For screen creators and cineastes, watching films from countries with alien ideologies is either fascinating or disgusting. The Nazi feature films of the 1930’s are crimes against humanity.
But, says Nadia Tass, his mother eventually fell foul of the Party, and was discarded by the time Oleg was 12 years old. The trauma shaped his life. ‘So that was a huge lesson to him, and he was completely against joining any political institution,’ Tass believes.
