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New Zealand hosts Russian Resurrection Film Festival

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New Zealand hosts Russian Resurrection Film Festival


25.10.2016

The 13th Russian Resurrection Film Festival starts in Auckland, New Zealand, today. The films included into the festival program will start to be screened in Australia on Thursday, reports «Unification».

The program includes 20 films made in Russia over the recent years and Russian classical films. The festival will start with the screening of The Flight Crew by Nikolai Lebedev. Such films as Duelist by Alexei Mizgirev and Icebreaker by Nikolai Khomeriki are also to be shown. Children’s audience will see an animated film Sinbad: Pirates of the Seven Storms made by Vladlen Barbe, which has not been released in Russia yet.

Such classical films as Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944) by Sergei Eisenstein and King Lear (1971) by Grigory Kozintsev are also included into the program of the festival.

The Russian festival films are to be screened in Auckland (25-30 October), Sidney ( 27 October – 5 November), Canberra ( 1-6 November), Brisbane (2-9 November), Perth and Melbourne (10-16 November). For details go to Festival website.

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