The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
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 ...
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Message Film, Marx Film, Česká televize
- Keyword: wrongful imprisonment, russian politics, show trial
- Cast: Oleh Sentsov, Vladimir Putin, Victor Yanukovich, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Jos Stelling