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 The ICAF, in association with the Russian Centre of Science and Culture, Chennai, and the Indo Russian Film Club, Chennai, has organised a Russian Film Festival, devoted to Victory Day, at the Russian Cultural Centre, 74, Kasturi Ranga Road, Chennai - 600018.
The festival was inaugurated by Stanislav I. Simakov, director, Russian Centre of Science and Culture, Chennai. K Rajagopal, (KRG), president, South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce, and R Veeramani, chairman, Gem Granites Group of Companies, were the chief guests. Asha Krishnan, film actress, lighted the traditional lamp.
Following is the schedule of the festival:
The inaugural film was '72 Metres' by director V Khotinenko, followed by 'The Star', by N
Lebedev.
'The White Sun of the Desert' will be featured May 9, at 6 p.m. It has been directed by V
Motyl.
'Wartime Romance', directed by P Tudorovsky, will be screened at 8 p.m.
On May 10, the film 'The Barber of Siberia', directed by N Mikhalkov, is to be screened at 6.15 p.m.
Synopsis
 '72 Metres'/2004 /colour / 110 minutes / action / thriller / Russian / Ukrainian
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko
Synopsis: The film begins in the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov (Basharov) and Muravyev (Ulyanov), are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fall in love with a beautiful girl, Nelly (Khamatova), and their friendship suffers a first blow. Because she picks Muravyev, his friend Orlov struggles with an inferiority complex and becomes a secretive alcoholic. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, both friends are transferred to the Northern Fleet on the Polar Ocean. One day their sub is performing a routine training. A disturbed WW II mine slowly moves on a collision course with the sub. A mighty blast knocks down everyone inside the wrecked sub, 72 meters below the sea level. Then ensues a nerve-racking struggle for survival.
'The Star' /'Zvezda' 2002 / 97 min / colour / history / war / Russian / German
Director: Nikolai Lebedev
Synopsis: The film is based on the book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi armies prepare a massive tank division named 'Viking' for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named 'Zvezda' is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi tank division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain death for the sake of victory.
Awards: 5 wins and 4 nominations
'The White Sun of the Desert' / Beloe solntse pustyni / 1970 / 90 Min / colour / action / comedy / Director: Vladimir Motyl
Synopsis: A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years. Just as he is about to return home to his wife, Sukhov is chosen to guard and protect the harem of a guerilla leader (Abdulla). Abdulla is wanted by the Red Army and left his harem behind because the women hindered him. Sukhov's task proves to be more difficult than he imagined...
 'War-Time Romance'/ Voenno-polevoy roman / 1983/ 90 min / colour / drama / romance / Director: Pyotr Todorovsky
Synopsis: This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion of an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter re-awakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding.
'The Barber of Siberia' / Sibirskiy tsiryulnik / 1998 / 177 min / colour / comedy / romance / Russian / English
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Synopsis: Richard Harris stars as a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Julia Ormond portrays his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, played by Russian star Oleg Menshikov, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.
Awards: 1 win
R Rangaraj
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