Oliver Stone told The Guardian he was not going to “lecture these people about how to run their country”. Photo: Matt Crossick/PA Wire
Oliver Stone told The Guardian he was not going to “lecture these people about how to run their country”. Photo: Matt Crossick/PA Wire
Director Oliver Stone has rejected accusations of promoting powerful autocrats after releasing an eight-part film about Nursultan Nazarbayev, the former president of Kazakhstan. The first two-hour instalment of Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, premiered in capital Nur-Sultan last week.
“Call Nazarbayev what yo u want," Mr Stone tweeted. “You’ll find him to be a modest man explaining the Soviet empire’s demise and his important country’s transition to an independent nation.” Stone told The Guardian he was not going to “lecture these people about how to run their country”.