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Stalls and armchairs - everything is in full swing
The head of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Stanislav Govorukhin, called the "dark forces" of the opponents of the film by Alexei Teacher "Matilda" compared them to the militants of the Islamic State. This is reported by Interfax.
“It seems to me that all the dark forces, clicked, crazy, vandals, obscurantists have revived - the cars set fire to innocent citizens, the truck crashed into a cinema. The mini -ISIS begins,” Govorukhin said at a meeting of the committee.
The first deputy chairman of the Committee, Vladimir Bortko, said that the reasons not to show the film "No and cannot be." According to Bortko, he discussed the situation around the picture with deputy Natalya Poklonskaya. "I said: why are you doing this? She says - what are you doing with them? I said - I am with the State Duma, and I would advise you to be quieter. She said: I will act as it tells me ... How something tells her," the deputy said.
The head of the department of external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Ilarion, said that the situation around Matilda is similar to disputes about the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. “Then they tried to put us all in front of the dilemma: you and the“ Charl ”or you and the terrorists who shot the editorial staff? Now they are trying to put us before the choice: either you support“ Matilda ”, or you and those who call to burn the cinemas,” the hierarch noted. “I, for example, are unconditionally and categorically against any calls for violence, any threats addressed to whom Whether it was the director, actors, distributors, etc. I also opposed the ban on the show of censorship according to the Soviet model.
According to Hilarion, in the film the images of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fedorovna are distorted. "The anniversary of the revolution is an occasion to prayer and the commemoration of innocently injured, and not to continue to spat on their memory," the metropolitan noted.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs officially stated that the police are ready to promote film distributors and local authorities to ensure security when demonstrating the film "Matilda". "Additional measures to ensure law enforcement, as well as the safety of buildings and property of film rolling organizations will be developed and applied by the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, depending on the current operational situation and the information received about possible illegal actions," the press service of the department said.
On Tuesday, 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 Wednesday, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky asked the leadership of law enforcement agencies " to harshly stop the pressure on the state and the film business from the unbuttoned" activists "with their socially dangerous methods for imposing their beliefs." "Similar self -proclaimed" activists "discredit both state cultural policy and church,” the minister said in a statement.
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."
Medinsky made a statement after on Tuesday in one of the largest united cinema network Sinema Park and Formula Cinema , they refused to show Matilda’s film because of the “unlawful actions” of the opponents of the film and the threat of the network leadership.
Opponents of the film have already committed arson three times. 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. 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. 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."