Oscar-winning film banned in US

In the American city of Memphis, one of the country's largest economic centers, they decided not to show the film “Gone with the Wind,” which at one time collected a whole collection of Oscars. сообщает The New York Times.

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The corresponding decision was made by the Orpheum cinema in Memphis, which explained that the film incorrectly depicts blacks and romanticizes slave owners.

According to Brett Batterson, the president of the company that owns Orpheum, the question of withdrawing the film from distribution was raised even before the events in Charlottesville, but “now, the storm that has erupted on social networks has forced a final decision.”

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