Kostya Kazenny

Posted on September 7, 2025

- Is it not... too hard?I'm asking Fernando Brutto about his thoughts on my plot. I want to make a video about a Soviet agent brutally interrogating a Brazilian communist where money was spent. And you understand this "brutality" in the context of our videos.- I think it's good enough, and I have the power to say that because my parents and grandparents were communists in that era, and that movie was also about their lives. I'm the one with the power to judge.This idea came to me after reading right-wing messages spreading on WhatsApp group chats, mostly between users living in conservative Southern Brazil states, saying that the lives of Brazilian communists in the early 1970s were shown too favorably. And in fact, supposedly, they had a good life on the Soviet money.We are talking about the film I'm Still Here / Ainda Estou Aqui.So, our short movie is a spin-off of that Oscar nominee with a plot that could offend both right- and left-wing activists.Hope, you enjoy it