Crime-drama "Child 44" banned in Russia for being anti-russian propaganda.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014763/

Russia 1953. A serial killer goes around in Soviet Russia, killing children. An inspector wants to get him. But this type of crime must not exist in the new, perfect society that is Soviet Russia. This type of killer must not exist, for political reasons, his existence must never be acknowledged. The inspector must not hunt this man and gets hampered by his superiors.
The ukrainian genocide gets a passing mention.


The movie is getting attacked by russian media for being anti-russian, for depicting post-WWII-Russia under Stalin as desolate and for depicting Russians as immoral and cowardly. It was banned from russian cinemas by decree of cultural minister Medinsky.


On a totally unrelated note:
* Roughly 50% of Russians regard dictator and mass-murderer Joseph Stalin as a heroic figure.
* Medinsky recently had a play of the german opera "Tannhäuser" scrapped because it violated the religious sensibilities of some orthodox Christians.
* Medinsky also didn't like the drama "Leviathan" that pitted a poor farmer against a violent and corrupt mayor. ("Leviathan" was made and financed in Russia.) One russian journalist ridiculed this as an over-reaction: Anything critical of Russia or the Orthodox Church automatically gets denounced as anti-russian propaganda perpetrated by agents of the West.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802154/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(2014_film)