Posted on 02/20/2020 7:42:46 PM PST by NorseViking
Ukraine’s film authority has banned the distribution of several movies over national security concerns, including a Russian-Ukrainian romantic comedy featuring Ukraine’s current president, it said Tuesday.
The Ukrainian state film agency said it banned a total of five movies in 2019, three of which were banned to comply with a request by Ukraine’s security service.
Two of the blacklisted movies are the decade-old French fantasy “Trouble at Timpetill” and the Hollywood action film “Machete.”
Ukraine’s film agency said it banned the movies because the former features French actor Gerard Depardieu and the latter features American martial artist Steven Seagal. Both veteran actors hold Russian passports and are banned from entering Ukraine as national security risks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the actor and comedian who swept to power last year as a political novice, stars in the third banned movie. Ukraine’s film agency said it banned the 2012 romcom “8 First Dates” because it features Russian actress and comedian Yekaterina Varnava in a supporting role.
The Ukrainian film agency said it also banned two short films made by two young Russian directors based on an expert commission’s ruling.
Ukraine began banning Russian films after Moscow annexed Crimea and conflict between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces broke out in the country’s east in 2014.
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Seagal is Russian?
I dunno, but he should be banned for being a bad actor.
He doesn’t even know what pi is.
His paternal grandparents were Russian-Jewish.
Indeed. I don’t think it would take a commission to come up with dozens of reasons to blacklist Seagal.
I find it difficult to be concerned about other country’s borders when so few of our Reps give a damn about our own.
Also, Seagal is REAL tight with Putin. Seagal is a special Russian goodwill ambassador to the U.S. (or something like that).
He is dual citizen.
“I dunno, but he should be banned for being a bad actor.”
Gotta hand it to him for being a Hollywood success, having had at one time (the same time) two wives and a pregnant girlfriend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal
Do business with Hunter Biden. Ban Steven Seagal movies.
Making Ukraine Ukraine Again.
Every time I hear about the border issue mainly by illegal aliens, I have a habit to post
Make Mexico, Mayan again!
And you can add kick out the Spanish invaders.
Gerard Depardieu wears Depends. Not because he has to, but because he wants to.
Seagal is pals with Putin and makes a lot of films in former eastern bloc countries. Hence the passport I guess. At one time when France raised the income tax to 75% Depardeau said hell no and Putin offered him citizenship in Russia at a better tax rate.
Back in the day I really enjoyed Depardieu movies. Very funny. But now I suspect I wouldn’t even bother to walk across the street to see one of his movies.
I used to catch them at an Indie movie house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A lifetime ago........
Had to look up who Depardieu is.
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