Extremist (2025)
A young Russian artist makes an anti-war statement by swapping food labels with pacifist messages in a Moscow supermarket, leading to her arrest and the threat of a 10-year prison sentence.
- Date of release
- 2025-08-30
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 17m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alexander Molochnikov
Casting
- Viktoriya Miroshnichenko — Sasha
- Tinatin Dalakishvili — Sonya
- Liliyan Malkina — Galina
- Artur Smolyaninov — Investigator
- Dana Bjorka — Judge
- Tatyana Lukashenkova — Cashier
Interesting facts
Extremist is a 2025 short drama film written and directed by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Molochnikov. The 17-minute film dramatizes events inspired by the real-life case of Aleksandra Skochilenko and follows a young artist whose act of protest, in which she replaces supermarket price tags with anti-war messages, leads to her arrest and prosecution.
Production
Extremist was written and directed by Aleksandr Molochnikov as a Columbia University student film project, Jean Chapiro is credited as a producer.
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