Overview: The film is a portrait of a young writer Alexander Sarapov (literary pseudonym of Bronsky) from a small closed city of Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsky kray. His work had a great influence on people close to him and aroused interest among the leading figures of cinema and literature.
Overview: August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...
