Judas in October

"Juda Srebreniki." Photo from VK page "Forty Forters"

In Moscow, police officers detained seven Orthodox activists from the Forty Forty Organization at the October cinema, where there is a premiere show of the film directed by Alexei Master Matilda. It is reported by TASS.

The detainees were taken to the police department. "Administrative cases have been instituted against them under Article 20.2. Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for organizing or conducting a mass event)," the press service of the Moscow head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

Security measures at the cinema are strengthened, the police are on duty. There are few opponents of the film. Several people stood with icons and a portrait of Nicholas the Second, six people came with children and read prayers. One woman unfolded the poster "Matilda - slander of the anointed of God."

Activists of the Forty forty handed over to the premiere of the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky “30 srebreniki” for the director and said that they “nominated for the Judal Prize, which is awarded for outstanding achievements in Russophobia and the practice of traditional Russian values”.

On Monday in St. Petersburg, the solemn premiere of Matilda took place on the new stage of the Mariinsky Theater . It was attended by about a thousand guests. “The“ Petersburg nobility ”was invited to the premiere: officials and celebrities. But the list of guests is classified. It is known that their Moscow colleagues will not come, since soon there will be a display in Moscow,” said the representative of the event organizer, Sarafan PR agency. The show passed without incident. A small group of Orthodox activists picked and read prayers from the Mariinsky Theater.

The All -Russian premiere of Matilda will be held on October 26. The fierce campaign against the film was untied by the State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya. She states that “Russia is presented in the film as a country of gallows, drunkenness and fornication”, and in addition, the picture offends “persons officially canonized”, including Nicholas II. The unicorn, in particular, demanded to verify the legality of the spending of budget funds allocated for the shooting of Matilda. Since December 2016, Poklonskaya sent 43 denunciations to the Prosecutor General.

On October 16, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported that she had not found violations when financing the teacher’s film, and also did not find signs of extremism in the picture. Nevertheless, the next day, Poklonskaya recorded a video message, in which she called on the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika to initiate the feedback of the Matilda rental certificate . "The arson of cinemas, cars, attempts on explosions, calls for burning people, conducting" black lists ", threats, prayer standing of believers all over Russia against the film, rallies, caricatures, stirpotiza showing, ridicuating saints and Orthodox people, is what has already come from the Matilda project," said Poklonskaya.