Paul
Goble
Staunton, January 26 – There is no
censorship in Russia, the constitution declares and Russian officials insist;
but the regime has many ways to block films, not only by declaring them banned
in Russia – that has happened in at least three cases -- but also by refusing
to issue them the license to be shown – something that has happened to many more.
The Rosbalt news agency provides a
list of the three that have been banned outright and then a selection of six
others that it has refused to give a license to and thus effectively banned.
Collectively, these films show even more than “The Death of Stalin,” what the
Kremlin is most concerned about preventing Russians from seeing (rosbalt.ru/like/2018/01/24/1676895.html):
·
“Child
44” – a 2015 US film about the tracking down of a serial murderer in Stalin’s
time.
·
“Clip”
– a 2012 Serbian film about a dissolute teenager in Serbia.
·
“Love”
– a 2015 French-Belgian film that the Russian cultural ministry said featured “numerous
scenes of a pornographic nature.”
·
“The
Interview” – a 2014 US film about two journalists who get involved in trying to
interview North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.
·
“Borat”
– a 2006 US film about a Kazakh journalist dispatched to the United States to
report on life there. After initially being banned, it was approved for
distribution via DVD and Blue Ray.
·
“Five
Days in August” – a 2009 Finnish film about the Russian invasion of Georgia in
2008.
·
“Charlie
Wilson’s War” – a 2006 US film about an American congressman who works to get
Washington to supply anti-aircraft missiles to the anti-Soviet Afghan mujahidin.
·
“Ordered
to Forget” – a 2014 Russian film about Stalin’s deportation of the Chechens and
Ingush in 1944.
·
“Russia
88” – a 2009 Russian quasi-documentary film about skinheads in the Russian
Federation. Formally, it was licensed, but Rosbalt says it has never been shown
in a theater.
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