In Russia, it is forbidden to show the Barbie movie or Warner Bors. also announced that he would not take his work to the Russians as a sanction for the war in Ukraine. Vg reported .
Barbie has been shown in Russian multiplex cinemas for a long time, and it has also been dubbed in Russian. Of course, Warner did not bring the film into the country, but they obtained illegal copies from neighboring countries, the paper reported.
Russian cinemas have even considered copyright issues, despite the fact that Mattel or Warner Bros. are unlikely to do anything if they openly admit that we have Barbie on the show. Nonetheless
old and new Russian short films are advertised in cinema programs all over the country, for which crowds buy tickets. Before the usually 10-15 minute Russian short films, the Barbie film is shown as a trailer. I mean, not the trailer for the Barbie movie, but the entire movie as a trailer
they wrote.
According to the portal, however, Russian cinemas are protecting themselves not only from Western intellectual property rights lawsuits, but also from the Kremlin, since the Barbie movie does not meet the traditional Russian moral and intellectual values defined by President Vladimir Putin - this is the position of the Russian Ministry of Culture.
Accordingly, Barbie did not even receive a distribution license in Russia, so it could not be officially shown in cinemas, they wrote.
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