6.8
Tarnation
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“Inside the Russian Republic's deadly war on gays”
Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
January 26, 20201h 47mEN
6.8
50 votes
Overview
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
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David FranceWriters
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Russian
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HBO Documentary FilmsPublic Square FilmsDavid France & Joy A. Tomchin FilmNinety Thousand WordsMaylo FilmsBBC Storyville
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7.0At times this is quite an harrowing documentary to watch as the intimate style of photography illustrates well the persecution of homosexuality in the breakaway eponymous Russian Republic. With President Putin's administration in Moscow denying any systematic abuse of these people, it's left to the local bully-boy governor Ramzan Kadyrov to deny that there are any gay folks in Chechnya and if there are, then they are diluting the pure bloodlines and out to get out. The methods to which the thugs will go to attack their quarry are quite inventive. They use social media to find a victim then use…
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