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Kirill Serebrennikov on Directing Ben Whishaw as a Russian Punk Poet ‘Who Wanted to Start a War Against the Entire World’ in ‘Limonov: The Ballad’
Kirill Serebrennikov on directing Ben Whishaw as a Russian punk poet 'Who wanted to start a war against the entire world' in 'Limonov. The Ballad.'
“Eddie” then became a literary sensation in Paris before returning to Russia where he morphed into a charismatic dissident party leader with rock star status, only to be incarcerated by Vladimir Putin. Serebrennikov spoke to Variety about how history came crashing in on set and what it was like to direct Ben Whishaw to play this quintessentially Russian character. I mean, in general, people living in a state of war, they can’t react normally, they can’t accept an art film without any propaganda.
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