The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (movie)
- User score: 3.7
- Production country: Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
- Producer: Askold Kurov
- Production companies: Message Film, Marx Film, Česká televize
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 4/6/2017
- Run time: 75 min.
Movie description
August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...
