A year in hospital and 90% lung damage: how Andrey Zvyagintsev survived Covid and came back to Cannes (opens in new tab)

Cannes film festival: The great Russian director of Leviathan, Loveless and The Return has overcome extraordinary obstacles to present his first film in nine yearsHis films have been hailed as damning allegories of the Russian population’s apathy in the face of state oppression. Yet when director Andrey Zvyagintsev learned of his country’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he too was paralysed, and literally so.A severe infection with Covid-19 had left the film-maker stranded at a clinic ...