Main Prize of the Kinotavr Russian Film Festival Goes to the Movie Schultes
A short clip from Schultes
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The Main Prize of the 19th Kinotavr Russian Film Festival has gone to the movie Schultes by director and scriptwriter Bakur Bkuradze. This came in a statement during the festival’s closing ceremony on Sunday. According to Pavel Chukhrai, the chairman of the panel of judges, the festival is bound to support this kind of movie. In Schultes, the main character leads a double life. At present, he is a poor soul who lost his memory. In the past, he was a thief. The film is an attempt to understand his troubled personality. Mr Chukrai believed that the director’s point is to ask the audience if they think that they are any better than the protagonist.
16 June 2008
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Moscow’s Pushkin Fine Arts Museum to Take its Collection of Matisse to an Exhibition in Shanghai
The Dessert: Harmony in Red
Henri Matisse
1908
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Moscow’s Pushkin Fine Arts Museum is going to take its collection of paintings, drawings, etchings, and statuettes by the French post-impressionist artist Henri Matisse to a panoramic exhibition in Shanghai. The opening is due for 2010. The announcement came from the chief curator at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Dr Irina Antonova.
16 June 2008
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Book about Valery Gergiev Published
Maestro Valery Gergiev (1953- ), Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
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The book Valery Gergiev. Music. Theatre. Life, comprising statements made by the Maestro, was presented in St Petersburg’s Angleterre Hotel in the presence of Maestro Gergiev. The book is based on quotations from the conductor, his thoughts, and comments, presented in the form of a diary. Maestro Gergiev voiced the hope that the book would enable readers to get an idea of how much the Mariinsky theatre company has done over the years to push their theatre into a leading position on the world art music scene. In his opinion, the theatre exerts every effort to ensure that St Petersburg continues as a world cultural capital in real terms.
17 June 2008
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Third International Festival of Baltic Cities Due in St Petersburg
Interior of the Hermitage in St Petersburg
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The Third International Festival of Baltic Cities is due in St Petersburg. According to the festival director, Sergei Shub, St Petersburg came up with the idea of holding this kind of festival, since the city boasts much experience in staging this sort of thing. Art celebrities now pave the way for politicians, who sometimes find it difficult to meet each other halfway. The festival agenda features a roundtable discussion entitled Culture as a Universal Language in the Baltic Countries’ Dialogue.
17 June 2008
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Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater Begins a Week-Long Tour of Latvia
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A voice from the past of the Bolshoi, tenor Zurab Andjaparidze
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Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater begins a weeklong tour of Latvia as part of a festival of Russian culture opening today in this former Soviet Baltic republic. Last year, the Latvian National Opera Company performed in Moscow as part of a Latvian art festival in Russia. The Bolshoi’s tour kicks off a long series of Russian cultural events, concerts, and exhibitions to run throughout the summer.
17 June 2008
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Julio Iglesias Concert in Moscow Tonight
Julio Iglesias (1943- ), famous Spanish pop singer
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The famous Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias is kicking off a new Russian tour with a single concert in Moscow tonight, offering the audience a wide selection of new songs and old hits like Manuela, Hey, and El Amor. Señor Iglesias turns 65 in September; he says that this is his farewell tour. During his long career, Julio Iglesias has released a staggering 77 albums and has given almost 5,000 concerts.
17 June 2008
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Life in World Heritage Monuments Exhibition Opens in Moscow
Golden Twenties development in Berlin, designed by Bruno Taut, built 1927-28
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The presentation-exhibition Life in World Heritage Monuments. Residential Heighbourhoods of Berlin Constructivism opened in Moscow. The exhibition documents the history of the construction of settlements built to the design of the German constructivist architect Bruno Taut in Berlin and its suburbs in the 1920s. The travelling exhibition has already been in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Athens, and Glasgow, and is timed for the 125th anniversary of Herr Taut’s birth.
18 June 2008
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Solo Exhibition by Photographer Marina Antonova Due in St Petersburg
From the cycle ”Planeta Petersburg”
Marina Antonova
2008
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The magazine Digital Photo is due to launch a solo exhibition of the artistic photographer Marina Antonova in St Petersburg this coming Friday. The project, officially known as Planet Petersburg, is due to last for a whole year. Visitors will be welcome to enjoy the artist’s large panoramic canvases, of which some are more than 5 metres (@16 feet) long.
From the cycle “Planeta Petersburg”
Marina Antonova
2008
18 June 2008
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