Starring: Mariya Alyokhina, Natalia Alyokhina, Mark Feygin, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Vladimir Putin
Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Running Time: 88 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: July 5th 2013
Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Running Time: 88 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: July 5th 2013
On February 21st 2012, five members of the Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot decided to put on a performance at Moscow’s Christ The Saviour Cathedral. While a service was in progress they went up to the altar – dressed in the band’s trademark balaclavas – and started to sing. While they were stopped by security, footage of the event was soon turned into a video called, ‘Punk Prayer – Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!’, which protested what they see as the increasingly oppressive regime of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Othodox Leader’s support for him. [Read more…]
