Between 2015 and 2017, US filmmaker Oliver Stone spoke for hours on end with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This resulted in his four-part documentary series THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS, in which he and Putin discussed political developments and potential scenarios for war in a comfortable (overly) familiar tone, that saw him being accused of making propaganda for Putin. Building up to a movie date between them, the two watch and discuss one of Stone's favourite political-themed films, Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE. And that’s not all that was strange...
