Photo credit: a shot from "The Cranes Are Flying" by Mikhail Kalatozov
Films on military themes, shot at the legendary Mosfilm studio, will be shown in Rome from December 19 to 22 as part of an online festival. The program includes films shot in the pre-perestroika and post-Soviet times, which have received worldwide fame and awards from the most authoritative international festivals, the newspaper Na Zapade Moskvy reports.
The platform will host screenings of such films as "The Ballad of a Soldier", "Ivan's Childhood", "The Cranes Are Flying", "They Fought for the Motherland", "White Tiger" and others. The organizers of the festival noted the interest in film screenings, one day over 1,000 viewers registered on the website.
The festival will be held by Mosfilm and the Institute of Russian Language and Culture in Rome. Earlier Mosfilm film festivals were held in Brazil and Vietnam. The audience saw films about the war, as well as popular Russian films of different years: "Girls", "White sun of the desert", "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" and others.
The screenings were successful, the films attracted the attention of thousands of viewers, and the organizers received rave reviews. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam highly appreciated the contribution of the Russian Cinema Week to strengthening cooperation between the countries.
Russkiy Mir
