Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013) on Netflix
NR20131h 18mDocumentary
Femen, a Ukrainian feminist group, stages topless protests. Inna Shevchenko, Sasha Shevchenko, Anna Hutsol and Oksana Shachko are activists whose demonstrations bring harassment and arrests.
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Plot summary
Femen is a feminist protest group from Ukraine whose members demonstrate topless. Four activists stand at the center of the group: Inna Shevchenko, Sasha Shevchenko, Anna Hutsol and Oksana Shachko. A filmmaker spent more than a year with them, traveling through Ukraine, Belarus and Turkey, and recorded what the protests drew, hostility and arrests, across fourteen months. The actions brought the group attention far beyond its home country.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The FEMEN activists helped promote the documentary, but said its picture of Viktor Sviatsky leading the group was out of date, since he had been ejected from the movement in 2012.
- At the photocall for the film at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, the FEMEN activists appeared topless, as is usual for their protests.
