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Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky advised TASS to write about the "crop of grain and new construction sites", and not about the film by Alexei Matilda, Flashnord reports . So the official reacted to the question of the agency’s correspondent about the picture, the deputy Natalya Poklonskaya actively opposes the show.
"TASS agency needs to write about grain crops, about district dk, about new construction sites, about wonderful films that are shot by our talented directors, that we will beat the cash register record since 1991 this year. And you all about Matilda write! Soon Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky will begin to be nervous about this, you understand. "Iolanta" will present a claim, there is a positive image of Matilda, another Matilda.
Medinsky had in mind the opera Tchaikovsky, where one of the characters, the Duke of Robert, sings the famous aria "who can compare with my Matilda."
Matilda received a rental certificate, the ministry commission carefully watched the film, and did not find any violations of the current legislation in it. Well, how much can you shift from empty to empty? Write about the collection of grains! ”, Medinsky added, leaving the briefing.
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 former prosecutor of the annexed Crimea 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.
The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov also spoke out against the picture. First, he asked Medinsky to ban Matilda rental in the republic. However, then Kadyrov said that the show would not be prohibited, since "in Chechnya they will not spend time watching a immoral, soulless and immoral film in relation to their homeland."
On Friday, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said that the appearance of the film "Matilda" forces society to think about the need to introduce censorship . “It seems to me that films similar to the one we are talking about should undergo good censorship,” he said. “There is no need to be afraid of this. Democracy does not fall from this, but, on the contrary, is exalted.” The head of Ingushetia called for making more films that form traditional values and patriotic views.