“Obligatory viewing (if you can bear it)”
Nick Holdsworth - Modern Times Review

“In ‘The Dmitriev Affair,’ Gulag Historian’s Persecution is a Microcosm of Putin’s Russia”
Samantha Berkhead - The Moscow Times

“Among the forgotten graves. Soviet history in the films of Jessica Gorter”
Dmitry Volchek - Radio Svoboda (in Russian)

“An intimate portrait of of jailed Russian histiona Yury Dmitriev proves essential viewing”
Novaya Gazeta (in Russian)

“Heartbreaking film-essay about the circularity of the totalitarian history”
Polina Barskova and Ostap Kino - KinoKultura

“Impressive because of the courage of a 21st century dissident; heartbreaking by the price he and his loved ones pay.”
De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch)

★★★★
“In her down-to-earth, impressive documentary The Dmitriev Affair Gorter shows how Putin's repression is growing.”
Volkskrant (in Dutch)

★★★★
“A disturbing portrait of Russian historian and activist Yuri Dmitriev.”
Trouw (in Dutch)

★★★★
“Yuri Dmitriev is an “archaeologist of terror.”
NRC (in Dutch)

★★★★
“A mind-boggling portrait of Russian activist Yuri Dmitriev”
Parool (in Dutch)

"Impressive documentary"
De Filmkrant (in Dutch)

“The Dmitriev Affair: shocking, moving and impressive… …a monument to the honest loner in Putin's chaotic dictatorship where indictment, suspicion, abuse of power and terror call the shots.”
Laura Starink - Raam op Rusland, Oekraïne, Belarus

“I understand if – with all that is coming at us from Ukraine – you have little appetite to see a documentary about a captured Russian. But do it anyway!
This is a fantastic film that very well exposes the mechanism that also allowed the Ukraine war to happen.”
Derk Sauer - Parool (in Dutch)