The director of the film “Matilda” Alexey Uchitel plans to file complaints against Poklonskaya and Orthodox activists

Russian director Alexei Uchitel is preparing to send two statements to the Prosecutor General's Office regarding State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya and representatives of public organizations criticizing his film “Matilda”. the TASS agency about this The Teacher told .

“We are preparing a legal response to Poklonskaya and social activists. “In the near future, we will send two statements to the Prosecutor General’s Office, one will concern Poklonskaya personally, the second will concern people who are sending letters to cinemas calling on them to refuse to distribute my film,” the director explained.

Earlier, activists of the organization “Christian State - Holy Russia” sent letters to Russian cinemas demanding that they refuse to release the film “Matilda”, since, in their opinion, the film “defames the Saints and provokes a civil war.” “Any banner, poster, or advertising leaflet with information about the distribution of the film “Matilda” will be considered as your desire to humiliate the Saints of the Orthodox Church and a provocation to the “Russian Maidan,” the activists warned. The authors of the message threaten to use “the most radical methods of struggle” if cinemas still decide to show “Matilda.”

The activists' threats were sent after the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Natalya Poklonskaya, demanded that the Prosecutor General's Office prosecute the filmmakers