Van With Explosives Crashes Into Cinema to Protest Tsar Biopic (Video)

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Van With Explosives Crashes Into Cinema to Protest Tsar Biopic
Sep 4, 2017 — 14:19
— Update: 15:50
Yekaterinburg Entertainment Complex "Kosmos" Emergency Situations Ministry Press Service

A man rammed a vehicle rigged with gas canisters into a movie theater and concert hall in Yekaterinburg early on Monday, to oppose a new film depicting Tsar Nicholas' love affair, the E1 local media reported.

Footage of the incident showed the driver stepping out of a UAZ off-road van at the entrance to the Kosmos entertainment center before triggering an explosion.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OveEH-JaTPk

Continued: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/explosive-rigged-van-crashes-into-cinema-in-protest-of-controversial-tsar-biopic-58844

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It's amazing that this film showing a love affair by the young Nicholas who became/was a Czar before his marriage causes this uproar. The woman whom he allegedly had a love affair with did not seem that bad. Apparently Nicholas is cannonized by the Russian Orthodox Church; so maybe people see blasphemy in this OR if not that, Nationalists don't like what the movie says. The director's studio also had molotov type cocktails tossed at it last week.  There is quite a bit on this movie; of course, I believe the Communists executed Nicholas and his family.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-film-attacks-idUSKCN1BB2AF

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August 31, 2017 / 11:07 AM / 4 days ago
Arsonists attack building used by controversial Russian director

Reuters Staff

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Attackers set fire to a building used by a Russian director whose film about the last czar’s romance with a ballerina has been condemned by religious conservatives, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday.

A Molotov cocktail was thrown in through a window, igniting a fire in a building in the city of St Petersburg that houses, among other organizations, the studio of director Alexei Uchitel, the news agencies reported.

And:

Uchitel’s forthcoming film, called Matilda, is about a reputed love affair between Tsar Nicholas II, before his coronation, and ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska.

Some conservatives have called for the film to be banned, saying it besmirches the reputation of the late czar. The Russian Orthodox Church has designated him a saint. He and his family were executed soon after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.