Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. Since 2012, a series of repressive laws were passed by the Government labelling everyone who publicly disagreed with the official narrative as "foreign agent", a traitor of Russia. In these circumstances, a group of independent Russian media and activists with two Nobel Peace Prize winners Dmitriy Muratov of "Novaya gazeta", and NGO "Memorial" among them are trying to resist and continue their work. Right after the invasion, another series of repressive laws is passed and overnight their work becomes virtually impossible. The journalists and activists are threatened with long prison sentences and forced to make difficult moral choices in the midst of total war censorship: should they stay or leave the country, should they go to jail or save their team, should they adapt to the new reality or stay true to their principals and close their media?

Release:

March 07, 2024

Original language:

Russian

Production country:

Germany

Producer company:

Anonymous Production
Filmpunkt
Justice for Journalists Foundation
Novaya Gazeta

Spoken languages:

English
Russian

Askold Kurov

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