Director Alexander Sokurov submitted documents to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation to obtain a distribution certificate for the screening of the film “Fairy Tale”. This was reported by TASS.
“I hope we will be understood, we will get permission and we will be able to show the film, which has been shown, has been shown and continues to be shown in many countries around the world. “I really hope so,” said the director.
He added that the film will soon be screened at film festivals in Tashkent and Latin America.
“This film was based on personal advice and impressions of prominent people in Russia. I mean Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovski, Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyn and some of our statesmen. <…> I really hope that we can show this work to the audience. “I really hope and I really want it,” the filmmaker emphasized.
According to the plot of “Fairy Tale”, four people meet in the afterlife: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and Churchill. On the eve of divine judgment, the heroes enjoy memories of their own lives and the power they had and are not ready to part with.
“Tales” premiered at the Locarno Film Festival on August 6.
Previously Sokurov he was angry Roskomnadzor’s ban on showing the Yakut film “Aita”.