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Russian cinema is presented in several programs of the Venice Film Festival, TASS reports.
Dmitry Mamuliya’s The Criminal Man participates in Horizons competitive program. In the opinion of the film director Alberto Barbera, the head of the Moscow School of New Cinema can be called one of the most interesting directors in the former Soviet Union. Georgian actors play in the film created with Russian participation.
The director himself promised that he would personally present the feature in Venice. He believes that getting into the festival program is a great reward itself. The life of the protagonist of the film - a young engineer George Mesh - changed dramatically after he became an accidental witness to the murder of a popular athlete.
Kalina Krasnaya film by Vasily Shukshin in the Venetian Classics program. It includes features from the gold fund of world cinema, restored with the help of modern technologies. Representatives of the festival reminded that the main thing in this competition was the quality of the digital restoration of the film from a technical point of view.
A documentary by Andrey Tarkovsky dedicated to the work of his father, a famous film director, will be shown within the same program.
The director from Ukraine, Sergey Loznitsa, will present the feature out of the competition, based on scenes from the historical newsreel, which shows three days after Stalin’s death. The Oscar winner, documentary filmmaker from the United States Alex Gibney will bring his new film about "Putin’s Russia". It will be shown outside the competition program.
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