The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017)
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 ...
- Date of release
- 2017-04-06
- TMDB
- 3.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Askold Kurov
Casting
- Oleh Sentsov — Self
- Vladimir Putin — Self
- Victor Yanukovich — Self
- Wim Wenders — Self
- Agnieszka Holland — Self
- Jos Stelling — Self
- Krzysztof Zanussi — Self
- Marina Razbezhkina — Self
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