it's of classic productions like the head marius barber of seville at the open twenty sixteen. times and as a film director his latest film. tells the story of two soviet rock stars in the one nine hundred seventy s. but things took a turn for the worse when an opus twenty seventeen karylle several brownie called was taken into custody by the accusations that he had been involved in embezzling state funding for the us charges he denies. and i'm delighted to welcome thomas alston my out here to the studio a well known director here in berlin currently working at the shop in a theater and of course a friend since many years of kit is said about any coffee mister also affect so much for coming in how surprised were you when you heard the news of his release today it was very surprising surprising to me because i was reckoning that things will get worse and anyway it's not the end of the story it's all there will be still the trial so we don't know just a lot going on he's he's just been allowed out of that very tight situation and you've worked with him many times in the past you