
Ayka
2018


2 votes
A young Russian artist makes an anti-war statement by swapping food labels with pacifist messages in a Moscow supermarket, leading to her arrest and the threat of a 10-year prison sentence.
Director
Alexander MolochnikovStatus
Released
Original Language
Russian
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“Sasha” (Viktoria Miroshnichenko) has a secret from her girlfriend “Sonja” (Tina Dalakishvilli). She prints off labels at home with revealing facts about Russian army abuses in Ukraine, and then sticks them onto groceries in the supermarket. When their eighty-six year old neighbour “Galina” (Lilyan Malkina) happens upon one when buying her sugar, she dutifully reports it to the police who fairly swiftly apprehend their culprit. The policeman advises her to plead stupidity and hope for probation, else she could be facing eight years in jail. A bit of humiliating strip searching and a conversati…
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