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Message to Man International Film festival opened at Palace Square

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Message to Man International Film festival opened at Palace Square


18.09.2017

State HermitageInternational Film Festival Message to a Man is held in Saint Petersburg, TASS informs. The gala opening ceremony took place at the historical city center – the Palace square.

Visitors could see the reenacted version of the movie by famous director Dziga Vetrov Man With a Movie Camera. Specialists from Holland were reconstructing the movie. The copy presented by Vetrov to Dutch Filmliga society at the beginning of the thirties was a basis of this reconstruction. Demonstration of the movie was accompanied by Tavricheskiy symphony orchestra performance headed by Mikhail Golikov. The musicians played compositions, which sounded at the premiere in spring of 1929.

More than seventy movies are included into the festival programme. They were carefully selected of seven thousand applications sent from eighty-five different countries. They will compete for the victory in three nominations such as International Contest, National Contest and Contest of Experimental Short-Length Films In Silico.

Five specialized programmes and three retrospectives wait for their spectators.

According to film director Alexei Uchitel holding the office of festival director spectators have a unique opportunity to familiarize themselves with those breathtaking films, which couldn’t be seen elsewhere.

The festival winners will be announced on September 19.

Russkiy Mir

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