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Russian Pop Duo Tatu to Star in New Movie

Russian pop duo tATu will star in a movie biopic, directed by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields, The Mission, Super Mario Bros).

Popularity: 100% [?]

April 12, 2007

Three Hollywood Studios to Make Film About Poisoned Russian Spy

Three Hollywood studios plan to make a film about Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy poisoned last November in London.

Popularity: 2% [?]

January 19, 2007

Hollywood Plans Film Based on Litvinenko’s Book

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A book co-written by Alexander Litvinenko, the murdered former spy, which alleges that the Russian government was secretly behind bombings that killed 300 people, may be made into a film, The Sunday Times reports.

Popularity: 3% [?]

December 25, 2006

Russia Says Borat Movie Not Banned

Russia’s government agency for culture and cinematography refuted earlier reports alleging it had effectively banned distribution of Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan from theaters across Russia, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.

Popularity: 2% [?]

November 9, 2006

Russia Banned Borat Movie

Russia has banned the hit comedy film, Borat, which has been accused of poking fun at Moscow’s neighbour and close ally Kazakhstan, BBC reported.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Bondarchuk’s Epic Starring Rupert Everett and F. Murray Abraham Reaches Russian TV Screens

Celebrated Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk’s efforts to bring the prize-winning novel “And Quiet Flows the Don” to the big screen in the early 1990s fell apart after the Soviet collapse. More than a decade later, his work is finally about to see the light of day, after being completed by the director’s son Fyodor, a well-known Russian director in his own right.

Popularity: 2% [?]

November 7, 2006

Bear Attacked Swedish Filmmaker

Swedish wildlife filmmaker Erik Fernstrom was in Russia shooting a film when he was attacked by a bear. The incident occurred during the production this summer of a film called “The true face of the bear”, The Local online daily reports.

Fernstrom’s film is based on scientific research about the logic behind bears’ behavior. Armed with this knowledge he knew how to react when a brown bear suddenly turned on him and his crew.

“Nine out of ten times brown bears attack just to scare you. We just stood our ground,” he told the paper.

“Of course I was scared. But the bear will only attack if he is wounded or protecting his prey. He kept coming at us. He was pushing the limits. But so were we. He came to within 5-10 meters of us.”

Fernstrom also described how bears often follow in the tracks of berry and mushroom pickers just to have a look at what is going on.

“They get quite close. They are curious about who you are,” he said.

But they rarely show themselves. Attacks are infrequent and casualties rare. But a wounded bear will not hesitate to strike.

“A hunter in the north of Sweden was killed by a brown bear a couple of years ago. The hunter’s dogs scared the bear out of its den. It seems that the man then wounded the bear and was attacked and killed.

”The story has been in the news recently because the man’s family have tried to get compensation from the state. Apparently you can get compensation for a dog that has been injured or killed by a bear. But you can’t get compensation for a family member,“ Fernstrom said.

Popularity: 2% [?]

October 27, 2006

“Playing the Victim” Won Top Prize at Rome Film Festival

“Playing the Victim” by Kirill Serebrennikov, a critically acclaimed theater director in his native Russia, was named best film among the 16 movies in competition. They were mostly art-house titles by new directors.

Serebrennikov’s film is a family drama centered on a young student who uncovers the mystery surrounding his father’s death.

The jury also gave a special prize to “This is England,” British director Shane Meadows’ story of a 12-year-old boy befriending a group of skinheads in the early 1980s.

In different ways, both films explore the confusion and disillusionment of younger generations. They were chosen by a 50-member jury made up of ordinary film-goers and supervised by Italian director Ettore Scola.

“Neither of these two very beautiful films is commercial but I hope both will reach the big audiences,” Scola said at the award ceremony.

Serebrennikov said his film — adapted from a play by the Presnyakov brothers — was a film “for Russia and for Russians.”

“We still believe that cinema can change people’s way of thinking and their consciences,” he said.

“I think my film is an artistic portrayal of what is passing through the minds of people in Russia today: terror, hope, insecurity.”

Popularity: 2% [?]

October 24, 2006

Spielberg’s New Movie About Holocaust Survivors in Ukraine

A documentary film based on the accounts of Holocaust survivors in Ukraine can help undermine activists who try to deny the attempt to eliminate European Jewry, U.S. filmmaker Steven Spielberg cited by Reuters said on Wednesday.

Spielberg, whose grandparents came from Ukraine, co-produced “Spell Your Name” and was attending its premiere after visiting Babiy Yar, the site outside Kiev city center where the Nazis slaughtered more than 33,000 Jews in two days in September 1941.

“In order to create an undeniability about the Holocaust, these survivors, 52,000 of them, need to be shown to students all over the world,” Spielberg told a news conference.

“Tolerance is born of education. everything comes from what we learn. It all depends on who our teachers are…All hatred starts with fear. And we have experienced a century of fear and I fear we are going into another century of heightened fear.”

The film, co-produced with Ukrainian industrialist Viktor Pinchuk, brings together poignant accounts from Jews who survived and Ukrainians who sheltered them.

Yuri Pinchuk relates how he last saw his mother in a ghetto after she had helped negotiate his safe passage out. Polina Belskaya describes emerging from a mass grave.

Irina Maksimova winces at the memory of a German soldier removing a crying infant from a truck, smashing its head and hurling the corpse back into the vehicle. She then tells how her family took in and concealed 16 Jews.

Director Sergei Bukovsky intersperses the accounts with images of life in towns and villages through the seasons.

Spielberg, making his first trip to an ex-Soviet state, said his background made him feel very much at home in Ukraine.

“This is not a foreign culture to me at all. This is a very familiar culture. I got off the airplane today and said ’I’m home!”’ he said.

“I was brought up in a home where grandparents only spoke Russian and Yiddish…I kind of felt I had a piece of Ukraine in my own home, especially around dinner time.”

Spielberg said showing the film would build understanding of the Holocaust in Ukraine, where Soviet versions of history downplayed its scale. He explored the subject of the Holocaust in his acclaimed “Schindler’s List.”

He said he had been moved by his visit to Babiy Yar, one of the first sites of mass wartime killings, where the Nazis ordered Kiev’s Jews to gather 10 days after seizing the city.

No monument stood at the site until the 1970s and it was not until the end of Soviet rule that a monument to Jewish victims was erected. Gypsies, partisans and other victims were later shot there, with the total number believed to exceed 100,000.

“I had mixed feelings to be quite honest because the epicenter of Babiy Yar is a train station…,” he said.

“I had a very tough time picturing what that place looked like 60 years ago and why it had changed so much. I was then able to see some pictures in books…get my bearings and my geography and go to the monuments.”

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October 19, 2006
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