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The appearance of the film by Alexei Matilda Matilda makes society think about the need to introduce censorship. This was stated by the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.
“It seems to me that films like that we are talking about should undergo good censorship. At least Matilda makes us think about it. There is no need to be afraid of it. From this, democracy does not fall, but, on the contrary, is exalted,” Yevkurov said.
The head of Ingushetia called for making more films that form traditional values and patriotic views. “Now, more than ever, we need films - not even a military, but civilian patriotism. And they should be a love for their homeland, a love of history. For young people and youth, you need films. Again, the topics of respect for the elders, care for the younger relationships. Raise the layer of interethnic relations. This is now necessary! And not Matilda,” Yevkurov said.
To doubt the admissibility of the show of the film of the authorities of Ingushetia, the presence of a "blasphemous attitude" towards the Russian emperor Nicholas II in it, the head of the republic noted. In addition, in his opinion, showing films with outright scenes does not fit into the Ingush mentality.
Prior to this, the Ingush cinema of the Friendship Cinema said they would refuse to show the film "Matilda" due to the presence of scenes in it, "contrary to religious canons and traditions of local residents who insult the feelings of believers, no matter what faith they belong." Meanwhile, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic reported that the decision to show the film in Ingushetia will be made taking into account the opinions of members of the Public Council under the regional department.
On Tuesday, Komsomolskaya Pravda published a letter to the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to the Minister of Culture of Medinsky with a request to ban Matilda rental in Chechnya . The head of Chechnya accused the teacher of "mockery of the feelings of believers" and "undermining the foundations."
In response to the Ministry of Culture, they said that the agency has no right to terminate the rental certificate of the film in certain regions. They invited Kadyrov to independently resolve this issue with local film distributors.
On Friday, Kadyrov said that the Matilda show would not be prohibited in the republic. “In Chechnya, they will not spend time watching the immoral, soulless and immoral in relation to their homeland,” he wrote.
According to the head of Chechnya, the Ministry of Culture gave the film a rental certificate, since budget money was spent on the shooting of the picture. “The Ministry of Culture will not go against himself,” he said. Nevertheless, Kadyrov believes that works of art that "contradict the interests of the state" should not receive budget financing, since there are topics that "for the sake of higher interests cannot be touched."
The teacher’s film is dedicated to the novel by Nicholas II with the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. The campaign against him began last fall the State Duma deputy from United Russia, a former prosecutor of the annexed Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya. She submitted a number of denunciations to the director, in which she stated 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, Poklonskaya demanded to verify the legality of spending budget funds allocated for the shooting of Matilda.