Not just censorship, but looking at what happened with Tarkovsky, being exiled for simply not returning to the USSR. I know Hollywood did the same at the time regarding film 'guidelines', I'm just curious if there's more context to the USSR's rather strict attitude with film? Or is this just western propaganda I'm swallowing?
It’s one of those things, some part censorship, but some part like editing in creative process. You always hear about auteurs who has struggled, but won, with implied how many didn’t, but at the same time how much shit didn’t get made :shrug-outta-hecks:
Studio system was kinda interesting, they have fixed rates for everyone salary wise, so basically monetarily calculation on studio was: will this be popular? Will it pass censorship? Tarkovsky was kinda (if I remember correctly) in same position as war and peace director, make popular shit to have good will to make his own stuff