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New Russian films will be shown in Slovakia in mid-December. A large-scale film forum will be held in 15-20 Slovak cities, Vladislav Kulikov, a spokesman of the Russian embassy in Slovakia, told TASS. Last week, a similar festival with great success took place in the Czech Republic. The Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic initiated it under the patronage of the country's President Milos Zeman.
Residents of Prague and guests of the Czech capital saw 22 Russian films released in 2017 and 2018 at the New Russian Film festival. Four cinema halls showed the pictures.
The program includes Russian cinema leaders and films that have won awards at national and international film festivals. For example, Czeck spectators saw Sobibor by Konstantin Khabensky, an Oscar nominee from Russia. Vladimir Vysotsky's 80th birth anniversary (the siger is well known and beloved in the Czech Republic) was marked in Prague with showing the film about him Vysotsky. Thank You for Being Alive. There were also documentary and animated films. Russkiy Mir reported that movie tickets were sold out before the festival began.
Meetings with Russian directors, actors and screenwriters did not attract less attention then films. The tickets for the meeting with science fiction writer Sergei Lukyanenko were sold out. He brought to Prague a new film based on his novel Rough Draft translated into many European languages.
Also within the framework of the festival, there was a round table where filmmakers from Russia and the Czech Republic discussed the current state of cinema and recalled joint projects that are the treasury of world cinema.
In addition to film screenings and meetings, culinary events with tasting Russian dishes were held as part of the festival, and a large fair of national products from Russia operated in one of the cinema theatres.
Russkiy Mir
