Michael York is off to make the biggest independent film in Russian history, an action film called Moscow Heat. With a self-deprecating wit, an eye trained on the imponderables of day-to-day life (especially in faraway places), and with an increasingly alarmed sense of how the new Russia, for all its capitalist trappings, is becoming ever more like the old Russia under an ever more autocratic government, York has crafted an insider's account that transcends genre. There's much here to be found about the actor's craft, and about Russia then and now--but most of all there is the pleasure of the company of a witty and articulate observer of people, places, and the adventure called moviemaking.--From publisher description.