This documentary shows how human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev digs up what the current Russian leaders had rather forget: victims of Stalin’s regime of terror. He is arrested and imputed, so they can silence him.
If it is up to the current Russian regime, the infamous episodes of Soviet history are ignored. This much is clear from this disconcerting portrait of human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev, who used to head the Karelian department of the now dissolved Nobel Prize-winning human rights organisation Memorial. After years of investigation, in the coniferous forests of Karelia in Northwest Russia, Dimitriev finds a mass grave containing thousands of bodies of people who were secretly executed in 1937 during Stalin’s 'Great Terror'. This gets him into trouble with the authorities, who want to silence him via a vague imputation.
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Zeppers Film & TV
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Evangelische Omroep (EO)
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Mokum Filmdistributie
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FeverFilm
Gouden Kalf nominees
Beste Lange Documentaire (2023)
Jessica Gorter
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