Toronto -- Veteran Russian director Sergey Solovyev's "Anna Karenina," a film adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel, received its North American premiere Thursday night at the KinoArt Festival in Toronto.
The veteran director and "Karenina" lead Tatyana Drubich were on hand for Toronto's homage to Russian film, which includes two other Solovyev pics, the 80's cult-classic film "Assa" and its long-awaited sequel "Assa 2."
KinoArt founder and executive director Alla-Ani Poliakova said the festival aims to "chronicle the evolution of Russian films, past and present," by bringing that country's feature films, documentaries and shorts to North America.
Also unspooling in Toronto is Vladimir Bortko's $20 million period drama "Taras Bulba" from Russian studo Central Partnership, and a North American premiere for Liza Listova's "Metro," part of a Soviet Empire documentary cycle that in its latest installment chronicles the 1930s Stalin-era construction of the Moscow subway system.
Listova said she used animation,...
The veteran director and "Karenina" lead Tatyana Drubich were on hand for Toronto's homage to Russian film, which includes two other Solovyev pics, the 80's cult-classic film "Assa" and its long-awaited sequel "Assa 2."
KinoArt founder and executive director Alla-Ani Poliakova said the festival aims to "chronicle the evolution of Russian films, past and present," by bringing that country's feature films, documentaries and shorts to North America.
Also unspooling in Toronto is Vladimir Bortko's $20 million period drama "Taras Bulba" from Russian studo Central Partnership, and a North American premiere for Liza Listova's "Metro," part of a Soviet Empire documentary cycle that in its latest installment chronicles the 1930s Stalin-era construction of the Moscow subway system.
Listova said she used animation,...
- 11/6/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At the recent Russian Resurrection Film Festival, the organisers introduced a critics' jury, comprised of film critics, academics and filmmakers. And the inaugural prize went to Ward No. 6. One of the members of the jury, Filmink's own Julian Wood provides a film review below. Ward No. 6 Time 83 minutes Country Russia Directors Aleksandr Gornovsky, Karen Shakhnazarov Cast Vladimir Ilyin, Aleksei Vertkov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny Distributor Russian Resurrection Film Festival Worth $15.00/$15.50 Small is beautiful. Although a mere 83 minutes long Aleksandr Gornovsky and Karen Shakhnazarov's psychological drama packs a big punch. Largely this is down to the winning performance of veteran Russian character actor Vladimir Ilyrin as the protagonist Ragin (in the same year Ilyrin was in the acclaimed epic Taras Bulba).
- 10/16/2009
- FilmInk.com.au
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