A Chechen Lear

In Chechen Society Newspaper, Timur Aliyev has edited and published an interview by Novye Izvestiya journalist Masha Dubova with Chechen film director Inal Sheripov about his plan to make a new screen version of Shakespeare's drama King Lear. The film will contain a faithful rendering of Shakespeare's text, with English names and placenames. The setting of the film will, however, be Chechnya - though the filming will be done in Krasnodar and at the studios of Mosfilm.