Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Serbian film director Emir Kusturica in the Kremlin, saying that Kusturica's approach to history can be \u201every interesting and productive.\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201eArt reflects the reality of life, and today it is just a forgotten past. Your appeal to history, it seems to me, can be very interesting and productive,\u201c Putin told Kusturica, RIA reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called the Serbian director's ideas about making films in Russia interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201eThese ideas are very interesting and we need to discuss them,\u201c said the Russian president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kusturica, on the other hand, thanked Putin for what he called \u201ehistorical justice.\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201eI want to thank you for your personal historical justice, which we Slavs have always had. What is happening in Ukraine now is a fight for us. We saw what happened with Bandera in Croatia when they expelled 230,000 Serbs. I think this analogy is very important for everyone,\u201c said the director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that he plans to shoot a \u201eRussian triptych\u201c of three films based on the writers Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, and Leo Tolstoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201eI have an idea to make a triptych in the New World, a Russian triptych, three films. The first is called The Engineer of Light Walks \u2013 that is my contemporary version of Dostoevsky. Then my version of Gogol's How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich \u2013 very funny and I think it is important to do that now. And the third film is Leo Tolstoy's The Cossacks, Kusturica stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that he plans to end his career after working on the \u201eRussian Triptych\u201c and the film \u201eLaurus\u201c based on the work by Yevgeny Vodolazkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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