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The minister intervened in hysteria
The Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky is outraged by the "intentionally smashed hysteria" around the film by Alexei Teacher "Matilda". The head of the department wrote about this on Twitter.
“Of course, it is not“ cinema refusal ”(show the picture. - Ed.), - Medinsky noted.“ The situation is outraged by the deliberate hysteria around the principle of a regular feature film. ”
At the same time, the minister expressed dissatisfaction with the publication of Interfax "Refusal" Formula Kino "to show" Matilda "overwhelmed the bowl of the patience of Medinsky," released on Tuesday evening. “Some journalists have such a job: to come up with the thesis and declare it from someone else's name. Even give it to the headline. And then even the most respectable media, without oververting, quote the“ primary source -fantaser, ”Medinsky wrote.
The minister also condemned State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who unleashed the campaign for the ban on the film. “I don’t know what considerations the respected Ms. Poklonskaya is guided by, starting and supporting this whip. Maybe from a pure heart. All the more, it’s not ready to unravel the motivation of different-sized“ activists ”-the commissioners who are brazenly calling themselves“ Orthodox ”. I often reproaches me in unnecessary conservatism. And here is how the conservative I want to say: similar self-proclaims “activists” discredit both state cultural policy and church, ”the Medinsky statement, published on the Ministry of Culture’s website, said.
The minister asked the leadership of law enforcement agencies to ensure the compliance with the rule of law, to strictly suppress the pressure on the state and the film business from the unbelievable "activists" with their socially dangerous methods for imposing their beliefs. "
Medinsky, who had already watched Matilda, assured that in the film "there is nothing offensive either for the memory of Nicholas II or for the history of the Russian monarchy."
State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin believes that without the presence of significant evidence, one cannot see a direct connection between the position of Poklonskaya and the actions of the opponents of Matilda. “To give such estimates, you need to have an evidence base in the first place. And proceed from the fact that this is a very serious accusation,” Medinsky commented on Volodin.
Poklonskaya herself said that "the director’s former partners post information about the replacement of the script, inappropriate to use budget funds, violations of copyright in creating the film" Matilda ", as well as the provision of false documents for receiving a rental certificate." She again expressed doubts that the rental certificate was issued legally. "Cinemas and television channels that respect the feelings of people and do not want to be used by the creators of the incomprehensible project" Matilda ", among the creators of which the native of Western Ukraine, where the Euromaidan is implemented, refuse to show the film, having a full right. And in everything the" guilty "Poklonskaya," the deputy wrote .
Meanwhile, the State Duma deputies Irina Rodnina and Oksana Pushkin sent a request to the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which they are asked to check for the extremism of the "Christian state" and "forty forty" organization. "At the moment, it is necessary to state that in the situation of inexplicable inaction of law enforcement agencies, religious extremists and the antisocial radical elements from threats and intimidation, which were comparing them, have moved to the methods of direct terror previously promised in their declarations," the document says. Rodnina and Pushkin emphasize that the prevailing and joint formations of nationalists and anti -Semites, hiding behind the slogans of the protection of the Christian faith and values, in fact, have long and impunity create terror and violence.
On Tuesday, the head of the State Duma Committee on Culture Stanislav Govorukhin said that the Matilda show will be held in the lower house on October 26 as part of the film club. At the same time, Govorukhin said that Poklonskaya "out of good motives woke all the obscurantist forces and caused damage to it."
On Tuesday, in one of the largest in Russia, the united network of cinema “Cinema Park” and “Formula Cinema” said they were refusing to show the film “Matilda” because of the “illegal actions” of the opponents of the film and the threats chain management. At the same time, it was emphasized that the network still remain outside the issues of politics and religion. "As the largest in terms of the number of cinemas and geography, we simply cannot endanger our many visitors," said the head of the network Roman Linin.
On Tuesday, the head of the Synodal Department for Relations with Society and the Media, Vladimir Legoyda, said that he had condemned the acts of violence related to the film "Matilda", could not proceed from believers. “We condemned, condemn, and we will condemn the actions of pseudo -religious radicals, no matter how religion they hide behind, because such actions are equally alien to the worldview of any believer,” the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church emphasized.
At the same time, Legoyda urged not to equalize the protests with similar episodes that take place in the legal field. "The position of the Orthodox community, people who pray in connection with the release of the film" Matilda "or send appeals to those on whom the decision on the rental depends, and acts of demonstrative violence - phenomena from different moral galaxies," he said.
On Monday, in Moscow, near the Office of the Bar Assistance Office, PEN & Paper, where ex-Senator Konstantin Dobrynin, representing the interests of the teacher, has been burning, three unknown people burned two cars . Near the burned cars, the attackers scattered the leaflets "burn for Matilda."
Dobrynin accused Poklonskaya of provoking arson. “While Poklonskaya tells everyone about some claims of the relatives of the Holy Tsar and is trying to ban the film, her supporters continue to throw Molotov cocktails and burn,” the lawyer wrote. “In any case, we will ask questions to the deputy of the State Duma of Poklonskaya.”
This is the third arson, presumably committed by the opponents of Matilda. On the night of August 31, in St. Petersburg, two unknown people threw the Molotov building with the Molotov Building Studio , which houses the Rock teacher. The flame was quickly extinguished. The police started a case of hooliganism. The media connected the incident with the closed show "Matilda", held in the city the day before.
On September 4, in Yekaterinburg, the 39-year-old Orthodox fanatic Denis Murashov crashed into the front doors of the cinema hall "Cosmos" on his UAZ, after which he set fire to the car and escaped. The flame was transferred from the car to the building; The entrance to the "Cosmos" was completely burned out. Murashov was soon detained. He explained his act with protest against the release of Matilda on the screens. On September 6, the arsonist was arrested. Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code (intentional damage to property by arson) threatens him to five years in the colony.
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.