Pussy versus Putin

Pussy vs. Putin
Genre	Documentary
Created by	Gogol's Wives [1]
Screenplay by	Gogol's Wives
Directed by	Gogol's Wives Ilya Zaslavsky
Starring	Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Maria Alyokhina Yekaterina Samutsevich Pyotr Verzilov Vladimir Putin Andrew Tolokonnikov
Country of origin	Russia
Original language(s)	Russian
Production
Producer(s)	Gogol's Wives Production
Running time	63 minutes
Release
Original release	2013

Pussy versus Putin is a 2013 Russian documentary film by the film collective Gogol's Wives chronicling the history of the group Pussy Riot and their struggle with the political regime in Russia. The film received the NTR IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the 2013 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.^[2]

The one-hour film includes sequences in which group members discuss their political aims, footage of their guerrilla-style performances during the run-up to the 2012 Russian presidential election as well as the intimidation and physical harassment they face, shot from behind bars and inside prison vans.^[3]

• Scenes
• 
  2011 (Moscow) — Pussy Riot performance on the trolleybus roof in Moscow
• 
  2011 (Moscow Metro) — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is taken into police custody
• 
  2012 (Red Square, Moscow) — Pussy Riot Performance at Lobnoye Mesto

See also

• Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, another 2013 documentary about Pussy Riot

References

1. Russian focus - the magazine of the Session
2. Frost, Caroline (17 December 2013). "Documentary: 'Pussy Versus Putin' Gives Insider's View Of The Cost Of Taking On The Might Of The Kremlin". Huffington Post. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
3. MacNab, Geoffrey (20 November 2013). "Scenes Putin doesn't want you to see". The Independent. Retrieved 17 June 2015.

External links

• Pussy versus Putin at the Internet Movie Database
• ovideo.ru
• Russian film about the band Pussy Riot received the award in Amsterdam
• Review of Anna Narinsky
• Review Marat Gelman
• idfa.nl