Photo credit: shot from The Cranes Are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov
The classics of Russian, Soviet and world cinema, shot at the Mosfilm film studio, will return to large screens in dozens of countries around the world this spring. 25 states are already included in the project, and there are more to come. The Russian film studio will time the large-scale project to the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Mosfilm website
reports.
Spectators in China, Germany, Italy, Israel, South Africa, Argentina, Panama and other countries will watch Ivan’s Childhood by Andrei Tarkovsky, Come and See by Elem Klimov, The Cranes Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov and other world-famous features that have undergone digital restoration. War films shot by modern Russian directors - Karen Shakhnazarov, Nikolai Lebedev and others, - are also included in the program.
According to the director of the Mosfilm Karen Shakhnazarov, there is a chance that the above-mentioned films can be screened on the leading television channels of the world, negotiations on are underway. Shakhnazarov explained that the goal of the project is to acquaint foreign viewers with the best films about the Great Patriotic War.
The first to show Soviet and Russian films are movie theaters in Indonesia, screenings will begin in March. In other countries, showtimes are scheduled for April and May; in Bordeaux (France), a retrospective show of military films of the USSR and Russia will be held in November as part of the Russian Film Festival.
Russkiy Mir
