Posted on 01/27/2018 11:40:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
Armando Iannucci's movie was screened on Thursday and Friday in defiance of the culture ministry's ban. On Friday, police raided the Moscow movie theater Pioner, which screened Armando Iannucci's movie The Death of Stalin, banned in Russia by the culture ministry, news agency TASS reported.
By the time several police officers showed up at the theater, located in central Moscow, the 11:50 a.m. screening was already over.
A police source, quoted by TASS, said the theater could be fined for screening the movie, whose exhibition license was withdrawn on Tuesday just two days before it was scheduled to open.
Meanwhile, a 9:50 p.m. screening was still listed on the movie theater's website as of 7 p.m. Moscow time on Friday.
Pioner, owned by tycoon Alexander Mamut, along with Formula Kino and Cinema Park movie theater chains also screened the movie on Thursday. It claimed that at the time of the screening, the exhibition license was still valid, in accordance with the culture ministry's registry on the agency's website.
Early on Friday, there was no mention of the exhibition license in the registry.
Meanwhile, the culture ministry confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the exhibition license was withdrawn on Tuesday and the distributor, Volga, was immediately informed.
The Death of Stalin, a black comedy focused on partially fictional infighting in the Kremlin that followed the death of Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin in 1953, came under fire in Russia for allegedly distorting the country's history and making fun of its leaders.
Incidentally, two-and-a-half years ago, Pioner also screened Gaspar Noe's banned movie Love, saying it was part of a festival, and festival screenings didn't require an exhibition license.
“How can a person be considered a human if death is a reason for them to laugh? That is subhuman,” he told the Govorit Moskva radio station Wednesday. - The Moscow Times
oh the irony.
STALIN’S DEAD?!?!!
I’m writing a comedy called “The Death of Ryan”
At least they showed it.
That would have been impossible in the Soviet Union.
Liberals in this country would just love to do this to talk radio.
Putin’s men also crated the fake Trump Dossier and fooled one of England’s top counterintelligence men.
They can afford to let a movie be shown. It is small potatoes to the chaos they created in the US with the help of Steele, the Democrat Party, Fusion GPS/FBI wife, the leaders of the FBI and DOJ.
I would say that Stalin is having a good laugh at our expense while their longtime ally, the American Left, try to destroy our Constitution, Presidency, and eventually our country.
The fuzz probably viewed the movie before busting the theater.
I might have to check this movie out...Jason Isaacs is one of my favorite actors. As a peripheral point of trivia, one of the first Americans to learn of Stalin’s death was a young USAF radio operator named Johnny Cash :)
“I would say that Stalin is having a good laugh at our expense while their longtime ally, the American Left, try to destroy our Constitution, Presidency, and eventually our country.”
This is where Joe McCarthy says, “I told you so.” He tried to warn us and did his best to stop it, but the media and deep state of the early 1950s took him out.
Nailed it. Putin’s recent speech to antifa types in Sochi was full of Alinskyesque encouragement for world communist revolution. Absolutely disgusting but it was known the mask would come off eventually, never mind the fooled Putin/Assad worshipers at FR.
bump
Selective Stalinism is part of Russian society & politics to this day.
Kind of like “He was a murderous SOB but he was OUR murderous SOB!”.
Frankly, the Russians didn’t create chaos in the US election, they did what they always did. The DNC and the MSM colluded to make it chaos as an excuse for their failing candidate in the election and then accuse Trump of actual treason.
The worst fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
Trump should say that before he says, I will never appear before Mueller’s show trial mockery of our Constitution.
Considering that Dinesh D’Souza was arrested, we don’t have much room to talk.
Sounds like Monty Python’s “The Death of Mary Queen of Scots”
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