Movie about Tsar Nikolai II's love life sparked fury in Russia

[Pennywise]

Blasphemy, porn allegations, arson: How Russian Tsar love affair movie created furious debate

The most-discussed film in Russia – a dramatized story about the last Russian tsar, recently canonized and his love affair – has yet to even be released in the cinemas, but has nevertheless sparked a heated debate about the role played by religion in Russian society and the curtailment of artistic freedoms.
On Tuesday, some 100,000 Russian Orthodox believers in St. Petersburg walked in a solemn procession headed by the archpriest of the diocese, Metropolitan Barsanuphius. Among the red flags with a depiction of Prince Alexander Nevsky, a venerated saint of the Church, one could see a plain black-on-white banner declaring: “Matilda is a slap in the face of the Russian people.”

The banner was referring to ‘Matilda’, a movie which has been in the focus of heated debate for months, even though the general public is yet to see it. Featuring the tagline “The secret of the Romanovs,” it depicts a love affair between the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and Mathilde Kschessinska, a Russian prima ballerina, a lover to several men of the Russian royalty and eventually the wife of one of Nicholas’ cousins.

The costume drama was scheduled to be released in theaters in late October, but that remains in question, considering the amount of criticism the film currently faces, and even some cases of violence.

Mathilde Kschessinska (L), Emperor Nicholas II (R) © Wikipedia / Sputnik
As the Russian authorities refused to keep the movie from theaters, the fight against it became increasingly ugly and violent. In late August, somebody threw three petrol bombs into the window of Uchitel’s studio in St. Petersburg, an act that public critics of the film called “a provocation of the unbelievers.”

On Monday this week, somebody torched two cars parked in front of the Moscow office of a law firm representing the film’s director, leaving a note saying “Burn for Matilda.”

Full article: https://www.rt.com/news/403226-matil...al-porn-arson/

[ЛыSSый]

The most interesting thing in this clown patry is the ortodox radicals phenomenon. About movie and last tsar people will forget after month.

[St. Stepinac]

Yeah, those pseudo-Orthodox clowns from so-called "Christian state" certainly deserve the entire topic. And their redneck leader who was sentenced for murder and robbery of neighboring woman. Just a ridiculous alternative for ISIS.