The New Yorker profiles Andrey Zvyagintsev, the exiled Russian director of the Cannes Grand Prix-winning film ‘Minotaur’

The New Yorker has published a profile of the filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev by Joshua Yaffa, an American journalist who has written about Russia since the mid-2000s and is the author of “Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia.” Yaffa spoke with Zvyagintsev, as well as with his producers, his actors, and the film critics who study his work. Meduza summarizes Yaffa’s article.