{"id":33963,"date":"2021-07-11T18:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/11\/oliver-stone-film-ex-kazakhstan-president-nursultan-nazabayev"},"modified":"2021-07-11T18:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:13:47","slug":"oliver-stone-derided-for-film-about-modest-former-kazakh-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33963","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Stone derided for film about \u2018modest\u2019 former Kazakh president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-hour series about Nursultan Nazarbayev criticised for stoking cult of personality of 30-year ruler<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Stone has interviewed Kazakhstan\u2019s former president Nursultan Nazarbayev for a new eight-hour film series which has been attacked as a hagiography that contributes to the leader\u2019s cult of personality.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, Stone employs the same non-confrontational approach to interviewing autocrats that has made him a favourite of Vladimir Putin, Ukraine\u2019s former president Viktor Yanukovych and others seeking to polish their reputations by sitting down with the Oscar-winning director of Platoon and JFK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/11\/oliver-stone-film-ex-kazakhstan-president-nursultan-nazabayev\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-hour series about Nursultan Nazarbayev criticised for stoking cult of personality of 30-year rulerOliver Stone has interviewed Kazakhstan\u2019s former president Nursultan Nazarbayev for a new eight-hour film series which has been attacked as a hagiog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,69,262,2244,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","category-kazakhstan","category-nursultan-nazarbayev","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33964,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33963\/revisions\/33964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}