Event
McGill East European and Russian Film/Documentary Series: "Disbelief" (2004, USA/Russia, documentary, 105 minutes)
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 17:00
Leacock Building
855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, CA
In September 1999, two working-class Moscow apartment buildings were bombed in atrocious and deadly attacks that authorities blamed on Chechen terrorists. As fear rippled through Russia, Vladmir Putin centred his presidential bid on settling the score with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, vying to "rub them out in the outhouse." With this visually stunning documentary, Andrei Nekrasov questions Chechen responsibility for the blasts and explores recent evidence that the bombings were orchestrated by Russian authorities, in order to discredit the Chechen leadership and to precipitate a second war with Chechnya.