THE DMITRIEV AFFAIR
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In the forests of Karelia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches, against the wishes of Russian authorities, for mass graves from the time of Stalin's Great Terror – until he is arrested one day and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Dmitriev was the director of the Karelian branch of the human rights organisation Memorial, the recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Peace that was ordered to be dissolved in late 2021. The film accompanies Yuri Dmitriev and his family at close range and paints a shocking portrait of the way that the Russian state rewrites its own history and treats its citizens.
In the forests of Karelia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches, against the wishes of Russian authorities, for mass graves from the time of Stalin's Great Terror – until he is arrested one day and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Dmitriev was the director of the Karelian branch of the human rights organisation Memorial, the recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Peace that was ordered to be dissolved in late 2021. The film accompanies Yuri Dmitriev and his family at close range and paints a shocking portrait of the way that the Russian state rewrites its own history and treats its citizens.
