The screening in Cuba of the film "Battle for Sevastopol" marks today the start of a Russian Film Week, which will feature the presence of a cultural delegation from that European country.
The screening in Cuba of the film "Battle for Sevastopol" marks today the start of a Russian Film Week, which will feature the presence of a cultural delegation from that European country.
From September 21st to 27th, the Charles Chaplin cinema, in Havana, will showcase seven films produced from 2012 to 2015: "Champions", "Road to Berlin", "Speaking of the Devil", "Iron Ivan", "Vasilisa" and "Territory", besides the aforementioned opening film.
These features can be grouped into four categories: war movies, sports, comedy-science fiction and adventure.
"The Battle for Sevastopol" is inspired by real-life Lyudmila Pavlichenko, an Ukrainian sniper in the Red Army during World War II, a conflict in which she eliminated 309 Nazi soldiers.
That woman became the first Soviet citizen to be received by a US president, and it just the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor, who invited her to tour the country to recount her experiences and, in the film, she appears as main narrator.
The director of the film, Sergei Mokritskiy, producer Natalia Mokritskaya, and Nikita Tarasov, one of the actors, will present the film in Cuba.
Along with them arrived the actors Vasily Mishchenko and Marianne Schultz, as well as the representative of the Kinofest Producer Centre, Yulia Bragina, whose organization is sponsoring this film week in coordination with the Russian Embassy and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry.
Source: PL