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New Russian Film Week to unfold in New York

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New Russian Film Week to unfold in New York


04.12.2018

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New Yorkers will get the chance to see new Russian movies, TASS reports. Russian Film Week unfolds in the Big Apple on December 8-14 The festival consists of 15 movies, most of them will be shown overseas for the first time.  

Maria Shklover, the head of Vishnevyi Sad Festival fund and one of the film festival’s organizers, hopes that Russian movies will attract the residents of NY as well as Russian-speaking compatriots. 

The Festival starts with a large chidren’s show "Fiksiki. A Big Secret", the screening of the like-named catoon, games, contests and prizes.

The adult program includes the screening of  "IntoNations of Big Odesa" documentary. Director Susanna Alpenina is to present the film. 

Avdotya Smirnova will present her latest movie The Story of One Appointment, linked with the name of a great Russian writer Leo Tosltoi whose works are very popular in the US and all over the world. 

Another highly-anticipated movie is Anna Karenina. The Story of Vronskiy is to be presented by director Karen Shakhnazarov. Tolstoi readers already know Anna’s personality quite well, now cinema-goers will get to see this character from a new angle.   

The festival program includes Unforgiven, a drama based on a real life tragedy. The viewers will have the chance to meet the leading actor Dmitriy Nagiev. The world premiere of the next part of most successful New Year’s Eve comedy franchise in Russia Yolki. The Last One is also on the list. 

An Oscar-nominated Holocaust drama Sobibor by Konstantin Khabensky is going to be on view.

Actor Danila Kozlovsky is going to present two features, In the Neighborhood" and Coach, which is noted for Kozlovsky’s works both as a director and a leading actor. 

The tickets are already being sold out very fast, the organizers note. There is a demand from film and culture studies students. 

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