Rumors say Rurik Kokoshka abandoned the studio to become a monk in Valaam Monastery. Others say he moved to Berlin and works as a urologist under a pseudonym. The most cinematic theory? He deliberately burned the negatives of his last film, Requiem for a Samovar , claiming "the film was breathing wrong."
Suddenly, the internet went feral.
But have you heard the whisper bouncing around the darker corners of Slavic film forums lately? kokoshkafilm