The 4th Russian Film Festival held between October 29 – November 7, 2010 in Apollo Cinema at Piccadilly Circus, London presents award-winning Russian films recently produced and screened in Russian with English subtitles.
The Main Programme
- The Ugly Duckling (Гадкий утенок) sparky animation by Garry Bardin banned from Russian television
- One War (Одна война) Vera Glagoleva’s touching war drama
- How I Ended This Summer (Как я провел этим летом) psychological thriller by Alexei Popogrebsky about Arctic Station researchers
- Truce (Перемирие) grim drama on provincial Russia by Svetlana Proskurin
- Reverse Motion (Обратное движение) Andrei Stempkovsky’s wartime drama.
- Gastarbeiter (Гастарбайтер) Yusup Razykov’s drama on labour migrants in Russia
- Sparrow (Воробей) Yury Shiller’s modern Russian drama on village life-style
- The Man at the Window (Человек у окна) tragicomedy by Dmitry Meskhiev
- The Golden Mean (Золотое сечение) action/adventure/mystery by Sergei Debizhev
- Star Dogs Belka and Strelka (Зездные собаки Белка и Стрелка) 3D animation about the Soviet space dogs by Svyatoslav Ushakov and Inna Evlannikova
The program also presents Irina Evteeva’s latest film: Little Tragedies (Маленькие трагедии), based on Alexander Pushkin’s verses and Petersburg (Петербург) and Faust (Фауст).
Animation
Retrospective of Garry Bardin’s Adagio (Адажио), The Banquet (Банкет).
Special Screenings
Films based on the classics by Leo Tolstoy: Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) by Protazanov, The Living Corpse (Живой труп) by Vengerov, Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) by Zarkhi, War and Peace (Война и мир) by Sergei Bondarchuk.
For more details and booking information enter www.rff4.academia-rossica.org or call 0871 2206000.
