Pussy riot on trial.

AuthorRemington, Jess
PositionBriefly Noted - Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer - Movie review - Brief article

"People, let me remind you, this isn't a theater," says a Russian judge as she imposes a sentence of two years behind bars on the now internationally famous feminist punk group Pussy Riot. The scene appears near the end of Maxim Pozdorovkin and Mike Lerner's 90-minute documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. It's ironic, since what got the women in court was less a crime than an act of theater.

Pussy Riot is a guerrilla performance art group whose members were arrested in 2012 for holding an impromptu protest in the country's main house...

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