Alexander Rodnyansky - Variety500 - Top 500 Entertainment Business Leaders

Publish date: 2024-04-25

Two-time Academy Award nominee Alexander Rodnyansky (“Leviathan,” “Loveless”) was sentenced in absentia to 8.5 years in prison by a Moscow court on Monday, with the producer accusing Russian authorities of attempting to “instill more fear” among critics of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. “Dozens of Russia’s best writers and musicians have been sentenced for that purpose before me: to silence the anti-war voices,” Rodnyansky said in a statement shared with Variety. The ruling, which was handed down in Moscow’s Basmanny...

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