A thorough article describes the decay of Russian #cinema industry, from financing / co-production (Russia expelled from Eurimages), to #casting and teams selection (on ideological merits), gear (un)availability (lighting rentals, #camera repair, makeup consumables)…
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Silver smokescreen. Russian film industry workers on censorship and wartime propaganda
For a long while, the Russian film industry coexisted with the government on the basis of a fragile consensus: studios signed lucrative government contracts for patriotic movies about the USSR in WWII...