As one of the activities for the "Year of Russia" in China, The
Retrospective of Russian Cinema will open on May 29 in the
Beijing-based China Film Archives (CFA), with 17 Russian films to
be shown during the festival.
The selection of movies were from 15 Russian directors,
including Aleksandr Sokurov, Serghei A.Solovyov and Yegor
Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky who are familiar with Chinese audiences,
according to Zhan Yan, a spokeswoman with the CFA.
The upcoming movies, ranging between 1966 and 1997, include
seven made before the Soviet Union broke down in 1991, she
said.
During the festival, actors of The Dawns Here Are Quiet
(1972), Vadim Abdrashitov, director of Pyesa dlya passazhira
(1995) and Vremya tantsora (1997) and Aleksandr
Pankratov-Chyorny, director of Vzroslyy syn (1979), are
expected to come to meet their Chinese fans, she added.
The eight-day festival is sponsored by the China State
Administration of Radio, Film and TV and the Russian Ministry of
Culture.
According to the agreement achieved by the governments of China
and Russia, China hosts the "Year of Russia" in 2006 while Russia
hosts the "Year of China" in 2007.
(Xinhua News Agency May 23, 2006)
