It wasn’t easy for Elton John to convince producers to keep all the scenes in his new biopic, “Rocketman.” But he convinced them. Maybe not everywhere, though. Russia’s version looks dramatically different than the movie being shown in other countries. The World’s Lucy Martirosyan reports.
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