Dmitry STEPANOV
Дмитрий СТЕПАНОВ
Dmitri STEPANOV
Russia, 2019, 29mn 
documentary
Prezumptsia vinovnosti
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Презумпция виновности

 

 Prezumptsia vinovnosti

 Présomption de culpabilité

 
Directed by : Dmitry STEPANOV (Дмитрий СТЕПАНОВ)
Writing credits : Dmitry STEPANOV (Дмитрий СТЕПАНОВ)
Cinematography : Ivan POPIKOV (Иван ПОПИКОВ)
Produced by : Yelena DUBKOVA (Елена ДУБКОВА)
Companies : Кинохроника / Kinokhronika
 

Awards :
Prize of the Festival President International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2020

Plot synopsis
Ivanovo journalist Andrei Yevgenyev and Moscow student Nikita Mikheenko are completing their sentences in strict regime prisons in Ivanovo and Tula regions. The court found them guilty of drug possession, but the young men claim their innocence and accuse the same police officers who arrested them of fraud during their service, abuse of power and beatings.
The two mothers, Olga Evgenyeva and Raisa Mikheenko, want to restore their sons' honor. These women go to visit their sons, point out the inconsistencies in the investigation in numerous complaints, but receive only evasive answers. However, their efforts ultimately lead to a thorough inspection of the police station where, as they claim, their sons were beaten. And the investigators launch a new judicial investigation for abuse of power, the actors of which may become these same police officers with dirty hands.
Will the families of journalist Andrei Evgenyev and student Nikita Mikheenko be able to prove their innocence? Will they be able to be released and will those who were able to smuggle drugs to the accused to improve their grades be punished?
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2021
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2020