Director Pavel Lungin, who has a French passport, in an interview with Arguments and Facts announcedWhy didn’t he go from Russia to France?
It is known that Lungin has an apartment in Paris and also has a house in Montenegro. “It seems to me that there are moments when, on the contrary, you have to be with your country. I have to be around. We have to live here and help him. That’s why I’m here.”
He also added that he tries not to condemn those who decide to leave the country on the backdrop of complex relations with Europe and the United States. “Because here every “potato” (let’s call these people that) has its own problem: one is scared, the other’s parents are sick. The third had a nervous breakdown, came abroad and became a radish … ”the cinematographer shared. At the same time, Lungin described the division of people into “going and coming” as dangerous.
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