The teacher answered Kadyrov

Director Alexei Teacher is ready to show his painting “Matilda” to the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, who asks to ban its rental in the region. The teacher urged Kadyrov not to believe the criticism of the film from other people's words.

Earlier it became known that Kadyrovturned to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky with a request to exclude Chechnya from the Matilda rental certificate. State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, actively opposing the film of the teacher, said that "the heads of other regions prepared the same letters."

“They can only be banned in one case - when the laws of the Russian state are violated. - quotes the director "Interfax" . - There are examinations, established by responsible officials, state people who watched the film, that nothing was broken. I suggest Mr. Kadyrov, who doubt it not to write letters, I invite them to see and then talk. And personally, they will be convinced of whether it is necessary to ban or not. And to believe the words of the deputy ... Why take her word. ”

Interfax also reports that the Ministry of Culture confirmed the receipt of Kadyrov’s letter and said that they took into account his request

The premiere of the historical drama "Matilda" by Alexei Teacher about the novel by Emperor Nicholas II and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya was appointed on October 25, 2017.

Since the fall of last year, Poklonskaya has repeatedly turned to the prosecutor’s office with requests for checking the film for insulting the feelings of believers, since its main characters “are persons officially canonized”.

PS The possibility of excluding Chechnya from the rental certificate of the film “Matilda” was commented on by the First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Aristarchkhov: “If such a certificate is issued, then Ramzan Akhmatovich himself with local distributors should decide the issue of showing or a ban on the territory of the Chechen Republic. We have no right to give a rental certificate with the subsequent seizure of it from a separate region. ”