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Russian Week Kicks off in Southern France

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Russian Week Kicks off in Southern France


17.03.2010

March 17 a Festival of Russian Culture kicks off in Southern France, The Voice of Russia reports. The event runs as part of the Year of Russia in France.

It is the seventh time that the French town of Tarbes hosts the festival “Russian Week: Russian Culture Yesterday and Today”. The event is organized each two years by the local theatre Ore Bleu.

Among the films to be demonstrated during the festival are Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Eisenstein, Tzar by Pavel Lungin, Everyone Will Die, and I Will Remain by Valeria Gai-Germanika, Glamour by Andrei Konchalovsky, and The Twelve by Nikita Mikhalkov.

The drama playbill presents Ivan Turgenev’s classical play A Month in the Country and a post-modernist play by Vladimir Sorokin Dostoyevsky-Trip.

The festival program also comprises a series of concerts featuring music by classic and contemporary Russian and European composers.

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