The film about Pussy Riot will be released in the United States

In November 2017, in the Cinemas of the United States, a documentary’s rental about the Russian Pussy Riot group “Speech and Punishment” (Act & Punishment) will begin, and the group itself will go on a US tour.

According to Deadline , the Russian company Antipode Sales & Distribution has sold the rights to the International Speech and Punishment Railing of the American company Cleopatra Entertainment , which also organizes the release of the film’s soundtrack.

The picture of the director and screenwriter Evgeny Mitta tells the story of Pussy Riot since the liberation of the members of the group of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina from the colony, where they spent a year and a half convicted in the case of hooliganism after their protrusion in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Previously, the film was shown at several international film festivals, participated in the main competition program of the Festival of Documentary Cinema "Artdokfest-2015".

“Speech and punishment” considers the Pussy Riot action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the historical and cultural perspective, drawing parallels with the well -known manifestations of female protest, for example, with the performance of the boyar Morozova. - It is said about the film by Evgeny Mitta on the site "Artdokfest" . “And this is not so much an analysis of the events of yesterday as a thoughtful attempt to figure out the nature of protest art, freeing up from excitement of relevance, momentary, news.”