Film Screening and Discussion: "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer"

poster for film Pussy Riot, A Punk Prayer
101 LeConte Hall

A film screening and discussion on Russia’s authoritarian turn.

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is a 2013 Russian-British documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film follows the court cases on the Russian feminist/anti-Putinist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot. Directed by Lerner and Pozdorovkin, the film featured publicly available footage of the court proceedings and interviews with the families of the band members, but no interviews with the band members themselves.

A free and public event, featuring history and pizza.

Research Area:
Russia and Soviet history

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