At the KARO.Art festival in Moscow, the screening of the film “Fairy Tale” directed by Alexander Sokurov, scheduled for 19:30 on Sunday, October 15, was canceled, RBC reports with reference to a message from the organizers on the VKontakte social network.
The director wrote in his Telegram channel that the Ministry of Culture prohibited showing the film at the event. Now the filmmakers are trying to find out the reason for this decision.
Sokurov admitted that this would be followed by a refusal to issue a distribution certificate for “Fairy Tale” “and an unspoken ban on showing all [его] cinematographic works created earlier.” “I am not just protesting against censorship – I am protesting against the violation of my constitutional right to freely communicate my works with my compatriots,” he wrote.
The action of “Tale” takes place in the afterlife, where Stalin, Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini meet. Everyone speaks their own language – German, English, Italian, Stalin – Georgian. The director himself previously said about his work: “This is a fairy-tale story, fantastic – a genre completely new to me – about the events of the Second World War. This is a pure fairy tale, everything is fiction. This is a completely new artistic act for me.”
Source: Rosbalt
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