The French actress was a guest of the festival “Message to man”.
Isabelle Huppert shot out of a cannon at noon
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“Half of my family for a long time already Russian. And now my
the relationship with Russia will be even stronger,” — thanked the organizers Werner Herzog.
His new work “On the Internet: dreams of the digital world” was the opening film
festival.
Last weekend at the Palace square in the Northern capital was held
opening of the XXVI International festival “Message to man”, the guests of honor
which became the German Director, playwright and actor Werner Herzog, and French
film star Isabelle Huppert. A visitor from Germany became the winner of the prize “For contribution to
world cinema honorary award was presented to him by the President of the festival,
Director Alexey Uchitel and Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander
Talkers.
Leading the opening ceremony was Maria Shalaeva
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Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Huppert presented in St. Petersburg a scandalous
drama Paul Verhoeven’s “It” with his participation. This painting opened the program
hits “Movie Hyper-real”, which will show the most high-profile premieres
world auteur cinema: films “the Apprentice” Kirill Serebryannikov, “Toni Erdmann”
Maren Ade, “Lucifer” Gusta Van Den Berg, “Sierranevada” Christi Puiu, “Unknown”
from the Dardenne brothers and other tapes.
Alexei Uchitel and Isabelle Huppert
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And on Sunday Huppert visited the Peter and Paul fortress
at noon she put her torch to the gun, a shot which announces the noon in North
the capital. This honor trust only the most famous guests that come in
Saint-Petersburg.
On Palace square gathered thousands of spectators
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The opening ceremony of the festival, by the way, pleased and
music lovers. Musical numbers the audience gave the participant of show “the Voice” Emil
Kadyrov, accompanied by Alexey aigui and Ensemble 4:33″. And the evening ended
a concert by Yuri Shevchuk and the group DDT.