Welcome to Chechnya
Jan 26 2020
•2h 47m
•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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Maxim Lapunov
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Olga Baranova
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David Isteev
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Vladimir Putin
Self
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