Adventures in Filmmaking in the New Russia

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Michael York has earned acclaim as a skilled Shakespearean actor. He’s also starred in several films and TV productions over the past four decades, from “Austin Powers” to “The Forsyte Saga.” But in Are My Blinkers Showing, he explains that none of his previous work quite prepared him for the unexpected adventures of shooting an independent film in post-Soviet Russia.

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