Filmmaker Marusya Syroechkovskaya’s How to Save a Dead Friend is a whirlwind of emotions: an homage to a silenced generation and to her lover and best friend Kimi, set against the rise of Russia’s authoritarian regime. Speaking with Hugo, Marusya reveals the toils and costs of making a deeply intimate film about grief and political suffocation — and why the only honest response to the impossibility of her situation was to pick up the camera and document everything before it was too late.
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