HBO Documentary ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’ Trailer

HBO has released a new 40-second trailer for one of their new summer documentary series films Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, which the network picked up after receiving praise at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and picking up the Special Jury prize.  The film follows Nadia, Masha, and Katia of the Russian feminist art collective Pussy Riot, who were jailed in early 2012 after performing on Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.

The film is set to premiere on HBO June 10th, hit the jump for the full synopsis and trailer.

On Feb. 21, 2012, members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, donning their colorful trademark balaclavas, or ski masks, participated in a 40-second “punk prayer protest” on the altar of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral before being detained. Arrested and tried for trespassing, wearing “inappropriate” sleeveless dresses and disrupting social order, Nadia, Masha and Katia were accused of religious hatred in a trial that reverberated around the world and transformed the face of Russian society.

 

An official selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Punk Spirit, PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER tells their story with exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to courtroom footage.

 

Filmed over the course of six months by directors Mike Lerner (HBO’s “Afghan Star”) and Maxim Pozdorovkin, PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER reveals the real people behind the balaclavas. Through interviews with band members, family and the defense team and unprecedented footage of the trial, the film highlights the forces that transformed these women from playful political activists to modern-day icons, exposing the state of Russian justice in the modern era.