MOSCOW, 28 Apr. Karen Shakhnazarov urged not to cut out the actors who left Russia from the cinema, says Channel Five.
The media published a video. On the footage, the director communicates with reporters. But you can't hear what question he's answering.
«I'm not in favor of cutting out films. What now? A good picture of the 9th Company. Why cut and ruin the picture because of him? I don't consider it right,» the director said.
He also reminded me of the Norwegian writer Knut Gamson. «Condemned after 1945 for collaborating with Nazism. But his books are being published. Because his works are completely different from his personal position,» Shakhnazarov explained. The film premiered in 2005. The events in it unfold a few months before the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The main characters are paratroopers. One of the roles was played by Artur Smolyaninov*. In an interview with Novaya Gazeta. Europe (blocked in Russia by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office), the artist said that if he took part in the NWO, he would be on the side of Ukraine. And he added: he «doesn't give a damn» about Russia, even if only one region of the country remains, «and everything else will turn into radioactive ashes.»
* An individual acting as a foreign agent.