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A fictional film based on the true accounts of human rights abuse in a Mordovian prison.
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00:00The members of all-girl punk band Pussy Riot finally discover their fate today,
00:05where the Moscow judge said to deliver a verdict in their trial.
00:09The women musicians are all on trial, accused of inciting religious hatred in a case that's caused a storm not only among the Russian public, but also certainly abroad.
00:17Now that demonstration took the form of a so-called punk rock prayer, in which they called on the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Vladimir Putin.
00:26The prosecution is insisting on a three-year jail sentence, saying that the girls have severely offended those who were at the Christ of the Xavier Cathedral at the moment of their performance.
00:36The call for clemency was repeated by President Putin, the man who was the target of the protest.
00:41What happened in the church was wrong, in his opinion, that these three women shouldn't be judged too harshly.
00:48The court deems that Tlokornikova is found guilty and given two years, a two-year jail sentence.
00:58Someone's shouting, shame, shame.
01:10Come in, my dear.
01:12Come in, my dear.
01:18How long have you been sentenced in the colony?
01:22Two years.
01:23Two years can be a very long time, Nadia.
01:28People usually change their minds.
01:36This is a place of correction, and I'm here to help.
01:41I can help you get paroled.
01:42But you have to work with me.
01:46We can solve this together.
01:51Cigarette?
01:59If you want to get paroled as soon as possible, you have to work with me.
02:02Confess your guilt.
02:07I will only work the eight hours a day required by the labor code.
02:12You should know something, Nadia.
02:22We have broken stronger wheels than yours.
02:24Mordovia greeted me with the words of the deputy chief of the penal colony,
02:41Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov.
02:43You should know that when it comes to politics,
02:58I am a Stalinist.
03:04My brigade in the sewing shop works 16 to 17 hours a day,
03:17from 7.30 a.m. to 12.30 a.m.
03:22What really matters is fulfilling your quota.
03:26If you don't,
03:26you work overtime.
03:34Prisoners submit petitions to work on weekends.
03:39These petitions are written under orders of the administration,
03:42under pressure from the prisoners that help enforce it.
03:45Not one of the monkeys in the residents know that they're busyling.
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04:01Can you tell us why you have to 있었 instead of killing us?
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04:05Is a father's honest lady that struck us simultaneously.
04:07Your loader was at last sight from the local union.
04:09We have conferal,
04:10and where can you tell us whether to kill us the family that considers actors,
04:12Fuck!
04:42Fuck!
05:12Once, a 50-year-old woman asked to go back to the residential zone at 8 p.m. instead
05:34of 12.30 a.m. so she could go to bed at 10 p.m. and get eight hours of sleep just once
05:40a week. She was feeling ill. She had high blood pressure. In response, they held a unit meeting
05:49in order to take the woman down, insult her and humiliate, branding her a parasite.
06:10In response, they had high blood pressure.
06:12In response, they were a fine blood pressure.
06:15In response, the woman's deepest pressure is done.
06:20In response, the woman has had a female blood pressure.
06:24In response, the woman's biggest burden, whose life can't be able to treat her.
06:28In response, the woman's deepest pressure is not only about her.
06:34Let's do it.
07:04New seamstresses couldn't keep up.
07:14They were undressed and forced to sew naked.
07:25The inmates in charge of the brigades as well as their senior members are the only ones
07:30tasked with depriving fellow inmates' rights, all on the orders of the administration.
07:52The pigs are scared to touch you themselves.
07:54They want to do with the hands of the inmates.
08:01Are you sad, my dear?
08:08It hurts me that the people I care for are forced to suffer.
08:16I make these doors when our suffering becomes unbearable.
08:23It was the year of fire and smoke.
08:30We never expected it to come.
08:37Wildfires were approaching the colony wars.
08:41But we had to continue to work.
08:48We worked to fill our quarters.
08:54Due to the smoke, we couldn't see two meters in front of us.
09:01But covering our faces in wet handkerchiefs, we were all going to work nonetheless.
09:09We were so horribly hungry, we started to write diaries in order to document the horror of what was happening to us.
09:32When the fires were finally put out, camp security took our diaries so that our writings couldn't make it to the outside.
09:49Nadia, when the word spirit touches you, do not expect its touch to be painless.
10:04But what's missing?
10:08Something's missing.
10:10I can feel it.
10:13There is always something missing.
10:20It's sacrifice.
10:23It's the one we always miss.
10:43...
10:55...
10:57...
11:04...
11:07...
11:08...
11:09...
11:11Let me help you.
11:41The girls asked me to talk to you.
11:47We know you have lawyers.
11:49We need your help.
11:59I read about what you did in Moscow.
12:03It was heroic.
12:05I can't.
12:07It will only make things worse.
12:11It cannot get any worse than this.
12:17Bring this.
12:19The living and working condition violations at PC-14 are endless.
12:25However, my main and important grievance is that the colony administration prevents any complaints or claims.
12:31Or claims regarding conditions at PC-14 from leaving colony walls by the harshest means available.
12:37from leaving colony walls by the harshest means available.
13:13You probably don't have any friends left.
13:19You probably don't have any friends left.
13:29They are falling like flies.
13:31You're a monster.
13:35You're a monster.
13:37I only asked you to respect the labor code.
13:41Oh yeah.
13:42You asked me.
13:43But I didn't know that the dead could speak.
13:47You are always going to be punished.
13:48You are always going to be punished.
13:49Unless you start behaving differently.
13:50Unless you start behaving differently.
13:51You are always going to be punished.
13:52Unless you start behaving differently.
13:53You are always going to be punished.
13:54unless you start behaving differently Than General Tlokounikova.
13:55And General Tlokounikova.
13:56Treat her like the old time youfeed to
14:14You are always going to be punished, unless you start behaving differently with the Tolokonikova.
14:23Treat her like the old timers used to treat you.
14:27Were you beaten? Of course you were.
14:31Did they rip you? Of course they did.
14:37Did they fuck you up? You know the answer!
14:41We are all just here to serve our purpose and move on with our lives.
14:49Don't make it difficult for yourselves.
15:05The administration feels untouchable.
15:11It heedlessly oppresses prisoners with growing severity.
15:17I couldn't understand why everyone kept silent until I found myself faced with the avalanche of obstacles that fall on the prisoner who decides to speak out.
15:29Complaints simply do not leave the prison.
15:35On May 2013, my lawyer Dmitri Deans filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office.
15:41In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitri Deans filed a complaint about the conditions at PC14 with the prosecutor's office.
16:11You know what this is?
16:20This is my balls and your fucking head!
16:24Did you ever think that a death threat would go unnoticed when we already have her lawyers up our ass?
16:30Did your fat fucking head ever think about that?
16:41I'm trying to run in this prison. You couldn't run a pig for me if you tried.
17:11Beginning Monday, 23rd September. I'm going on hunger strike. This is an extreme method, but I am convinced that it is my only way out of my current situation.
17:41The Penal Colony Administration refuses to hear me, but I, in turn, refuse to back down from my demands.
17:50I will not remain silent, designed to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
18:09I demand that the Colony Administration respect human rights.
18:16I demand that the Colony Administration respect human rights.
18:32I demand that the Mordovia camp function in accordance with the law.
18:39I demand that the Mordovia camp function in accordance with the law.
18:55I demand that we be treated like human beings, not slaves.
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