On the contrary, our film features the complicated road to God of a man who genuinely wants to find his way,” Ninovsky told The Daily Beast. The star actor playing young Paul’s part, Peter Ninovsky, insisted that he had no intention of offending the feelings of Orthodox believers. “And the current government is not doing that.” “Of course, Ukraine should not be involved in any sort of censorship and manually manage film production,” Podolyak told The Daily Beast. Mykhailo Podolyak, a communications adviser with the Presidential Administration, admitted there was an issue with intolerance in Ukraine and said that Rabinovich and the critics are trying to “discredit all elements of life in the contemporary Western world-liberal democracy and open society,” as well as tolerance. “But that isn’t going to stop us from producing this film in Ukraine, as this is the only way to change the short-sighted public views and stop attacks on LGBT,” Olekso Gladushevsky, another producer, told The Daily Beast. “I am a former boxer, I could really punch these thugs for such dirty comments,” the director added after taking a glance at the hateful messages he received on Instagram. “We were inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietà, by Rene Magritte’s kissing figures, which seemed provocative for our haters,” Vasilian told The Daily Beast.
But shortly after that, more than 3,000 people signed a petition calling for the funds to be revoked and criticizing the film for scenes featuring Orthodox Christian symbols.
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“A few weeks ago a pro-Russian parliament member, Vadim Rabinovich, was the first to criticize our film for its LGBT theme and immediately, Russian propagandist television journalist, Olga Skobeyeva, mentioned that in her show, mocking Ukraine for its love for gay men,” one of the producers, Regina Maryanovska-Davidson, told The Daily Beast.Įarlier this year, My Young Prince won a competition among hundreds of Ukrainian movie proposals and received about $770,000 in state funding.
The screen writers and producers behind My Young Prince believe that it is important for gay men to be represented in Ukraine, where, according to a recent social poll, 47 percent of population are intolerant toward the LGBTQ community. On Thursday, Catharsis published the address Vasilian’s Instagram account on Telegram, leading to a barrage of new hate messages so severe that the director had to make his public account private. “They are neo-Nazi activists, painting Swastikas on the walls, attacking ethnic minorities and LGBT ,” Sergatkova told The Daily Beast. She also mentioned Sergei Korotkykh, known as Botsman, an ex-member of the Russian NSS (National-Socialist Society) who has been accused of killing two men in front of a Nazi flag.
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The founder of Zaborona news media, Ekaternia Sergatkova, told The Daily Beast that one of the key leaders behind Ukraine’s ultra-right movement is Evgen Karas, the founder of the violent neo-Nazi group C14, which has been accused of killing the editor-in-chief of a pro-Russian newspaper as well as a series of violent attacks on Roma people. Crowds of them dressed in black walked the streets of Kyiv holding a long banner that read: “Death.” They shot firecrackers and chanted, “Death to the rich!” and put a sign in front of the Closer nightclub that read “Nayem Shop,” a racist reference to Mustafa Nayem, a corruption-fighter, journalist, and politician of Afghan origin who serves as Ukraine’s deputy minister of infrastructure. The Telegram post brought dozens of far-right radicals together. His plans came to a halt after the Catharsis Telegram channel made a call to its members, asking them to engage in a “crusade” against “drug users” that targeted nightclubs, including Closer. On Saturday, a friend of mine from Chicago was planning to celebrate his 60th birthday in his home city of Kyiv at a hip nightclub called Closer. Terrifyingly, Catharsis’ raging sprees sometimes transcend the realms of the internet-and into the real world. “I am a former boxer, I could really punch these thugs for such dirty comments.”