Frantsiya ne sushchestvuet

Cian O'Connor cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 26 07:46:02 PST 2002


--- Chris Doss <chrisd at russiajournal.com> wrote: >
> I asked my editor about this last night. His eyes
> lit up and he said "That
> would make a great story!" So I'll keep you posted.
>
> It's kind of trendy for the nouveaux riches to fund
> artictic projects or
> civil society initiatives (it makes them feel
> important). Berezovsky saved
> the Andrei Sakharov Institute last year, something I
> think would make
> Sakharov turn over in his grave and should be a
> source of deep shame to the
> Institute's management.

He's right, it would.

Of course there could be other explainations. A lot of these films might have foreign funding of some kind. A lot of Russian films in recent years have had French coproduction credits.

Of course in Hong Kong a lot of the money funding films comes from various Triad gangs.

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