22.09.2016
The Finnish premiere of the documentary film Magnitsky Act - Behind the Scenes, directed by Andrei Nekrasov and co-produced by Illume, will be today in Kinopalatsi 9 at 18.30. The screening is part of the Helsinki International Film Festival.
More screenings will be held next week in WHS Teatteri Union in September 26 - 30 2016.
Thursday 22.9. at 18:30
KINOPALATSI 9
Kaisaniemenkatu 2, 00100 Helsinki
"Six years after his mysterious death in a Moscow prison cell, Sergei L. Magnitsky has become a byword for brutality in Putin’s Russia. Now, a documentary film that paints Mr. Magnitsky as an accomplice rather than a victim is generating a furor (…).
Screenings of the film have been canceled in Europe after threats of libel suits from William F. Browder, an American-born financier who fell afoul of the Russian government and hired Mr. Magnitsky, a lawyer and auditor, to investigate a vast tax fraud scheme after the government seized three of his Russian subsidiaries. The film asserts that the widely accepted version of Mr. Magnitsky’s death is wrong: that the police did not beat him before he died, and that he did not testify that the police had conspired to steal $230 million in fraudulent tax rebates. Indeed, the film says it was Mr. Browder who orchestrated the fraud.
Mr. Nekrasov is an experienced documentary maker whose work has sometimes been critical of the Russian government." Mark Lander, New York Times
Watch trailer here: https://player.vimeo.com/video/183294342
Info and tickets: http://hiff.fi/elokuvat/the-magnitsky-act-behind-the-scenes/
WHS screenings:
WHS TEATTERI UNION
Siltavuorenranta 18, 00170 Helsinki
Tickets 9€
Sep 26 2016 at 18
Sep 28 2016 at 18
Sep 30 2016 at 18
Info and tickets: http://www.teatteriunion.fi/portfolio/the-magnitsky-act/