The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

Apr 6, 2017

1h 15m

★ 3.7

Overview

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Message Film

Marx Film

Česká televize

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Cast

Self

Oleh Sentsov

Self

Vladimir Putin

Self

Victor Yanukovich

Self

Wim Wenders

Self

Agnieszka Holland

Self

Jos Stelling

Self

Krzysztof Zanussi

Self

Marina Razbezhkina

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