Screenshot of The Ascent film by Larisa Shepitko
A movie by the Soviet film director Larisa Shepitko called The Ascent was included into the bill of Venice Film Festival, according to the website of the Russian Ministry of Education. It will be screened as a part of the Venice Classics program to include also movies from the Golden Fund of the World Cinema renovated with modern technologies.
The head of Mosfim Karen Shakhnazarov has reminded that the main thing in this contest is a quality of digital renovation of a movie from the technical point of view.
All the movies are carefully chosen and the awards mean that technologies of the film studio match the world standards. A year ago, a legendary film by Elem Klimov titled Come and See was awarded as the best-renovated movie.
Restoration of the movie takes a lot of time and requires many financial expenditures, Shakhnazarov explained. Mosfilm director is covering these expenses himself. About 80 movies have been renovated by now.
As the Russkiy Mir Foundation reported earlier, the Russian cinema will be presented at another program of the film festival. A movie called The Man Who Surprised Everyone shot with support of Ministry of Culture was included into the Horizons contest.
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