At the Cannes Film Festival this year, Russian film director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s masterpiece Loveless is getting a rapturous welcome from critics. Meanwhile in Russia, a former Cannes winner, film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, is being hauled off for interrogation at the Investigative Committee, after security personnel raided both his apartment and the Moscow theater he runs, the Gogol-Center.At 9 a.m. today, a group of investigators, accompanied by masked armed men (either Russian OMON officers or FSB troops, it’s unclear at time of writing) entered the Gogol-Center building in the center of Moscow. Actors rehearsing before the evening show and …read more
Source: The American Interest
