A new movie about Donald Trump will not be shown in Russian theater after its regional distributor failed to receive a screening license from the authorities, the Vedomosti business paper reported Monday.Distributor Atmosfera Kino was because of release The Apprentice, directed byAli Abbasi, at theaters across Russia last month.
The release date was pressed back to Nov.
14 for unidentified reasons.The Apprentice will not be launched in Russia because it has not received a circulation license, Vedomosti priced estimate the business as stating in a statement.
It did not explain the factor behind the decision.The movie, which illustrates Trump as a young man under the mentorship of the notorious New York lawyer Roy Cohn, opened in U.S.
theater last month.
It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.The Apprentice stirred controversy earlier this year over a scene that shows Trump, depicted by actor Sebastian Stan, raping his first spouse Ivana after she teases him for putting on weight and going bald.
That scene is a fictionalized account of an alleged 1989 attack that was formerly detailed in the couples divorce proceedings.Trump, who protected a second term in the White House recently, slammed the film as a low-cost, defamatory, and politically horrible hatchet job that he hoped would be a box-office bomb.His lawyers have pledged to take legal action against the films manufacturers, calling it garbage and pure destructive defamation.Before it was prohibited in Russia, The Apprentice wasshown last month at a documentary celebration in St.
Petersburg.