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 ...
Director: Askold Kurov
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Oleh Sentsov as Self |
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Vladimir Putin as Self |
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Victor Yanukovich as Self |
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Wim Wenders as Self |
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Agnieszka Holland as Self |
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Jos Stelling as Self |
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Krzysztof Zanussi as Self |
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Marina Razbezhkina as Self |
| Production | Max Tuula | Producer |
| Camera | Askold Kurov | Director of Photography |
| Production | Izabela Wójcik | Producer |
| Production | Alena Müllerová | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Sorin Apostol | Music |
| Production | Dariusz Jabłoński | Producer |
| Production | Violetta Kamińska | Producer |
| Directing | Askold Kurov | Director |
| Production | Maria Gavrilova | Producer |
| Editing | Michał Leszczyłowski | Editor |
