Category Archives: Releases

International project filled with wisdom and sunshine irony

Post-production of Kazakh-Kyrgyz-German-French melodrama The Song Of Southern Seas has been started in Germany. It’s a touching ironic feature directed by a prominent Kyrgiz film director Marat Sarulu.

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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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Russian Priest Starring As Rasputin In “Conspiracy”

Father John (Ivan Okhlobystin) performs the role of Rasputin in Stanislav Libin’s feature Conspiracy.

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International Screenings For Russian Documentaries

Good Russian documentaries do not sell well in Russia, however, some of them are of great demand worldwide. Professional buyers work with Russians using their ideas, creativity, original vision and cultural background. And some enthused Russian filmmakers cooperate with emigrants, who work as promoters or even distributors in their countries. Sergey Zaitsev, director of Moscow-based […]

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