This reminds me that Roger Corman almost went to the USSR to make movies in the mid-60s:
'Then I met the official censor who evaluated all projects. I laid out my idea to this educated and gentle man. It wa set far in the future, beyond Cold War issues, a very technically oriented film. To this day, I find his response startling. "Very interesting idea," he said. "Science fiction is very popular here in the Soviet Union. I must caution you on one point. Many Soviet filmmakers come to me with science fiction ideas about the future. I must turn many of them down because their stories do not portray the future five hundred or a thousand years from now the way it is going to be. Even though I know you are working here in good faith with your capitalist education, it might be even more difficult for you to predict the future."'
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Date: 2011-03-22 01:47 am (UTC)'Then I met the official censor who evaluated all projects. I laid out my idea to this educated and gentle man. It wa set far in the future, beyond Cold War issues, a very technically oriented film. To this day, I find his response startling. "Very interesting idea," he said. "Science fiction is very popular here in the Soviet Union. I must caution you on one point. Many Soviet filmmakers come to me with science fiction ideas about the future. I must turn many of them down because their stories do not portray the future five hundred or a thousand years from now the way it is going to be. Even though I know you are working here in good faith with your capitalist education, it might be even more difficult for you to predict the future."'
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