The British director Peter Greenaway is to direct a film about Russia backed by a billionaire businessman and ally of Vladimir Putin who has been hit with US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
The movie with the working title “Volga” will “look at the past and future of Russia, a country on the border between Europe and Asia”, a foundation headed by Gennady Timchenko said on Friday.
A representative of the Timchenko Foundation, Anna Kobzeva, said Greenaway was working on the screenplay of the film, to be produced by Frenchman Pierre-Christian Brochet, a collector of Russian art.
Greenaway has previously worked in Russia and his film about the visionary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein having a torrid affair with his local male guide in Mexico was screened at this year’s Berlin film festival.