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calls the pace of exhibit is basically motivated and browse to bring them to russian arms dealer that's not a u.s. court sentenced the businessman to twenty five years for conspiring to kill americans. up next around see the former russian prisoner who turned from silent to filmmaker and our special report made in prison. 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 at film festivals 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 what it said thank you they call everybody. the film crews artistic freedom is confined

to this high security jail petersburg for. the actors cameramen and director all serving sentences the serious crime. roll call finished return to your area. 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 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. i mean it comes

completely against the will one american leader once said the thinking is the hardest word theory is mediocre award which is probably the reason why so few in it . has anyone to share has been involved in filmmaking at least once and you will tell you need to work with it but it's a very exhausting job of what people. build up with what the people in the straightforward vanquish lines every day at school and you will all fear a questionable existence see what will be some purpose in the. bowl. because the teachers overruling families slowly and letters from sanish to france

piece of schema for that we did that with the lady. alexei until our last movie forgive me one of the awards is an international contest a film about prison in the dirt so became something of a t.v. personality right. as a film is noted but a prison in chicago to be a just it's a film about treachery love and human integrity i mean eternal truths to stay alive inside and outside prison in short a war crime the 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 for the world and. when the prison authorities realized the film directors work served to improve the cole and his image they began to take his work seriously last year when he's ill and i'd like to have two shooting areas it's and shit 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 and all 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 kohli's clubhouse they want to discuss a new script and congratulate a film director on his success at the film festival and the thought of is proud to show off the top prize a gold plated watch or brushes ombudsman up to the prize on our behalf the chief warden gave me to watch and said here is the watch and drawn out what others can't wear such watchers but you can inmates are not allowed to keep things made of precious metals here. when he was starting and 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

a last piece of advice before filming begins. i've heard it if you thoughts tradition careen play. whether it will criminals or law abiding people we are all god's creatures. murderers rapists and drug traffickers make up the bulk of the inmates here each has been sentenced to at least eighteen years in prison. 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 denied 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. say they aren't guilty each inmate has

a story that as a rule has little in common with the official verdict. tell each other the films they make a clear cut they contain a plain message about good and evil for. truth and. funding 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. has changed. i miss you terribly i've been looking for what happened. yes and no injury and to get married. but i have.

is one of the gods the rules state that she is not to communicate with the inmates but she is ready to risk it because of her love of. the city and if i'm here or has to marco the psychological barrier between me and them i'll weepy in civilian clothes on the days when i shouldn't like now and not her intimates might have 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 new movie he's 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 anybody come in. come in.

my name is alex see my name is a good one. 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 well it'll be exactly five years on the first of march. the celestial blog after i got into prison my wife often visited me here she would bring me parcels and circles with yells. of 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 why should i make her suffer. how old are you age eight. and the saddest

thing is they lay over dead to my parents i couldn't attend their funerals says 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 but 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 the film but in reality nobody ever comes to see the inmates cobalt off or until all of alexey is even turned down an offer of large duty is merited by his prison filmmaking under such rules inmates are entitled to extra visits from relatives or more parcels sitting in i don't care about visits we can assume that i see no point in them. yes wives are a lot just spend more time with their house plants it said but i'm not officially

married us kill. my own 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 on the lawn 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 out of wedlock victoria and her mother live in st petersburg they have never come here to see alexei he abandoned them when his daughter was a year and a half old. aleksey 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 want to their proper family some may not care about their relationships not being formalized but i do very much. this 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 but it was after that he got carried away. this is what victoria wrote on a postcard she sent to her father happy valentine's day at a pub i love you very much.

and sue valentine's day inmates get together for a poetry recital. along. the will all be assuming. the polling. done. all. i like sunday presided over the meeting nickname leona he's been generally acclaimed is the best poet in the camp his twenty years of life in prison have produced twenty three thick notebooks of poetry there are thousands of verses about love your words were in slow motion people then you see people which was like a fish live but you still didn't see it you must still get expenditures which make

it with you. it's usually which is actual truth because they go away alexander leo north killed seven people in cold blood one of his victims was a woman the. question was not so much about taxpayers money men raising me i mean how many public areas the time finally come when we should value complicated measurements of well being indices such as g.d.p. and other governments to.

alexander leon of could hardly be described as a positive character but film director and a lot of could not find some of the 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. as an inmate. some i first saw him a long time ago all that and also 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 and 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 the total term of twenty five years i was thirty six years old when i was arrested and you know i'm almost fifty five which is the footage from alexia documentary entitled the point of no return as 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 inmates of the on off to be set free headed. 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 would 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 do affect their skills he is approaching provide training. to kill during the war in angola he was discharged from the armed forces and went on to make short work of his enemies in the same cold manner then make claims he eliminated business partners who had betrayed him. to expose the post-mortems the woman had died of the sixty asian i put her to sleep so to speak and the question if you press some points on the human neck a person will pass out never to wake up again. much of what he says is not true. of preferred a free wheeling lifestyle. well he never sought employment and instead took part in

drinking bouts with shady characters. 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 a layoff was given the death penalty for his killings he strangled most of his victims with a scar. the owner 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 get life imprisonment i prayed and went to face my fate and 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 with a try had been in prison for six years by then so another twenty five years was

just a trifle. i didn't think we wanted to meet relatives of his victims and show to them what sort of person lay all of that's become a. 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 is that the right thing to do with the right i'm still in two minds and 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 of his film is incomplete. which. the court turned down last 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 the world of sport. where is there heartache. look around the t.v. room. each day someone posing for. the convicts come here to the kohli's industrial section timber. and make plumbing fittings clothing all souvenirs. all of it will be afraid tomorrow outside the prison. most of those who do the hard physical work here see filmmaking as a way of shutting the routine labor of the scope society. they maintain that the public else like these fences takes little interest in films about prison life. a lot of concedes that his movies are not most recent so what.

they grow 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. the only friend of the main character is a talking cat. andrade. was. yeah it's me catch on senate sounds. like the chill i run in while here. i see are scared of your own shadow johnson sounds on my to your cat. this young man works sound engineer at a small theater in something just he is twenty nine years old he left prison

only a year ago to six years since right he had been sentenced to a few years for drug trafficking while in prison he cooperated with a major prize winning phil 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 and it not been for the film we made together i wouldn't be here now that's for sure it will go with that 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 and thoughtless production 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 income motivate them and they were only too willing to accept t.v. and cigarettes as pay. nowadays all the people working with director. 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 drug trafficking. cuban rapper named is is yet another man serving a sentence for drug crimes and let's see him to compose a soundtrack for his new film a convicted film director on the run off doesn't care much about whether anybody outside meets his fells he hopes that his films help leo

and other young men learn new skills when they are released the directors wish is that they realize they are stronger and more worthwhile things in this life than drugs. has for the cure i yearn for that day when i'm released on parole and in the last oscar there are still three years two months to go i thought. you know i want to return home so very much. that was her car struck so i work hard and try to be on my best behavior here not much etc i would come to think of it the two years i spent in the scholarly of taught me to manage my time are probably in our choices but i've also been learning new skills from the other inmates he saw through the people here know how to teach. my son he's a successful teaching the course one day i told my wife again i know what the junos hangouts of the i mean drugs and all that stuff he had

a wolf in for the new movie and she said will you 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. is come to realize 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 the earn his children's love again. she was a south sufficient personal even a trouble free life. i think he has since taken a long hard look at his life. sometimes they don't reach people to make him realize that time is running out.

just in that my son was to see me when i left. the gosh i need to do so much to cure chop. wood this prison term. i missed so much. off receives his first guest in four years. his college mate brings 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 cloths to watch new films.

alexy decides to send the watch he won for his film forgive me to his son. there's a new batch of convicts. that after their. march one to. i. i. i i i i i i

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