7 superstars in the history of the Moscow film festival: from Sophia Loren to brad pitt

It seems that for the first time in many years Russia is not coming actors in the world.

Elizabeth Taylor and Gina Lollobrigida, 1961

Photo: TASS

Just a few minutes at Pushkin square, star
carpet at the cinema “Russia” will be the first guests of the 38-th Moscow
international film festival. Recall that the MIFF is among the oldest film festivals
in the world and is in the category of “A” class. That is why in the past years
the festival came the stars of the first magnitude, beginning with Federico Fellini, Jean
Marais, Yves Montand, Robert de Niro.

In the new Millennium at the MIFF frequent guests were
Hollywood celebrities. So, in Moscow was visited by will Smith, Charlize Theron, Shia LaBeouf, Sean Penn, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Adrien Brody. Celebrities with
pleasure came to Russia, because the movies with their participation are usually opened
screenings at MIFF. But this year the opening film will be the picture of the Russian
the Director Sergei Solovyov “Ke-Dy”. And a stellar track only expected
Patriotic stars…

While there are last preparations before the opening of the next
The Moscow film festival, we will remind you of the Golden days festival. In the magnificent
“seven,” according to 7days.ru entered the bright
visits of international celebrities.

Elizabeth Taylor and Gina Lollobrigida, 1961

In that year the world stars were ready to pay fabulous
money to get to Moscow. It was here they had the chance
to meet the first person who in April 1961 went into space.
Elizabeth Taylor was happy when her husband Eddie Fisher presented to the jury
Gagarin. Of course, film stars have chosen for this event your best dress. But
it turned out that the same outfit was brought to Moscow and Gina Lollobrigida. And
two stars who donned the same dress, came face to face at the reception
in the Kremlin. “Hello, sister.” — greeted each other with a laugh, Elizabeth and
Gina. This incident immediately entered the history of the festival.

By the way, Lollobrigida, which decades later again
came to Moscow at the invitation of Nikita Mikhalkov, mindful of the fashion embarrassment that in advance
appealed to the Russian designers and chose a evening dress, sewn
in a single instance.

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