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Russian Director Aleksey German Jr. Talks His Controversial War Film ‘Air’ and Calls for Dialogue Over Ukraine: ‘It Is Impossible to Cancel Russian Culture’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Russia’s Aleksey German Jr. releases ‘Air,’ a WWII-set film about women pilots, and calls for dialogue over the war in Ukraine.
German Jr. makes no apology for his stance on the current war, but says that excluding Russian films and talent from overseas festivals is unhelpful when culture and dialogue should be the road forward. My previous film, “House Arrest,” which was in Cannes in Un Certain Regard in 2021, and was [made] without state support but [included] French money from MK2, was rejected by later festivals. We also designed and built a special mechanism that lifted the actors and their planes 10 or 12 meters into the air inside the studio and filmed using virtual production techniques in front of LED screens.
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