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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer poster
Original title
Показательный процесс: История Pussy Riot
Directed by
Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Genre
documentary film
Country
Russia, United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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This documentary shows the trial of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot. It uses courtroom footage and interviews with the families of the band members.

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What happens

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Russian: Показательный процесс: История Pussy Riot, romanized: Pokazatel'nyy protsess: Istoriya Pussy Riot, lit. 'Show Trial: The Pussy Riot Story') is a 2013 documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film follows the court cases on the Russian feminist/anti-Putinist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot. Directed by Lerner and Pozdorovkin, the film featured publicly available footage of the court proceedings and interviews with the families of the band members, but no interviews with the band members themselves. The HBO network subsequently bought the U.S. television rights to the film The film aired on HBO on 10 June 2013. The BBC showed the film on 21 October 2013 in its Storyville series of documentaries. Reviews have generally been generally positive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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