markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars report on r g. one about here with our team here is a reminder of the top stories this year and government says it will not call its military promise cities without written guarantees from armed rebels that they will remove straight in after words trial survivors of monday's varian plane crash are in a stable condition it's now thought likely that failure to spray the aircraft mentally for use cause it's assault are. the key power players an edge of law has the muslim brotherhood and the ruling military council endorse their prime candidates for next

month's presidential vote. plus moscow slams the sentencing a vicar voted to bring the alleged russian arms dealer home after a u.s. court gave him twenty five years for conspiring to kill americans. that's where the top stories of the week up next we'll bring you our special report the film director of thrown in jail for his passion. go on take that sandwich 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 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 but that's it thank you they call everybody. the film crews artistic freedom is

conforming to this high security jail petersburg for. the actors cameramen and director all serving sentences a serious crime. roll call 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 of basic camera is the only piece of equipment at the disposal of the prison producers 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. i mean it comes

completely against their will one american leader once said the thinking is the hardest word theory is media which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. has anyone who has been involved in filmmaking at least once and i will tell you need would that it's a beary exhausting job schiphol. no play what people in the straightforward bangash lines have it at school and you will all theory questionable existence he will be some purpose of that. bowl ring in his deposit pictures over in families slowly and letters from spanish to france piece of schema for the. receipt like you. would

a leg sam donaldson movie forgive me won an award as an international contests a film about prism of the dirt so became something of a t.v. personality right. film is not a but a prison camp and it's a film about treachery love and human integrity eternal truths that stay alive inside and outside prison and sure there will come a car 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 sure there won't be seen. when the prison authorities realized the film directors work so to improve the colonies image they began to take his work seriously what's new. 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 of the movies it is 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 colonies clubhouse they want to discuss a new script and congratulate the film director on his success at the film festival and the law 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 drawn out what others can't wear such watches but you can be mates are not allowed to give you things made of precious metals here. when he was starting and fell off a hard time in 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 begins. to diffuse thoughts two to screenplay. whether criminals or 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. and pleaded guilty he would have only been sentenced to six years instead of ten but he didn't like the charges in court maybe because he truly did not intend to kill anyone or that he hoped to avoid punishment altogether. ninety percent of those who find themselves behind bars try to deny their guilt and 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 unlike what your mates tell each other the films they make a clear cut they contain a plain message about good and evil friends truth and lies. funding a woman for a female role in a colony is a problem but they make an exception for if necessary and easily for even a child to take part in his films. have changed i knew. for the better. and i would say much. you have changed. your story i miss you terribly i've been looking for what happened. yes. and you can't marry.

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. and no recent unit from tyranny has to marco the psychological barrier between me and them i'll e.p.i. in civilian clothes on the days when i shouldn't like now and not tiring to much my cap even then i realize that sidetracked attention. ok let's see if everything is alright from this angle. is the male lead in and the 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 or a baby come in come in.

my name is alex see my name is a good one. i have a son too he was four years old when i was in prison. now he is ten we haven't seen each other in well it'll be exactly five years on the first of march. the celestial blood would after i got into prison my wife often visited me here she would bring me parcels was a costly serious. problem 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 why should i make her suffer. how old are you age eight. the political story. of the saddest thing is that i owe

a debt 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 a fifth of course that my wife has left me with that i still have a long term love to serve are the least of my worries. every inmate dreams about the great hollywood romance is shown in film but in reality nobody ever comes to see either inmates kill butts off or until all of alexy is even turned down an offer of lloyd's cutie he is merited by his prison filmmaking under such rules inmates are entitled to extra visits from relatives and more parcells said. i don't care about visits we can miss you that i see no point in them. yes wives are allowed to spend more time with their house plants. but i'm not officially married kill. oh my how 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 and he never comes to see his father sometimes and a lot of talks with him over the phone which requires special permission. it's my fault when i left them our tomb was just a little boy. of that age need a father more than anything else. alexei's daughter victoria is eight years old she was born elsewhere wedlock victoria and her mother svetlana live in st petersburg they have never come here to see alexei he abandoned them when his daughter was a year in the whole of. aleksei decided to break those bones he 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 a proper family some may not care about their relationships not being formalized but i do very much. the stamp on our past purse justifying to our marriage which has meant a lot to me already is and us said ok the way because 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. come.

and see valentine's day inmates get together for a poetry recital. on the with all the b.s. . the polling. done. oh. oh. i think sunday presided over the meeting nickname neal 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 your words book one still wish more people than you seem to be publishing was like that we should book it struck a cd if you must ok explain it if you make it if you have it usually works.

if you are serious closely go away alexandre leone off killed seven people in the cold blood one of his victims was a woman. well for the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've dumped the future covered. wealthy british style. markets weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of report on our key. alexander leone of could hardly be described as

a positive character but film director and a lot of could not have found someone with a more conflicted history for his first documentary alexander is a camp legend he has crossed poles with the man in charge of the colonies education department valarie shovel off several times both are found themselves in the same high security prisons shovel of as a prison administrator of as an inmate the. first saw him a long time ago all of the most of it was back when i was serving in a high security jail in the urals. is a strong willed. for someone to survive in a russian jail that ensure all the movements from place to place without cracking is nothing to sneeze at. you i have applied for parole the law allows me to do that. i have already served

nineteen years out of a total term of twenty five years i was thirty six years old when i was arrested you know i'm almost fifty five which still. here the footage is from alexia. documentary entitled the point of no return of all of his works this is the one film the convicted director 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 troy. 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. frankly talking about this here is pointless i can only hope that they wouldn't recognize me have to 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 to perfect their skills is a perfect trooper by training learned to kill during the war in angola 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 making claims he eliminated business partners who had betrayed him. to a shoe expose the post-mortems and the woman had a sexy asian i put her to sleep so to speak and if you press some points on the human neck person will pass out never to wake up again. much of what he says is not true. preferred a free wheeling lifestyle. he 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. given the death penalty for his killings he strangled most of his victims with a scar. leo was condemned to die but he was on death row for just two years before president yeltsin introduced a moratorium on capital punishment and nine hundred ninety six. fellow inmates said to me alexander it seems to us that you'll get life imprisonment i prayed and went to face my fate was different 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 and 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 us have become the key question is whether an inmate can reform here is a man with nineteen years of confinement behind a man writing poetry demonstrating loyalty to the administration and abiding by the law. man doing all he can to prove that he deserves a release from here. but then he already saw an act of humanity when his sentence was changed now he wants another it's not the right thing to do. 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 him drawn off but 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 is

working on a role in and develops production. where is there hark you. look around the tea room. each day some one thousand five hundred combat. come here to the coolies industrial section of timber. and make plumbing fittings clothing all souvenirs. all of it will be employed tomorrow outside the prison where. most of those who do the hard physical work here see filmmaking as a way of shocking the routine labor of the scope society. they maintain that the public outside these fences takes little interest in films about prison life. a lot of concedes that his movies a north must he says. 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 movie go the only friend of the main character is a talking cat. andrei. was. yeah it's me chance and it sounds. like the show i run into while here. i say are scared of your own shadow john shand song moggi your cat. this young man world sound engineer has a small theater in simply just. good in his twenty nine years old he left his security prison only a year ago to six years since he had been sentenced to eight in the coffee is for

drug trafficking while in prison with a major prize winning film was one of the main factors that led to his early release. happened you know it was prison that paved the way to this theater to be more exact it was a lot. i did not been for the film we made together and i wouldn't be here now that's for sure 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 last production the skills he learned in prison his new drug his ambition now is to make movies. and filming costs money and fully realizing his talent is still beyond his means. making

a film in prison wasn't much of a problem the guys didn't need much broader to motivate them and they were only too willing to accept t.v. and cigarettes as pay. just nowadays all the people working with director alex am thought of quite young his 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 drug trafficking. cuban rapper leo mendez is yet another man serving a sentence for drug crimes alexei i asked him to compose a soundtrack for his new film the convicted film director on the north doesn't care much about whether anybody outside needs his films he hopes that his films help 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 . i yearn for the day when i'm released on parole and you know. there are still three years two months to go i thought. you know i want to return home so very much. so i work hard and try to be on my best behavior here on the actual set and i would come to think of it for two years i spent in the scholarly of taught me to manage my time properly grounded in our systems but also been learning new skills from the other inmates who still treated people here know how to teach them. my son he's a successful teaching that one day i told my wife like me i know what they do in those hangouts. i mean drugs and all that stuff here go off and but you know

there's no and she said will. i trust him so much i can't imagine him doing anything wrong the more i feel the same way i think cartoon want to fall into the trap. says come to realise that he was a bad father to his children he left them with their mother at a time when they needed a father most of all he'll be fifty when he is set free in five years toy of that he will have to earn his children's love again. just that he was a self-sufficient personal even a trouble free line. i think he has since taken a long hard look at his life. sometimes they'd greets people to make them realise that time is running out. just and that my son was the see me when i left.

the gosh i need to do so much to kid chop. wood this prison term. i missed so much. alexy on the off receives his first guest in four years. said lola his college mate brings him a gift he treasures most of all memories three hours creep away unnoticed as they recall highlights of a college day going to the seaside during the holidays and cutting closs to watch new films.

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