Photo credit: shot from Odessa by Valery Todorovsky
A week of Russian cinema takes place in Berlin, the website of the Ministry of Culture reports. For the fifteenth time, the most interesting works of Russian directors were presented to German viewers. This year the festival was included in the program of the large-scale Russian Seasons project.
The program of the film forum brought together fourteen features that differ from each other in themes and genres. The forum opened with Odessa by Valery Todorovsky. The action takes place in the 70s of the last century, when the cholera epidemic began in the city.
Balkan Frontier by Andrey Volgin, dedicated to the events in Yugoslavia in 1999 and the fight of Russian special forces with terrorists, is also included to the program. Viewers will also watch Bull by Boris Akopov and In the Port of Cape Town by Alexander Veledinsky - the film’s script is based on a real story that happened with the director’s father in the Far East in 1945. In addition, it is planned to show the debut work of Alexander Zolotukhin A Russian Youth and Oscar-nominated Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov.
Russkiy Mir
