Assessing the strike’s damage, plus an encore with ‘Navalny’ director Daniel Roher
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
First, what lasting damage to the entertainment industry will the extended impasse between striking Hollywood creatives, and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers leave in its wake?
Then, in an encore interview, Navalny director Daniel Roher and investigative journalist Christo Grozev discuss how they came to pursue a film about Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader. They also talk about the risks they faced to make the Oscar-winning documentary, and the eventual arrest and sentencing of the politician in Russia.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:04.9 | The Wall Street Journal recently reported that imprisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny |
| 0:09.6 | could be part of a prisoner swap with Western countries, an idea that Russia is calling |
| 0:14.8 | speculation. |
| 0:16.6 | Today, we revisit our conversation with the team behind the Academy Award-winning documentary, |
| 0:21.3 | Navalny. In tackling a project to figure out how Putin tried to kill Navalny in 2020, |
| 0:27.3 | investigative journalist Kristo Grosov took one of the biggest risks imaginable. |
| 0:32.1 | When Navalny and I were saying our goodbyes when he was about to leave for Berlin, |
| 0:36.4 | he literally turned to me and said, |
| 0:38.7 | well, until now I was number one on Putin's list, |
| 0:41.1 | and from now on, you're number one on Putin's kill list. |
| 0:44.0 | And it seems that he was not joking. |
| 0:46.7 | The British Film Academy took the danger facing Grossov so seriously |
| 0:50.4 | that they asked him not to attend the BAFTA Award ceremony |
| 0:53.4 | in which the film won for best documentary. |
| 0:56.6 | Grozev and director Daniel Rohr share why the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine expedited the release of their film |
| 1:03.1 | and the challenge of staying objective despite Navalny's exceptional charm. |
| 1:08.5 | But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 1:14.6 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. I don't want to stir |
| 1:20.2 | false hope. And I know everybody in the entertainment community is desperate for news of the |
| 1:26.6 | strike and what's happening. In fact, I will mention to you |
| 1:29.7 | that I had a conversation in recent days with a name that you would recognize right away, |
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