Krasnoyarsk feels like Florence in some ways. It can be admired from lovely observation decks on the hills. There is a picture-perfect river that divides the city, although the Yenisei is three times wider than the Arno. Beautiful natural surroundings literally embrace the residential areas. It takes up to thirty minutes to reach the ski slopes. When locals are asked, "Where is the taiga?", they smile and point to the nearby woods. Russian feature Serf breaks records at foreign box office
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21.01.2020
Photo credit: shot from Serf (2019) by Klim Shipenko
Klim Shipenko comedy Serf (Kholop in Russian) has earned more than a million dollars in the foreign box office. The feature showed the best results in Germany and Serbia. Serf was also watched by spectators from several countries of Europe, the Baltic States and Israel. The comedy already beats Hollywood features at the domestic box office and can potentially become the highest grossing Russian movie in history, TASS reports.
Serf has become the most successful of all the Russian features screened in Germany and is now second most popular Russian movie in Serbia.
Russian viewers watched Serf on the eve of the New Year holidays. At the end of December and January, more than nine and a half million viewers watched the comedy, the film brought to its producers the overall sum of 42 million dollars.
Serf even broke the Russian market record of such Hollywood blockbusters as Avengers: Endgame and The Lion King.
The comedy tells about the representative of the "elite youth" who finds himself in a village of the 19th century, recreated at the request of his father, who wants to teach his son a lesson and save him.
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Krasnoyarsk feels like Florence in some ways. It can be admired from lovely observation decks on the hills. There is a picture-perfect river that divides the city, although the Yenisei is three times wider than the Arno. Beautiful natural surroundings literally embrace the residential areas. It takes up to thirty minutes to reach the ski slopes. When locals are asked, "Where is the taiga?", they smile and point to the nearby woods. 
Rasul Gamzatov, a nationally acclaimed Avar poet, was born on September 8, 1923, 100 years ago. He was the author of "Cranes", perhaps the most touching song lyrics about war and fallen soldiers. Mr. Gamzatov did not write in Russian. Thus, we know his poetry through translations of other Russian poets. Nevertheless, one of his friends said, "Translators are unable to think up anything here".