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 clarency 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 Tilakornikiva 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.
02:03I will only work the eight hours a day, required by the labor code.
02:19You 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 Kuprianov.
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, you work overtime.
03:28Prisoners submit petitions to work on weekends.
03:39These petitions are written under orders of the administration
03:41and under pressure from the prisoners that help enforce it.
03:58Do it all to the prisoners that help each other's work.
04:03Don't worry.
04:04You can't listen to the prisoners.
04:05I'm sorry.
04:06You're not sick.
04:07I'm sorry.
04:07I'm not sick.
04:08I'm sorry.
04:10You know I'm sorry for this.
04:13It's funny.
04:14I'm sorry.
04:15I'm sorry.
04:17I'm sorry.
04:18I'm sorry.
04:19Come on.
04:20I'm sorry.
04:21I'm sorry.
04:23I'm sorry.
04:24No.
04:25No.
04:25No.
04:27No.
06:28Let's do it.
06:51New seamstresses couldn't keep up.
07:13They 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 tasked with depriving fellow inmates' rights.
07:32All on the orders of the administration.
07:37The pigs are scared to touch you themselves.
07:53They want to do with the hands of the inmates.
07:56Are you sad, my dear?
08:18It hurts me that the people I care for are forced to suffer.
08:27I make these doors when our suffering becomes unbearable.
08:36It was the year of fire and smoke.
08:44We never expected it to come.
08:49Wildfires were approaching the colony walls.
08:57But we had to continue to work.
09:00We worked to fill our quarters.
09:03Due to the smoke, we couldn't see two meters in front of us.
09:10But covering our faces in wet handkerchiefs, we were all going to work nonetheless.
09:17We were so horribly hungry, we started to write diaries in order to document the horror of what was happening to us.
09:32So that our writings couldn't make it to the outside.
09:49Nadia, when the world's spirit touches you, do not expect its touch to be painless.
10:01But what's missing?
10:06Something's missing.
10:09I can feel it.
10:11There is always something missing.
10:16It's sacrifice.
10:21It's the one we always miss.
10:25It's the one we always miss.
11:35And you let me help you.
11:45The girls asked me to talk to you.
11:47We know you have lawyers.
11:49We need your help.
11:51I 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.
12:17The living and working condition violations at PC14 are endless.
12:35However, my main and important grievance is that the colony administration prevents any complaints
12:53or claims regarding conditions at PC14 from leaving colony walls by the harshest means available.
13:09We don't want to hurt ourselves.
13:13Again, with Tonya Valikova.
13:15You probably don't have any friends left.
13:31They're falling like flies.
13:33You're a monster.
13:35I only asked you to respect the labor code.
13:37Oh, yeah.
13:38You asked me.
13:39But I didn't know that the dead could speak.
13:41I didn't know that the dead could speak.
13:43But I didn't know that the dead could speak.
13:53I didn't know that the dead could speak.
13:59I didn't know that the dead could speak.
14:06You are always going to be punished unless you start behaving differently with the
14:20Tolokonikova.
14:21Treat her like the old timers used to treat you.
14:27Were you beaten?
14:29Of course you were.
14:31Did they rip you?
14:33Of course they did.
14:35Did they f**k you up?
14:39You 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.
14:53The administration feels untouchable.
15:09It heedlessly oppresses prisoners with growing severity.
15:13I couldn't understand why everyone kept silent until I found myself faced with the avalanche
15:22of obstacles that fall on the prisoner who decides to speak out.
15:27The complaint simply do not leave the prison.
15:47In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitri Dins filed a complaint about the conditions at PC14 with the prosecutor's
15:56office.
15:57Do you know what this is?
16:11This is my balls and your f**king head!
16:23Did you ever think that a death threat would go unnoticed when we already have her lawyers
16:28off our ass?
16:29Did your fat f**king head ever think about that?
16:42I'm trying to run in this prison.
16:46You couldn't run a pig for him if you tried.
16:49F**king head ever think about that?
17:13Beginning Monday, 23rd September, I'm going on hunger strike.
17:31This is an extreme method, but I am convinced that it is my only way out of my current situation.
17:42The penal colony administration refuses to hear me, but I, in turn, refuse to back down
17:49from my demands.
17:56I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain
18:07of slavery-like conditions.
18:14I demand that the colony administration respect human rights.
18:33I demand that the Mordovia camp function in accordance with the law.
18:52I demand that we be treated like human beings, not slaves.
18:59I demand that we be treated like human beings, not slaves.
19:20I demand that the Mordovia camp.
19:42I don't know.