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Cloud-Paradise (Nikolai Dostal) [MORE] [ADD] |
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A Tale of the Unextinguished Moon (Yevgeni Tsimbal) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Utomlyonnye solntsem (Burnt by the Sun) (Nikita Mikhalkov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Brat (Brother) (Aleksei Balabanov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Progulka (The Stroll) (Aleksei Uchitel) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vozrashcheniye (The Return) (Andrei Zvyagintsev) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Timur Bekmambetov’s Hollywood style fantasy horror Nochnoy dozor (Night Watch) is released. For a short period it becomes Russia’s top-grossing movie of all time. [MORE] [ADD] |
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At the MTV Russia Movie Awards, director Vladimir Menshov refuses to announce the winner when he discovers it is Alexander Atanesyan’s controversial WWII drama Svolochi (Bastards), declaring, "I'm not going to hand over an award to a film that discredits my country. Let Pamela Anderson do it instead." [MORE] [ADD] |
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Timur Bekmambetov’s Irony of Fate 2 – a sequel to the popular 70s Soviet classic – takes a record-breaking $35.7 million in its first two weeks. The film stars Konstantin Khabensky. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The comedy spoof Sammi Luchi Film (Very Best Film) which lampoons such Russian box-office successes as Day Watch and 9th Company, is released. It goes on to break domestic box-office records by taking $19.5 million in its first week on release. [MORE] [ADD] |
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11/2 - |
The Tom Hanks film Charlie Wilson’s War fails to win distribution in the country. [MORE] |
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13/3 - |
Industrial giant AFT Sistema and Russian World Studio announce a joint venture to create the country’s largest film and TV production company. [MORE] |
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18/4 - |
Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov ratifies a decision to privatise Russia’s oldest film studio, Moscow’s Gorky Studios. [MORE] |
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8/5 - |
Filmmaker Sam Klebanov announces he is to film a remake of Johnny To’s award-winning 2004 Hong Kong crime thriller Daai si gin (Breaking News), the first ever Russian remake of an Asian film. [MORE] |
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20/5 - |
The Federal Agency for Cinematography and Culture is closed following the appointment of a new culture minister. [MORE] |
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25/5 - |
Members of the Communist party call for a nationwide boycott of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in protest at the film’s depiction of the way Soviet troops are portrayed in the film. [MORE] |
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Organisers of the Moscow Film Festival refuse to bow to pressure from representatives of the Sri Lankan embassy in Moscow to cancel a screening of Norwegian director Beate Arnestad's My Daughter the Terrorist, a documentary about female suicide bombers in the Tamil Tigers. [MORE] |
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Marius Veisburg’s Hitler Kaput, a parody of the 1973 TV series 17 Moments of Spring storms the domestic box office despite protests from some lawmakers over its ‘tasteless’ content. [MORE] |
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7/10 - |
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin celebrates his 56th birthday with a tour of the £125 million Russian World Studios’ complex at St. Petersburg. [MORE] |
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8/10 - |
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledges funding for the domestic film industry and meetings between the Kremlin and industry representatives to improve co-operation and communication. [MORE] |
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Up to a third of film projects are postponed or abandoned as a result of the worsening international economic crisis. [MORE] |
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| 15/12 - | Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announces that he will take personal charge of developing the country’s film industry as Chairman of the government council on the progress of domestic cinematography. [MORE] | |||
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Fedor Bondarchuk’s Obitaemyi ostrov (Inhabited Island), Russia’s biggest budget movie ever, is released. Based on a 1968 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the sci-fi film tells the tale of a space traveller who lands on a distant planet mercilessly ruled by a gang of five sadistic leaders. Part two of the film is due in October 2009. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Russian box office receipts for 2008 total $830 million (£567.8 million), an increase of almost 47% on 2007’s figure of $565 million (£386.5 million). [MORE] | |||
| 2/3 - | The recently-formed Television and Cinema Producers Association recommend a cap on the wages of seven categories of actors and film crew in the face of a worsening economic crisis. [MORE] | |||
| 18/3 - | A Moscow court rules that the union congress which elected 83-year-old director Marlen Khutsiev president of the country’s filmmaker’s union in December 2008 acted illegally following a legal challenge led by Oscar-winning director Nikita Mikhalkov. [MORE] | |||
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Valery Todorowsky's musical Hipsters wins the Best Film prize at the 2009 Nika Awards ceremony at the Moscow Operetta Theatre. [MORE] |
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The Russian government presents the United States Library of Congress with digitally restored copies of 10 silent American films previously believed to have been lost. [MORE] |
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| 2011 | ||||
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Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko dies at her home at the age of 75. [MORE] |
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The selection of Nikita Mikhalkov’s film Citadel as Russia’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars causes controversy. The film was a critical and box-office failure, yet is chosen over festival prize-winning titles such as Alexander Sokurov’s Faust and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Elena. [ADD] |
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| 30/11 - | As Russia prepares to go to the polls, a political scandal erupts around accusations that Cyril Tuschi's documentary film Khodorkovsky has failed to gain distribution beyond one cinema in Moscow because of political reasons. The film tells the story of the oligarch Khodorkovsky, a vocally outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, who was imprisoned in 2003. [ADD] | |||
| 1/12 - | Pyotr Buslov's Vysotskiy. Spasibo, chto zhivoy (Vystosky. Grateful to be Alive), the story of legendary Soviet singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, is released. The film will make 650 million roubles in its first two weeks on release, making it Russia's most successful film of 2011. [ADD] | |||