Word: voropayev
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...Kiss - Off the Record is a big, sloppy, and cloying smooch to the Russian President - and to Russians enthralled by his uplifting image of the motherland. "It's a film on family values - and we want families to watch it at home together," the film's producer Anatoli Voropayev told the audience at the single Moscow preview earlier this week. He said he was forgoing a cinema release and going straight to DVD "because we want the film to reach people across the country, where movie theaters do not exists, not just in the cities...
...There may be more than mere St. Valentine's romance (or even crass commercial motives) at play in the new film's appearance right now. A Kiss - Off the Record was made in 2003, but shelved, Voropayev explains, to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest after he became a civil servant later that year. He has since served as vice-governor in two Russian regions. Voropayev resigned in December, so he says he thought it quite proper to release this movie at last. That may be true. But Voropayev may well figure that it can't hurt to send...
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