market. can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on our key. welcome back this take a look at our main headlines now this hour the head of the u.n. criticizes the syrian regime for cracking down on the opposition despite pledges from damascus to cease military activity within days of peace plan indorsed by u.n. arab league envoy kofi annan arms that by thursday it must be a ceasefire between the authorities and rebels. so if the leaders in mali agree to step down and hand power to civilians after immense pressure from neighboring countries when two weeks of military rule. and critics lash out at the u.s.

for trying and sentencing as adults calling it a cruel and unjust around ten thousand miners are held in jails and prisons throughout the country. arrests a naughty from a convict to movie director the story of a russian prisoner and his journey to a new life. you go on take that sandwich you give it to him and stand by. we'll go over the scene a couple of times film director alexei issues your new movie about prison life he has won several top prizes of film festivals that yes that's it the film director and his actors have no expectation of public recognition or fame all they really want is to get away from this dismal scenery as soon as possible and never return filth that said thank you they call everybody in. the film crews artistic freedom

is confined to this high security jail petersburg for. the actors cameramen and director all serving sentences for serious crime. rollcall finished return to your area. i'm right you'll toss that snowball from here. film studios run by inmates in russian colonies a not just for fun the aim is to rehabilitate prisoners their involvement in filmmaking is meant to help them reform and start a new life a basic camera is the only piece of equipment at the disposal of the prison produces the crew is normally made up of inmates who know how to handle video recording this colony is lucky there is a professional film director serving his term among them. americans competing

against the old one american leader once said this thinking is the hardest word theory is when you go to war would use probably to reason why so few in it. is anyone who has been involved in filmmaking at least once and you will tell you who would that is sick theory sawston jock of people. notably what some people in the straightforward bangash lines evidence when you will off their questionable existence he will do will be some purpose in the. bowl . as it pictures of ruling families slowly and letters from

sanish to france the smell of schema from the league to the feet like you. would say and the last movie forgive me won an award as an international contests a film about prison in the dirt so became something of a t.v. personality. film is not about a prison camp it's a film about treachery love and human integrity i mean yes eternal truths that stay alive inside and outside prison. of course we can't physically make a film about anything but prison life but i'm still not but that's a different story for the world. when the prison authorities realized the film directors work so to improve the colonies image they began to take his work seriously what's here when he's ill and i'd like to have two shooting areas it's and. ok i'll talk to the chief of the operations section hopefully he can help us

aside from that is everything going according to plan yes valarie cheval of the man in charge of education at the colony is also the chief producer of unthought all of the movies and these he who make sure the films shot in this high security camp don't push the limits of what is permitted all members of the crew get together in the kohli's clubhouse they want to discuss a new script and congratulate the film director on his success at the film festival and is proud to show off the top prize a gold plated watch or russia's ombudsman collected the prize on our behalf the chief warden gave me the watch and said here is the watch and draw on of what others can't wear such watches but you can inmates are not allowed to keep things made of precious metals here you know when he was starting and fell off had a hard time persuading prisoners to act in his movies they'd only do it for tea and

cigarettes at the meeting the director gives the last piece of advice before filming begin once. i've heard it if you thought studious occur in play. whether it will remain else or a law abiding people we're all god's creatures. murderers rapists and drug traffickers make up the bulk of the inmates here each has been sentenced to at least eighty years in prison. alexy and has already served five years he was charged with murder after a drunken fight. pleaded guilty he would have only been sentenced to six years instead of ten but he didn't know if the charges in court maybe because he truly did not intend to kill anyone although he hoped to avoid punishment altogether. ninety percent of those who find themselves behind bars try to deny their guilt avoid punishment all of them say they aren't guilty each inmate has

a story that as a rule has little in common with the official verdict like what you tell each other the films they make a clear cut they contain a plain message about good and evil for. truth. finding a woman for a female role in a male colony is a problem but they make an exception for. if necessary easily for even a child to take part in his films. have changed i knew. for the better. and i would say much. if changed and he. i miss you terribly i've been looking for what happened. yes and now and you and them to get married. but.

is one of the the rules state that she is not to communicate with the inmates but she is ready to risk it because of her love of cinema. only because i know the city and if i'm here or hassles to mark out the psychological barrier between me and them i'll weepy in civilian clothes on the days when i should like now and not tiring to miss my camp and that's even then i realize that i attract attention. ok let's see if everything is alright from this angle. is the male lead in a movie he has agreed to take part because of the film's parallels with his life. yuri is serving a sentence for murder he spent six years behind bars with another six to go. hey buddy come in. come in.

my name is alex see my name is ignored. i have a son to he was four years old when i was in prison. now he is ten we haven't seen each other in where little be exactly five years on the first of march. his last. blog after i got into prison my wife often visited me here she would bring me parcels and circles with yells. at them that lasted for two years but then she told me she was seeing another man. will objecting to that would have been stupid on my part she was young and i had another eleven years to serve and why should i make her suffer. how old are you. eight. hopeful still. the saddest

thing is that a oded to my parents i couldn't attend their funerals since my father died the day after the verdict was announced my mother followed him half a year later it's a shame i didn't accompany them on their final journey of course that my wife has left me or that i still have a long term love to serve are the least of my worries. every inmate dreams about the great hollywood romances showed in film but in reality nobody ever comes to see the inmates cobalts off or until all of a lexie is even turned down an offer of lloyd's cutie is merited by his prison filmmaking under such rules inmates are entitled to extra visits from relatives or more parcels soon then you know what i don't care about because it's taking this you know i see no point in them they still yes wives are allowed to spend more time with their houseplants it's but i'm not officially married us you. will have no

mother no father no grandmother and no grandfather. who would ever come to me. and the almost twenty two year old son was born by his first wife he lives in a russian city far from here he never comes to see his father sometimes and all of talks with him over the phone which requires special permission. it's my fault when i left them are tomb was just a little boy in the voice of that age and your father more than anything else. alexei's daughter victoria is eight years old she was born wedlock victoria and her mother's friend live in st petersburg they have never come here to see alexei he abandoned them when his daughter was a year and a half. aleksei decided to break those bones she told me she wasn't ready to take

responsibility for the child she said the prospect was too much for him it's against him enormously the. thought that his life would be entirely changed unbearable i said to him. as for me i wanted their proper family some may not care about their relationships not being formalized but i do very much. the stamp in our passports testifying to our marriage would have meant a lot to me was what is and us said ok. sometimes that's how we parted. after that he got carried away. this is what victoria wrote on a postcard she sent to her father happy valentine's day adding i love you very much.

and snow valentine's day inmates get together for a poetry recital. on the longest of the. load of. the polling. on the. whole. the. i think some goes off presides over the meeting nickname leone he's been generally acclaimed as the best poet in the camp is twenty years of life in prison and produced twenty three thick notebooks of poetry there are thousands of verses about love you were stuck with in school little people then you seem to be a public it was like a fish. market structure c.d.'s you must all get your kicks french shoes make

it with you. it usually works which is actual truth because the way alexander leo north killed seven people in cold blood one of his victims was a woman. alexander

could hardly be described as a positive character but film director and a lot of could not find some of the more conflict is history for his first documentary alexander is a camp legend has crossed poles with the man in charge of the education department valarie shovel off several times both are found themselves in the same high security prisons cheval of as a prison administrator. as an inmate. i first saw him a long time ago well above the fold it was back when i was serving in a high security jail in the urals. is a strong willed man. for someone to survive in a russian jail all the movements from place to place without cracking is nothing to sneeze at. i have applied for

parole the law allows me to do that. i have already served nineteen years out of the total term of twenty five years i was thirty six years old when i was arrested . now i'm almost fifty five let's see. the footage is from alexia a documentary entitled the point of no return as all of his works this is the one from the convicted direct a shot in the hope that people on the other side of the fence would see the main question of the film is addressed to society do they want his fellow inmate leo off to be set free head of toy. preferably a question he's asked in the film as alexander imagine yourself walking around town and coming across europe victims' relatives what would be your reaction to this

frankly talking about this here is pointless i can only hope that they wouldn't recognize me after so many years i would rather avoid an encounter with them and make sure i never cross their paths. each morning alexander goes through a set of exercises of the car in the special forces due to perfect their skills he is a perpetrator by training learned to kill during the war in one go off he was discharged from the armed forces he went on to make short work of his enemies in the same cold manner the in make claims he eliminated business partners who had betrayed him. into issues expose the post-mortems and a woman had died of a sixty asian i put her to sleep so to speak and if you press some points on the human next person will pass out never to wake up again. much of what he says is not true his. preferred a free wheeling lifestyle. who never sought employment and instead took part in

drinking bouts with shady characters. and it's not that he murdered people as a result of a brawl was simply he and his drinking companions would make friends with someone and drink with him at his place and then kill him there was. given the death penalty for his killings he strangled most of his victims of the scar. was condemned to die but he was on death row for just two years before president yeltsin introduced a moratorium on capital punishment in one thousand nine hundred six. fellow inmates said to me alexander it seems to us that you get life imprisonment i prayed and went to face my fate this was when i entered the room and was told i was now in for twenty five years instead of getting the death sentence i felt like i had been

reborn i had been stuck in prison for six years by then so another twenty five years was just a trifle. we wanted to meet relatives of his victims and show to them what sort of personally all of a common. question is whether an inmate can reform. here is a man with nineteen years of confinement behind him a man writing poetry demonstrating loyalty to the administration and abiding by the law. man doing all he can to prove that he deserves police from here. but then he already saw an act of humanity when his sentence was changed now he wants another is that the right thing to do. but i'm still in two minds that's why we wanted to meet the relatives of his victims to ask them. but the plan didn't come to pass therefore i've been telling undrawn off that his film is incomplete. which

. the court turned down the almost plea for parole now he has to serve another five years to whittle away the time he acts in films as working on a roll in and the last production. look around the tea room. each day some one thousand five hundred big. come here to the kohli's industrial section see timber. and make plumbing fittings clothing all souvenirs. all of it will be in for you tomorrow outside the prison. most of those who do the hard physical work here see filmmaking is a way of shirking the routine labor which helps society. they maintain that the public outside these fences takes little interest in films about prison life alexie

a lot of can sees that his movies i'm lost most of the sense of. the girl well i wouldn't go so far as to describe it as a live action film you know it's just fooling around that's all there is to. prison slang and cheap special effects don't help his cause for instance in the legacies movie go the only friend of the main character is a talking cat. andrei. was. it's me i can't chance. like iran even while here. i see you are scared of your own shadow trying to sharon stone my dear cat. this young man words sound engineer at

a small theater in some peaches he is twenty nine years old he left curity prison only a year ago after six years since he had been sentenced to eighteen of course he is for drug trafficking in prison with a major prize winning film was one of the main factors that led to his early release. it was prison that paved the way to this theater to be more exact it was a legacy of ronald that i did not been for the film we made together i wouldn't be here now that's for sure if i will go with the film festival was chaired by the theatres artistic director he liked our film and gave alexa his business card saying give me a call when you get out of there it so happened that i was the first to get out. was the camera man in the production of the skills he learned in prison his new drug his ambition was to make movies. but filming costs money and fully realizing

his talent. for making a film in prison wasn't much of a problem the guys didn't need much broader him to motivate them they were only too willing to accept t.v. and cigarettes as pay. just no it is all the people working with director of a quite young is new camera man is twenty three years old i was the same age when he was put behind us both fellows were convicted for the same crime. traffic a. cuban rapper named is is yet another man serving a sentence for drug crimes like see him to compose a soundtrack for his new film the convicted film director and then off doesn't care much about whether anybody outside needs his films he hopes that his films filled

leo and other young men learn new skills when they are released the director's wish is that they realize they are stronger more worthwhile things in this life than drugs. have had to pick up but i yearn for the day when i'm released on parole and in your thoughts there are still three years two months to go. you know i want to return home so very much. so i work hard and try to be on my best behavior here on which it's safe that i would come to think of it the two years are spent in the scholarly of taught me to manage my time properly and i'm sure it was but i've also been learning new skills from the other inmates who still treat people here know how to teach. my son he's a successful teaching. one day i told my wife with me i know what they do you know

senior outs. i mean drugs and all that stuff. and you know there's no and she said . i trust him so much i can't imagine him doing anything wrong. i feel the same way i think cartoon want to fall into the trap. is come to realise that he was a bad father to his children he left them with their mother as a time when they needed a father most of all he'll be fifty when he is set free in five years time. after that he will have to earn his children's love again. she was a self-sufficient person and live in a trouble free line if you can i think he has since taken a long hard look at his life. sometimes they'd greets people to make them realize that time is running out.

in us that my son was to see me when i left. the bush i need to do so much to cure chop. wood this prison term. i missed so much. that. alexia off received his first guest in four years. spent lola his college mate friends him a gift he treasures most of all memories three hours creep away unnoticed as they recall highlights of their college days going to the seaside during the holidays and cutting class to watch new films.

alexi decides to send the watch he won for his film forgive me to his salt. there's a new batch of convicts. mark one two. i. i. i am i i

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