Formula Kino claims that it has already informed the police about threats from Orthodox activists because of Matilda.

The united chain of cinemas "Cinema Park" and "Formula Kino" has already sent information to law enforcement agencies about threats from Orthodox activists because of the film "Matilda", PR told RBC. Director Alexandra Artamonova

She said that in Stavropol cinemas received threats on September 6, in Yekaterinburg on September 4, and in Chelyabinsk on August 28.

“The text of the letter spoke about possible arson, a potential threat to the lives of our visitors,” Artamonova said, noting that for each such letter, cinemas wrote a statement to law enforcement agencies.

According to Fontanka, State Duma deputies Oksana Pushkina and Irina Rodnina sent requests to FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and Internal Affairs Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev asking them to check the “orgy of hooligans and extremists” opposing the film.

“You know the organizers of this growing unpunished bacchanalia of hooligans and extremists, demonstrating absolute disregard for the rights and freedoms of citizens, including in terms of religion, systematically and consciously destabilizing public order in large cities of Russia,” the request says.

On September 12, the Formula Kino and Cinema Park cinema chains announced that they would refuse to show Matilda due to threats from Orthodox activists. After this, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said that he was outraged by “the situation of deliberately whipping up hysteria around, in principle, an ordinary feature film.”

The release of the film by Alexei Uchitel is scheduled for October 26. “Matilda” tells about the relationship between Emperor Nicholas II and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. One of the most prominent critics of the film was MP Natalya Poklonskaya; threats to cinemas were sent on behalf of the organization “Christian State - Holy Rus'”.

On August 31, in St. Petersburg, unknown persons threw Molotov cocktails at the Rock studio directed by Uchitel; on September 11, in the center of Moscow, they burned two cars parked near the office of the company where the filmmaker’s lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin works. Leaflets with the inscription “Burn for Matilda” were scattered next to the cars.