The German director is championing Georgian film-maker Rezo Gigineishvili’s movie about the dying days of the USSR. But, he says, he won’t be drawn into contemporary political debates
in November, was filmed on a tight budget in just 17 days. Four days after Gigineishvili wrapped up, Russian troops set foot on Ukrainian soil. Watching his film now, it’s hard not to see it as a meditation on Russia’s undying autocratic power structures.
Herzog, the film’s champion, is reluctant to be drawn on the film’s contemporary echoes. “Well, I am against every war, any war, I have to say that first,” he says. In 2018 he made a documentary about the Soviet leader who came at the end of the three who passed in quick succession, Mikhail Gorbachev, and has in previous interviews expressed“What resonates within me is Gorbachev’s deep complaint about the missed opportunities of the west, and that’s still lingering,” Herzog says.
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