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Pussy Versus Putin
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Pussy Versus Putin
| image = Pussy versus Putin Film Frame, Pussy Riot Performance On the Trolleybus Roof 2011.jpg
| caption = Still frame of Pussy Riot performance on the trolleybus roof in Moscow
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| writer = Gogol's Wives
| director = Gogol's Wives
| starring = Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Maria Alyokhina
Yekaterina Samutsevich
Pyotr Verzilov
Vladimir Putin
Andrew Tolokonnikov
| country = Russia
| language = Russian
| producer = Gogol's Wives Production
Ilya Zaslavskiy (Associate Producer, Free Speech LLC)
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| cinematography =
| runtime = 63 minutes
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'Pussy versus Putin' is a 2013 Russian documentary film by the film collective Gogol's Wives chronicling the history of the group Pussy Riot and their struggle with the political regime in Russia. The film received the NTR IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the 2013 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.[http://seance.EN/blog/reportazhi/russkij-fokus/ Russian focus the magazine of the Session]
The one-hour film includes sequences in which group members discuss their political aims, footage of their guerrilla-style performances during the run-up to the 2012 Russian presidential election as well as the intimidation and physical harassment they face, shot from behind bars and inside prison vans.
See also
*'Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer', another 2013 documentary about Pussy Riot
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