With the Duma about the sovereign

The State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya sent a request to the Ministry of Criminal Procedure and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take measures to prevent insults of religious feelings of believers and desecrate Orthodox shrines of the Matilda plot line. 37 members of the lower house signed under the document, Poklonskaya reports .

“To the application to this request sent 100 thousand appeals and signatures of citizens about insulting their feelings,” the deputy writes. The application was hardly fitting in 13 boxes. ” Poklonskaya also attached to the document the information of the Accounts Chamber on the allocation to the creators of the state financing film in the amount of 280 million rubles.

The day before, the director of the film Alexei, the teacher said that he would not make any changes to Matilda and the trailer of the picture. “The picture is practically ready. It will be in this form,” the director said. “I will not bring any right to the trailer or the film.”

To the question of whether the director plans to show his film to all members of the Public Council at the Ministry of Culture, the teacher replied: “If we are asked to show the film in the public council when the rental begins, we will show with pleasure. But there will be no such show with the aim of“ we will not miss ”.

Since last fall, Poklonskaya submitted a number of denunciations to teachers. Claims of Unicorn were called by the film “Matilda”, dedicated to the novel by Nicholas II with Ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. Poklonskaya claims that "Russia is presented in the film as a country of gallows, drunkenness and fornication", and in addition, the picture insults "persons officially canonized," including Nicholas II. In this regard, the unicorn, in particular, demanded to verify the legality of the spending of budget funds allocated for the shooting of Matilda.

On June 21, Poklonskaya stated that the ROC parishioners, who watched the teacher’s film in closed shows organized by its creators, were excommunicated for six months from the participle in the church . The director himself called Poklonskaya’s statements about the closed shows of the film "Complete lies."

The Russian Orthodox Church is not approved, but attempts to prohibit its show are negative . On May 18, the chairman of the synodal department for interacting with society and the media of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Legoyda, said that he was bad to “prohibit something in art”. “The reaction to Poklonskaya’s statements is ambiguous. I don’t know her personally. Apparently, she is a very sincere person, with her ideas about how a believer should behave in a particular situation. It is important that people do not perceive the words of Natalia Poklonskaya or someone else as the position of the whole church,” he emphasized.

On June 29, Legoada called the “mistake” to the collection of signatures in the temples for the ban on the film “Matilda”. “I can understand what many do not like in the very directorial idea of ​​Matilda. He himself repeatedly spoke not only about the artist’s right, but also about the freedom of the viewer and the audience reaction (though it would be nice to watch the film for a start). At the same time, I consider the centralized collection of parishes in the diocese for the ban of the film,” Legoria said.