Today Six Days Films, Doc Society, Roast Beef Productions, and Journeyman Films are thrilled to announce it will release critically acclaimed documentary F@CK THIS JOB (TANGO WITH PUTIN) in UK cinemas from 24th February. Directed by Vera Krichevskaya, Produced by Vera Krichevskaya and Mike Lerner (Oscar-nominated Hell and Back Again, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) and Executive Produced by Jess Search (Oscar winning Citizenfour, Emmy-nominated Virunga), Sandra Whipham (Emmy award-winning P.O.V. and Enemies of the People) and Barbara Biemann (National Bird), the film is an unprecedented look at censorship and the dramatic changing media landscape inside Putin's Russia since 2008.
Natasha, 35, is a newly rich, successful woman who is looking for fame, reputation and to make her dreams come true. She decides to launch an independent TV station in Putin’s Russia, 2008. Natasha decides to hire young open-minded, untainted reporters without a track record in government-run media. Soon Dozhd TV's office becomes a magnet for new, unconventional media professionals, many of whom are part of Russia's LGBTQ community. Coincidentally, the Russian Parliament has just passed its "anti-gay" law. From the beginning, a very bumpy road is laid out for Dozhd TV and it quickly becomes the lone island of political and sexual freedom in Putin's Russia.
Dozhd TV (also known as TV Rain) is the only independent TV news station that has survived Putin's rule. Back then, this woman could not have known she would fight on the frontline of a war between truth and propaganda and lose everything. She did not think she would become a 'foreign agent' in her own country.
