Eduard Limonov was a poet, a punk, a Russian “émigré” and provocateur whose anti-system politics ultimately noticed him embrace fascist tendencies. Filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov tells Olivia Salazar-Winspear why he selected to make a “ballad” of Limonov’s life and never a biopic, revealing that British actor Ben Wishaw even had the Russian crew members fooled together with his spectacular embodiment of the character. Serebrennikov tells us how Limonov’s political arc follows the far proper actions inside up to date Russia and mirroring the geopolitical state of affairs around the globe. And, as an immigrant himself, the award-winning director tells us why he thinks Moscow’s makes an attempt to silence Russian artists means the federal government has little affect over those that criticise it.
