The producers of a film intensely critical of Vladimir Putin’s Russia say a legal effort that has blocked it from being shown in Venice this week is the culmination of a long Russian campaign against the movie.
The film, The Antique, tells the story of Georgians who were deported from Russia in 2006 amid a crisis between the countries, and was scheduled to be screened in Venice today in the Giornate degli Autori, a film competition hosted during the Venice International Film Festival.
“We are in the middle of Europe, and we are under censorship,” director Rusudan Glurjidze told Semafor in her first interview since the screening was suspended.
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