The New Yorker published a profile of Andrei Zbyagintsev. That's what they write there and the author of the text is Yehoshua Yaffe, a journalist who has been writing about Russia since the mid-2000s and lived for many years in Moscow. Most readers of The New Yorker, of course, have no such experience, so much of the material is quite clear to Russian-speaking readers. But there are also very interesting things. For example, how about this fact: the French producer Zvyagintseva assures that the director either did not know how, or was completely unaccustomed to coming up with ideas for his films. In Russia, Alexander Rodninsky was looking for money for him, as they say, on a turnkey basis. In Europe, independent films are not made like this: several companies are involved in the production of the film, and the director has to interact with all of them. We renumber the profile using the link. ___ The material is not opened? Read here or here.

The New Yorker published a profile of Andrei Zbyagintsev. That's what they write there and the author of the text is Yehoshua Yaffe, a journalist who has been writing about Russia since the mid-2000s and lived for many years in Moscow. Most readers of The New Yorker, of course, have no such experience, so much of the material is quite clear to Russian-speaking readers. But there are also very interesting things. For example, how about this fact: the French producer Zvyagintseva assures that the director either did not know how, or was completely unaccustomed to coming up with ideas for his films. In Russia, Alexander Rodninsky was looking for money for him, as they say, on a turnkey basis. In Europe, independent films are not made like this: several companies are involved in the production of the film, and the director has to interact with all of them. We renumber the profile using the link. ___ The material is not opened? Read here or here.