Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Directed byMike Lerner
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Produced byMike Lerner
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Havana Marking
StarringNadezhda Tolokonnikova
Maria Alyokhina
Yekaterina Samutsevich
CinematographyAntony Butts
Edited bySimon Barker
Esteban Uyarra
Music bySimon Russell
Production
company
Roast Beef Productions
Distributed byGoldcrest Films International
Release dates
  • 18 January 2013 (2013-01-18) (Sundance)
  • 10 June 2013 (2013-06-10)
Running time
88 minutes[1]
CountriesRussia
United Kingdom
LanguageRussian

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Russian: Показательный процесс: История Pussy Riot, romanized: Pokazatel'nyy protsess: Istoriya Pussy Riot, lit. 'Show Trial: The Pussy Riot Story') is a 2013 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.[2]

The HBO network subsequently bought the U.S. television rights to the film[3][4] The film aired on HBO on 10 June 2013.

The BBC showed the film on 21 October 2013[5] in its Storyville series of documentaries. Reviews have generally been generally positive.[6]

  1. ^ "PUSSY RIOT – A PUNK PRAYER (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  2. ^ Justin Lowe (19 January 2013). "Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer: Sundance Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  3. ^ Jay A. Fernandez (20 January 2013). "Sundance 2013: 'Pussy Riot' Doc to Air on HBO". Indiewire. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  4. ^ Jordan Hoffman (19 January 2013). "Sundance Review: Punk Rock Feminism and Orthodoxy Clash in 'Pussy Riot' Doc". film.com. MTV Networks. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  5. ^ "BBC Four – Storyville, 2013-2014, Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer". BBC. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
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