Alexandra Dalsbaek’s immersive documentary focuses on two engaging twentysomething protesters making a stand against authoritarianism
the recent documentary Navalny
concerns the speartip, this fired-up addendum is about the spearshaft: the campaigners who defied official harassment to support the Russian opposition leader and then – when his candidature was denied – protest on his behalf during the 2018 presidential elections.
Dalsbaek concentrates on Kolya and Milena, two twentysomething refuseniks leading a group trying to boost Navalny’s cause and unseat Putin. One of their favoured stunts is sneaking outside a state duma or FSB headquarters holding up subversive messages to photograph for social media: “Pathetic. Coward. Thief.
There is something theatrical and vaguely futile, though, about their activities; the sense that, though they are doing the work of maintaining Navalny’s presence in the public space, they are playing a sanctioned game of opposition. The authorities, making the barest gestures of due procedure and stopping just short of anything truly punitive in the case of these little fish, seem happy to play their part.
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