"I had no talent...so everything pushed me towards political activity"

Paweł Pawlikowski and Zhirinovsky

When Yasha sent out the show notes for our last episode, listing a few of the best Russian films about Russia in the 1990s, I forgot to have him include two films by Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski that are among my favorite from that period.

Paweł Pawlikowski is mostly known for two films: Cold War, which is from 2018 and got him a best director awa…