At the festival “Window to Europe” the actor will every day to look at the two films.
Artur Smolyaninov
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Gosha Kutsenko
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Artur Smolyaninov entered the jury of the festival
“The window to Europe”, which started in Vyborg. In seven days he will have to watch
11 contest pictures. It turned out, Smolyaninova-a movie that’s not scary, “I
enthusiastically accepted the invitation to become jury member, but not because I
I want someone to judge, I just love to watch movie and can watch it
continuously all day. And then I will be able to do it in a few
a privileged position”. Arthur is waiting for the movie alive, about life, about people, with
it doesn’t matter how it is interpreted. And if the house he can throw
to watch a bad movie, the festival will have
to watch it to the end.
Vladislav Flyarkovsky
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Tatyana Kolganova
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The jury of the main competition together with Smolyaninova
entered Directors Yusup Razykov and Roman Karimov, St. Petersburg actress Tatiana
Kolganova, as well as a translator, writer and blogger Dmitry Puchkov
(“Goblin”). Chairman of the jury was the playwright Rustam Ibrahimbekov. The verdict
the jury will make at the closing ceremony on August 12.
The festive opening ceremony as always started with bright
and noisy procession of residents and participants of the festival on the streets of the city. The opening film of the jubilee festival has become
documentary Garik Sukachev “that’s me” — about his journey
on a motorcycle in the Altai.
Aristarchus Of Wines
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Garik Sukachev
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This year the main competition promises to be very interesting
because it is dominated by pictures of young filmmakers and debutants. There are three
representative of creative dynasties: as a Director debuted Pyotr Todorovsky
with the film “love story”; Olga Popova, the Director’s daughter of the Faith watch, will present
the film “Girl with a scythe”; its fourth painting, entitled “the Anatomy of betrayal”
show Nicholas Dryden, the son of actor Sergei Dreyden.
The opening of the festival
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Also in competition will take part the films have already been awarded prizes
— a tape of Alexander hunt “As Vic the Garlic was carrying Lech Pin in a nursing home”
(winner of the festival in Karlovy vary) and the biopic “harms” of Ivan Bolotnikov
(prizes for directing and cinematography of the twentieth Shanghai international
film festival).
Bari Alibasov and Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina
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The President of festival Armen Medvedev
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Special attention was focused on the Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina and
Bari Alibasov, who appeared together at a stellar track. Music
the producer admitted that at the film festival in Vyborg he comes for the third time. But
not to watch a movie. “This is one of the most comfortable and sincere
film festivals, said Alibasov. On the other there is
competition, and here the filmmakers come to enjoy fellowship, there is very
friendly atmosphere”.
Bari Karimovich surprised, by the way, the unexpected statement. “I
last movie was in 1967, and since 1989 is not watching TV.
— said the producer. Modern cinema is a business. I — free and
happy is the man who takes pleasure from people and not from
manufacturers and businessmen”.