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Costume designer Elena Okopnaya won an award for outstanding artistic contribution for costume and production design at the Berlin Film Festival, TV Channel Vesti reports. She received the Silver Bear award.
Elena Okopnaya believes that this award will have a positive impact in the film future. Romanian drama Touch Me Not directed by Romanian director Adina Pintilie received the Golden Bear.
Let us remember, Berlinale independent jury awarded Alexey German Jr for his feature. The movie is dedicated to life and creative career of the well-known Russian writer. The plot is about 4 days in 1971, spent by Dovlatov in Saint Petersburg.
The director showed on the screens many traits of that historical period, such as Saigon café in Leningrad, considered a cult rock n' roll club, Lenfilm studio and legendary Bolshoi drama theatre in the period of its flourishing. The film shows scenes of talks between the main character and the young Joseph Brodsky, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature.
The main part was played by the Serbian actor Milan Maric. Besides, Danila Kozlovsky, Svetlana Khodchenkova and others are starring in the movie. Russian spectators will watch the movie in March 2019.
Russkiy Mir
