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HARDtalk: Andrei Konchalovsky - Russian Film Director

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05/08/2014

Andrei Konchalovsky - Russian Film Director

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Andrei Konchalovsky - Russian Film Director

Zeinab Badawi talks to renowned Russian theatre and film director Andrei Knochalovsky.

Zeinab Badawi talks to Russian theatre and film director Andrei Knochalovsky and asks how far what was happening in Russia 100 years ago can help explain what is going on today.

In August 1914, the five great powers of Europe declared war on one another. For countries like Britain, Germany and France the significance of the First World War is regularly debated and commemorated. But what of that other great power Russia? It also fought against Germany but by the end of the war, Tsar Nicholas II and his family had been murdered and the Bolshevik Revolution had brought Lenin to power. How far does what was happening in Russia then help explain what is going on today? Zeinab Badawi talks to renowned Russian theatre and film director Andrei Knochalovsky.

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