MOSCOW, July 4 The creators of the project “Chicken Curry Dungeon” “Black Sky of Vampires”, one of whom is comedian Alexander Gudkov, did not apply for a distribution certificate in the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the distribution of a film without the appropriate document entails administrative liability, the press service of the department told reporters.
Earlier, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein published a post in his Telegram channel that on July 7, the Kinomax-Samara cinema is scheduled to show Gudkov’s film, which, according to him, “publicly condemns Russia and directs royalties from foreign concerts to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.» Khinshtein said that he contacted the Ministry of Culture with a demand to revoke the film's distribution certificate, if it had been previously issued.
«In connection with reports in a number of media and telegram channels, we inform you that the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has not received an application to issue a rental certificate for the project «Chicken Curry Dungeon» «Black Sky of Vampires,» the message says.
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The Ministry of Culture also recalled that showing a film without a distribution certificate, which establishes, in particular, the method of using the film, violates the law and entails administrative liability — under Article 14.58 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Rental of a film and (or) screening film without a rental certificate).