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The week of Russian Cinema in Costa Rica |
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The week of Russian Cinema in Costa Rica took place in San Hose (the capital of Costa Rika) 5 -12 November. Proline-film studio presented there Alexander Sokurov"s film "Alexandra" that had great success.
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“The Orchard” at Arsenals |
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| “The Orchard” by Sergey Ovcharov was screened during the closing night of Riga International Film Forum Arsenals. |
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"The Orchard" is the winner of "Amur Autumn" |
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Anna Vartanian who played the main role in "The Orchard" won the prize as "The best actress" at the 4th Festival "Amur Autumn" in Blagoveschensk 14-28 September |
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"Alexandra" at "Love and anarchy" in Helsinky |
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International Film Festival "Love and Anarchy" takes place 18 - 28 September in Helsinky. During the festival "Alexandra" would be screened on 24 and 25 September. |
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"Alexandra" has been invited to the "In the family circle" festival |
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"Ine the family circle" is a national program, that includes the International Festival of family and children"s cinema. |
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"The Orchard" keeps on gaining popularity |
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After the premiere on the 30th Moscow International Film Festival "The Orchard" was invited to the plenty of film festivals. That is not amazing, as the film has been considered to be a new view of the Chekovs play and the cinematography itself. |
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"The Orchard" on the 4th IFF in Sevastopol |
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The 4th International Film Festival in Sevastopol takes place July 17-23, 2008. |
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"Alexandra" was invited to Norway |
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The film "Alexandra" by Alexander Sokurov has been officially invited to Bergen in Norway. The festival wants to invite Mr. Sokurov and would love to have him participate in a Master Class.
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"The Orchard" on 30th Moscow International Film Festival |
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| June 19 Moscow International Film Festival got started. The best films from all over the world are in the program of the festival. This year the film “The Orchard” directed by Sergey Ovcharov is in the Competition Program. Producer of the film is Andrey Sigle. |
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“Sobaka.RU TOP50: The most popular people of Saint-Petersburg” |
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26 May 2008 magazine SPb Sobaka.RU awarded the nomimamts of the award “Sobaka.RU TOP50: The most popular people of Saint-Petersburg”. Producer and cinema music composer Andrey Sigle also was in this list. He producer such films as “The sun”, “The Ugly Swans”. “Alexandra”, “Crime and Punishment”, “The Orchard”.
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| Sokurov’s ALEXANDRA: A Prayer for Peace |
| A film about war without bullets, bombs, or bloodshed — it’s difficult even to be convinced of “the enemy,” although Alexandra was shot on location in Grozny in the midst of the real war between Russia and Chechnya. But this we kno |
| Diane Sippl, Cinema without borders |
| 11 | 12 | 2007 |
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| ALEXANDRA- According to Alexander Sokurov and Andrei Sigle |
| Known as one of Russia’s most intellectual and spiritual filmmaikers, Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov was born in 1951 in the Siberian village of Podorvikha. He graduated from the History Department of Gorky University in 1974 and, in the same year, |
| James Ulmer, Cinema without borders |
| 03 | 07 | 2007 |
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| Elegiac Russian film looks at life in Chechnya |
| In Alexander Sokurov's elegiac new film, an old woman visits her grandson serving in Russia's breakaway republic of Chechnya, and she quickly becomes a magnet for soldiers and locals worn down by years of conflict. |
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