Alexander Rodnyansky on the War in Ukraine, Why He Fled Russia, and What’s Next for AR Content
variety.comChristopher Vourlias On March 15, less than three weeks removed from his country’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu drafted a letter to the Minister of Culture demanding the film and TV work of Ukrainian actor-turned-wartime-President Volodymyr Zelensky be “removed from the cultural agenda of the Russian Federation,” citing efforts to rally the public behind President Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression.Also mentioned in his complaint: two-time Oscar nominee Alexander Rodnyansky (“Leviathan,” “Loveless”), the Kyiv-born producer who has called Russia home for two decades.Rodnyansky had already fled the country.
On March 1, he was tipped off by a friend that his opposition to the Ukraine war had landed him in the government’s crosshairs.
Rodnyansky and his wife left the same day. “I cut off my business ties with Russia,” the producer told Variety. “I left behind everything.
The company, the house, everything. Everything that I had.” For the past two months, Rodnyansky has been traveling between Europe and L.A., where his production shingle AR Content is based.
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