‘We’ve Made Every Possible Mistake’: The Director Of ‘Russian Ark’ On The Problem With Russia

Alexander Sokurov: “We can blame [Putin] for many things, but in reality it’s because there’s huge support from the people. It’s just like a ring, a circle, and the question for Russian society is how to get out of this vicious circle. But we haven’t been able to get out of this circle since the time of the Romanovs. … There is a way out of a crisis of any kind, but from the moral crisis – you can spend centuries getting out of the moral crisis, and that’s our problem.”