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In one of the film’s strongest scenes, Vladimir Putin put a boy on his shoulder and where the Russian border is. He smiles: Russia never ends.

Putin’s playground There is a co -production of Poland, Norway, Germany, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and also Latvia, which expands the nature of a changing conventional war – following the director Konrad Sholajsky, who meets with investigated interlocutors, we come to the Kremlin’s influence. As Sholajsky himself says, this is the theory of chaos, which is made by Putin Russia – only a slight external force is needed to sell historical memory cracks, inequality and also in Eastern European support for Ukraine. The closing part of the film bends to Latvia, and showing Valentina Frolov, who has been tried for espionage for the Russian Federation, Daugavpils Russians and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga himself, the director himself says that the language is the country’s fragile point.

Born in Warsaw, Sholajsky is a subtle provocateur with critical consciousness. His best -known job Fight with Satan/The Battle with Satan (2015) The culture of the wicked and mysticism in Poland became a national discussion. In turn Let’s make Poland again great/ make poland great again (2018) looked at the impact of the right -wing party and justice. His latest movie Putin’s playground In Poland, as the director himself says, only a small handful of people have seen. It has been recognized by the left -handed press, but the National Television of Poland has refused to broadcast. However, Sholajsky hopes to be able to show the film in cinemas, just as it happened in the Czech Republic, or on television, which has already happened in Sweden and Denmark.

He calls himself a Polish outsider – films are made in Poland, but they are shown outside the country. He is currently waiting for the presidential election and preparing his latest work, which bends to the right political course, but our conversations are in the focus of the Eastern Blocks with physical outline. Hybrid war and invisible manipulation.

Putin’s playground There is the first movie you have become the hero of the movie. We spend almost every minute of the movie with you. Why did you decide to enter the frame?

There are several reasons for this – they are based on both artistically and practical considerations. First of all, when the project gained more international outline and more and more countries, one journalist seemed quite difficult to work with. This would mean that filming planning would be much more complicated – there would be another person to count on the schedule. Since we went to all countries together with the film producer Gosh (Malgozata Procjaka – aut.) And would meet with the interlocutors, it seemed justified that we were in the frame. It is the practical side.