Monthly Archives: April 2007

Soyuzmultfilm Studios: Glorious Past and Painful Present

71-year-old Moscow-based Soyuzmultfilm Studios still remembers glorious days. Over 500 employees including top Soviet film directors worked here. They released great animation films, which were of great success and still growing demand. According to the poll made by 140 animators and film critics all-over the world at Tokyo Animation festival Laputa in 2003, Yury Norshtein’s […]

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Merchandising Campaign Stars For «Ilya Muromets and The Vicious Nightingale»

To follow-up our review of a newbrand merchandising strategy from a popular Russian TV animation «Smeshariki», here’s another Russian film project

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Andrey Tarkovsky’s Anniversary

Moscow-based International Foundation of Andrei Tarkovsky launches a grand program to celebrate the 75-year Anniversary of this talented Soviet film director, who died in 1989 in Paris. Film Festival The 1st International film festival “The Mirror” will take place on July 6-13th in the town of Ivanovo (near Moscow), where Tarkovsky was born. Retrospective A […]

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