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 ...

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  Oleh Sentsov

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  Vladimir Putin

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  Victor Yanukovich

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  Wim Wenders

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  Agnieszka Holland

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  Jos Stelling

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  Krzysztof Zanussi

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  Marina Razbezhkina

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