How An American Magazine Editor Accidentally Became A Leading Russian Screenwriter

Michael Idov, former editor of the Russian version of GQ: “I don’t have a good answer for how I got here. Not only have I blindly managed to write Russia’s most popular feature film and one of its most-talked-about TV series of the year, but I managed to do it in 2015, when relations between the United States and Russia were at their coldest point since [the 1960s].”