'Everything became a lie, a performance' - Werner Herzog on Soviet Russia

The German director is championing Georgian film-maker Rezo Gigineishvili's movie about the dying days of the USSR. But, he says, he won't be drawn into contemporary political debates What was Stalin like when he was ill? Did he have stomach pains? Did it make him sad? In Rezo Gigineishvili's film Patient #1, a frail communist leader in the 1980s Soviet Union seeks urgent answers to these questions as he feels his life slipping from him. But the comrade he calls from his hospital bed provides no...