Hello, my name is Justin Kluar, and I'm here today with Will Slown.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're talking about the filmmaker that made some of the biggest movies ever.

Sergei Bandachuk.

That's right.

Biggest in terms of mass, size, runtime, budget, adjusted for inflation.

It's still International Month here on the Important Cinema Club podcast, by the way.

And this week, we're traveling back to the former USSR. I'm sure a lot of you listening think

that the private sector should do everything. And I disagree. And one of the reasons I disagree

is because, look, let's say you're celebrating or marking, I should say, the 150th anniversary

of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Get me Ridley Scott. Yeah, maybe. We're also doing this episode

because we want to piggyback on the Napoleon fever that's currently

sweeping the nation.

Is that actually why we're doing it?

Is that why you suggested it?

No, it just was a pure coincidence, right?

Pure coincidence, yeah.

And let's say there's a sort of arms race going on between East and West over.

Who can make the biggest epics?

And let's say the West already adapted one of the great Russian novels.

And Russia went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We are embarrassed that this was a huge success in Russia.

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