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Come on, calling him Russian and using the Polish spelling of his name. And also, forgetting that he was from Lithuania.

He was born in Moscow and made all his movies of the 1910s (both animated and live action) at the Aleksandr Khanzhonkov's studio. He might be of Polish ancestry, but he is a Russian director alright.

His ansectors were the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth nobility who fought against the Russian Empire who took over their country and sent many of their friends to Siberia. He started his career in Russia because of opportunities, but the rest is typical cultural appropriation.

Don't known about his parents' friends, but Starevich didn't fight anyone, he worked happily at the Moscow studio as a Russian director. Same as Scorsese being an American, not Italian director, or Nakache & Toledano who are French directors, not Jewish/Algerian/Morrocan.

Thank you for these words. I'm so tired sad to see how people try to get rid of everything showing Russia in humane way&creators' origins or places of birth get erased if it's Russia yet many ppl r proud to be american-insert-any-nation-here.Politics should be kept away from art.

He was born in Russia to Polish parents because Poland didn’t exist at the time, does that mean that every person born then wasn’t Polish since there was no Poland? He lived in Estonia, Lithuania and France as well, and this film was made in France.

I already told another person. I didn't intend to erase his other origins. Just keep russian origins as long as others. I'm tired from erasure of all russian in line of sight bc of politics.

what russian orgins are being erased? he’s being called a russian filmmaker despite only being born in russia & living in lithuania for his childhood and working in lithuania, russian & france, & again he couldn’t have been born in poland because poland literally didn’t exist so

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