It has been almost six years since Oleg Sentsov was arrested in his home in Crimea in May 2014. He was accused of operating a terrorist cell and was sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony.
In 2019 he was released in connection with a prisoner exchange and has since traveled around as an opinion maker.
- I almost didn't rest at all. I started working the other day. I travel, am active, discuss and utilize the interest that exists for me.
Created in the penal campOleg Sentsov says that he continued to create while he was imprisoned in Russia. He is a film director and says he now has three completed film screenplays.
- I brought with me 15 notebooks that I had filled in the five years. There are movie screenplays, two novels, the diaries of the hunger strike and little else small and good. So I don't have to write anything for the next three years.