Film festival devoted to a hundred’s jubilee of the Great October Revolution will take place in London, RIA Novosti informs. The event is organized by British cultural Foundation Kino Klassika. The festival billboard contains both motion features by Soviet film directors and foreign motion movies on this subject.
Battleship Potemkin movie by Sergei Eisenstein will open the festival on February, 17. Radio presenter Max Reinhardt will introduce the movie, and musical band InstantOrchestra will improvise during the screening session.
Beginning of an Unknown Century film by Andrei Smirnov and Larisa Shepitko will be shown on the International Women’s Day. It was produced 50 years ago for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. The organizers reminded that this feature was forbidden in the USSR. The motion picture by Mikhail Kalatozov I am Cuba is also on the list of the festival events.
The central show of the festival is Eisenstein's cult film October. It will be screened in one of the most famous concert halls of the British capital – Barbican Centre. Silent movies will be accompanied by music of London symphony orchestra.
Lectures, seminars, meetings with film directors, screenwriters and cinema experts are planned in different British cities as part of the festival.
As we wrote before, a major exhibition Revolution: Russian Art from 1917 to 1932 was opened in the Royal Academy of Arts at the end of last week.
Russkiy Mir
