The actor was awarded a prize at the festival of horror films. Andrey Sokolov has made an invaluable contribution to the development of Russian industry of horror. His reward was considerable.
Andrey Sokolov was awarded an unusual prize. The actor has handed over two kilos of blood. Award film festival of horror films “Drop” looked very impressive. It was a platinum statuette in the form of a large drop of blood, encrusted with diamonds, worth 3,000 euros. This significant prize he received in the framework of the solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the VI Russian international film festival of action movies and horror movies.
The organizers of the “Drops” Sokolov highly appreciated for her role in “blood Drinkers,” the film adaptation of the novel of Alexey Tolstoy “the Ghoul”. In the mystical Thriller about vampires, which was filmed in 1991 by Director Evgeny Tatarsky, Andrew has played the lead role of Prince Alexander of Runescape.
“I want to exist to this festival for many years. And it is right that leading the ceremony is a psychologist – he is always useful” – joked the artist, receiving the award from the hands of one of leaders of ceremony, the psychologist Svetlana Refractive.
Recall, for the six-year history of the festival “the Drop” was, perhaps, a major event in the horror cinema of Russia. The awards ceremony is held annually since 2010 and is an analogue of a famous British Horror Festival. Russian fans of this genre called the festival “Drop” “real horror” and “the most frightening event in my life”.
Every year “the Drop” finds the audience best picture about vampires, werewolves, maniacs and other characters that cause the horror. In a competitive festival program 2016 participated 45 genre films from horrormeister from countries such as France, Germany, Canada, China, Serbia, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, Ireland, Iran, Singapore. Of these, nine films from American Directors, seven from the British. The same amount of movies with frightening horror presented by Directors from Russia.