Welcome to Chechnya

2020 107 min ★ 6.9 Documentary

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.

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Cast

Maxim Lapunov

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Olga Baranova

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David Isteev

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Vladimir Putin

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Ramzan Kadyrov

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Zelim Bakaev

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Details

Director

David France

Screenplay

David France

Tagline

"Inside the Russian Republic's deadly war on gays"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

HBO Documentary Films, Public Square Films, David France & Joy A. Tomchin Film, Ninety Thousand Words, Maylo Films, BBC Storyville, Doc Society

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

September 5, 2024

★ 7/10

At times this is quite an harrowing documentary to watch as the intimate style of photography illustrates well the persecution of homosexuality in the breakaway eponymous Russian Republic. With President Putin's administration in Moscow denying any systematic abuse of these people, it's left to the local bully-boy governor Ramzan Kadyrov to deny that there are any gay folks in Chechnya and if ther...