Director Oleg Sentsov has become somewhat of an icon in Ukraine’s resistance against Russia. After being detained in Crimea and accused of terrorism, he was tortured and sent to a Russian prison, where he spent five years.
Deutsche Welle: Formerly imprisoned director Oleg Sentsov releases new film
A film director and ex-political prisoner Oleg Sentsov speaks with journalists in an underpass painted like a prison corridor during the presentation of the art project "Underground Despair", dedicated to 98 Crimean residents who were arrested after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia by Georgian artist David Kukhalashvili in downtown Kyiv on Feb. 8, 2021.
