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- movies@piefed.social
- fauxmoi@sh.itjust.works
Synopsis: In Stalin’s 1938 Moscow, a disillusioned former literature professor, Alexei, is arrested and brought to the infamous Lubyanka Prison, charged with conspiring with his dissident priest. There, Alexei faces interrogation by his brilliant and brutal former student, Vladimir.
Release Date: November 11, 2026
Writer: Ben Shapiro
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1938 huh? What an interesting year to have a 100% innocent character arrested “for no reason” by the evil commies. Must just be a crazy coincidence.
I don’t know like anything about Soviet history- what’s the significance of 1938?
What happened in 1939? I’m sure you can figure out the connection (sorry if this sounds a little condescending, it’s not meant to, more of a “don’t worry, you already know the answer” kind of way)
The only thing that comes up when I do a websearch is the USSR invading Poland… 😅
Don’t mean to assume, but I’m guessing you’re American?
The Nazis invaded in 1939. In 1938 the USSR was rapidly preparing for their invasion, which included detecting and rooting out fifth columns or just generally corrupt members of government who would hinder resistance against the nazi invasion. The idea that someone in 1938 would just be some innocent naive victim of crazy commie paranoia is ridiculous, since the nazis were literally trying to push for fifth columnists to cause disarray in the USSR at the time and the USSR was in a desperate race to secure their defenses against the Nazis.
Additionally, with regards to Poland, the western description is usually “evil commies invaded Poland because they’re evil and best buds with the Nazis” but in reality, the USSR only went into Poland after their government collapsed and fled, and the Polish government’s last decree was to not resist the Soviets. In turn, the territory claimed by the Soviets was itself stolen from the USSR in their earliest days by Poland in an invasion directly after the Russian civil war, when the newly formed USSR wasn’t in a position to defend itself.
Lol, thats fine, and its a correct assumption
Thanks for taking the time to explain :) the context around how the USSR was preparing for invasion feels like it gives me a much greater appreciation for the point you were making, thanks!
Yeah, I was being facetitous in the original comment, he chose 1938 deliberately, because the goal is to imply that all the Soviet’s actions leading up to WW2 were just “paranoia” and that defending yourselves against Nazis makes you worse than them. But he can’t outright just say “Nazis good” because even the CHUDs aren’t quite at that level (yet), so they have to create films like this, which deliberately obfuscate and lie about history, since most people get their history knowledge from movies and pop culture, and not dedicated research.
The movie is set to world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival
Perfect
I look forward to the Poles declaring this film far too sympathetic to the communists.
Starship Troopers is the only film that accurately portrays the liberal/fascist view of communists: as insane disgusting bloodthirsty incoherent swarms of giant insects that attack beautiful innocent people for no reason and deserve only extermination.
Writer: Ben Shapiro
oh so it’s dogshit
This might be worth a watch to see how bad it is just because of Benny boi
As long as you’re a propaganist for the ruling class, you’re allowed to write the most dogshit art imaginable and all your followers will sing it’s praises claim it’s fighting against the establishment
Hollywood libs in public: “Resist! We will never surrender.”
Hollywood libs in private: “They’re offering that much for a couple days work?”
Lowe is a founder of the Homeowner’s Defense Fund, a Santa Barbara County non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to local control of land-use planning and transparency in government. The average price of tract homes in Santa Barbara in early 2006 was US$1,100,000, which motivated some to propose denser housing on existing lots. While in favor of increasing housing density, Lowe sought to build a 14,260-square-foot (1,325 m2) mansion for himself on an empty lot in Montecito, California. His protest over the appearance of the address of the empty lot in the Santa Barbara News-Press precipitated a mass resignation of senior employees at that newspaper on July 6, 2006.
(This is one of only two paragraphs under the Philanthropy section of his wikipedia page).
TIL Rob Lowe has long been an asshat.
Isn’t he a massive sexpest or worse?
Yeah, filmed himself having a threesome which included a 16-year-old girl.
And this was BEFORE he was the golden boy on the West Wing
Jesus
While in favor of increasing housing density,
[]sought to…Is that every member of the cast of The West Wing?
He was also on Parks and Rec so he either got a double dose of
or was recognized for excellence in marinating in it.
TIL Rob Lowe has long been an asshat.
I thought this was well established. When he showed up on Parks and Rec. people talked about how shocking it was then that he came back after some kind of coke meltdown.
I had the good fortune to grow up under a rock and not know anything about Parks and Rec until like 2020.
Rob Lowe? More like hey would Ro Blowe me
calling it now, the main characters in this will be given every right-wing grievance currently in America, and normal people watching it will come to the conclusion that their imprisonment was totally justified.
The movie is going to be released directly to The Daily Wire streaming service, says so on the trailer, so I don’t know if normal people will ever watch this movie. The cast being all mainstream actors is what surprises me.
All of The Daily Wire movies are about conservative fantasies, so I think you are correct that it will be written that way.
so I don’t know if normal people will ever watch this movie. The cast being all mainstream actors is what surprises me
I would bet that many normal people will end up watching it specifically because of those big name mainstream actors. If it was just unknown actors, I would agree that no one except ultraCHUDs would ever see it. But I’d assume that’s exactly why Benny boy et al threw a lot of money at these big name actors, to ensure it would end up being more broadly seen.
Brad Dourif
Serious question - what are his politics?
He believes in some form of Infernal Voodoo Hegemony where elder statesmen switch bodies with younger men to live and govern forever
So yeah, standard lib
He strikes me as a guy who just likes to work and probably didn’t even think about the politics.
That might be it. But you never know.
Ninja edit. Maybe I need to stop hate watching pundits. I sounded like one. Could be. Or maybe not.
I mean he’s been doing it for literally 50 years and pretty much always in supporting roles (Wise Blood, notable exception!) so he must have worked for all manner of odious types at this point. Just another day at the office.
I have no idea, I’m just shocked because he’s like a prolific actor in some really fucking good movies and shows. I would have thought he would be way too busy or out of Daily Wire’s budget even now.
would have thought he would be way too busy or out of Daily Wire’s budget even now.
Probably is, it could very well be that payment isn’t what drew him
I also imagine Daily Wire got a massive cash infusion after the flop of the last movie from their benefactors.
Dunland Revanchism (unserious answer)
James Franco
Brad Dourif
Goddammit stop
First the guy who played Randy Disher from Monk, then Danny Trejo, and now this; Goddammit stop already
They should have left him trapped under the boulder for longer than 127 hours
not an anti ussr movie. what can the left do against such a novelty
JJL is a megazionist genocide enthusiast
I think James Franco was cancelled for something, I don’t care enough to look it up. But surely Franco has better options than a Daily Wire movie if he wants to act or needs money.
Hirsch is also a shithead. He came up behind a female executive at a bar, put her in a chokehold, dragged her across a table, then pinned her to the ground with both hands around her neck. All because she had a disagreement with him earlier on set. And instead of talking about it, decided to assault her when she wasn’t even able to see it coming.
For this, Hirsht paid less than $5,000 in fines, spent 2 weeks in jail, and did 40ish hours of community service. Even though this was attempted murder. AFAIK the victim had permanent injuries, too.
So cool you can just randomly try and kill women you don’t like in public, just say you’re “sorry everyone feels that way” and get a short timeout to think about what you’ve done (or rather, how this might impact your career).
So cool you can just randomly try and kill women you don’t like in public, just say you’re “sorry everyone feels that way” and get a short timeout to think about what you’ve done (or rather, how this might impact your career).
This is exactly why chuds hated the me too movement
CW: SA
His acting students sued him for sexual abuse and he tried to hook up with a 17 year old even after she told him she was 17. He was 35 at the time
Natopedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco
Makes sense, there is like a ~80% chance that some Hollywood person getting canceled involves SA/pedophile shit.
and 100% if that person is on a daily wire production. seriously it’s like their mission statement to rehabilitate people who were canceled for good reason (although I suppose it’s also a money-saving measure)
These days I assume that everyone even slightly well-known in the entertainment industry is a creepy scumbag until reasonably demonstrated otherwise.
im trying to understand ben`s strategy here of portraying an Orthodox priest in a good manner. does he think they would like him
This is the primary Ben Shapiro contradiction, him refusing to admit that the USSR was pursuing the only path to fight antisemitism.
