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Russian Resurrection 2010 Film Festival
The 2010 Program features 17 new films, plus a World War II retrospective commemorating 65 years since the end of the War.

Part of the War Retrospective will be timeless classics such as Tarkovsky’s award winning Ivan’s Childhood, Cannes Festival winner The Cranes are Flying and German’s anti-war masterpieces. Of the new films be sure to check out our World Premieres, Man at the Window and Parental Guidance, films which have not even been released in Russia yet! Then there is the historic epic Tsar, a lavish production about the reign of Russia’s infamous ruler Ivan the Terrible. It wouldn’t be a Russian Film Festival, if there were no deeply moving and emotionally driven dramas, so be sure to catch How I Ended Last Summer, One War and By the Rivers of Babylon. Hard Labor Vacation is a true Russian comedy, something that was hard to find in festivals gone by. And finally for something completely different be sure to see Russia’s latest fantasy action blockbuster Black Lightning and, for a REAL experience for kids and adults alike, no one should miss Belka & Strelka: Space Dogs in 3D – Russia’s first animated 3D film, which really is a lot of fun! Welcome to the seventh instalment of Russian Resurrection. Let the Resurrection Continue!

Welcome to the seventh installment of Russian Resurrection. Let the Resurrection Continue!

Following are some highlights of the festival...

The Cuckoo
Awards: FIPRESCI Prize (Moscow International Film Festival 2002) Silver St George Best Director (Moscow International Film Festival 2002) Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (NIKA Awards 2002) Audience Award (San Francisco International Film Festival 2003)

A few days before Finland went out of the Second World War in September 1944. Finnish sniper-kamikaze, Veikko managed to set himself free and Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Secret Police has a narrow escape. These soldiers of two opposing armies meet and are given shelter by Anni, a Lapp woman. To her, they are not enemies, just men. This is a beautiful portrait of human relations under intolerable conditions.

Kandahar
Based on true events, this film describes the capture by the Taliban in 1995 of an Ilyushin-76 freight aircraft in Kandahar. Accused of shipping arms the crew were imprisoned for over a year in Afghanistan and almost forgotten by the outside world. The story centres on the drama between the crew members and their captors while revealing and sometimes challenging contemporary attitudes. Along with casting some of Russia's finest actors the film is punctuated by intense action scenes

and stunning visual effects of the airborne Ilyushin-76. The high production values helped this film reach blockbuster status in Russia.

The special effects supervisor and crew for the film were Australian. Kent Miklenda met Andrei Kavun at the Russian Resurrection Festival in Sydney in 2006 where Andrei was showing his previous blockbuster ‘Hunting Piranhas'.

In 2007 they started work on the production of Kandahar together. There will be a special presentation of ‘behind the scenes' photographs from the production projected on the big screen after the film at selected sessions.

One War
Awards: Grand Prix for Best Film (Sofia International Film Festival 2010) Grand Prix & Audience Award (Honfleur, France, Festival of Russian Cinema 2009)

The film brings to light an unknown chapter in the history of World War II. May 8, 1945. Major Maxim Prokhorov of the NKVD arrives on a small island in northern Russia. There are eleven people there: five young women, five children (aged one to three), and a guard, Captain Karp Nichiporuk. The young mothers, each with her own tragic story, had been exiled to the island from territories occupied by the German Army along with their children who were fathered by German soldiers.

The arrival of the Major interrupts the casual life on the island. The Major has a task: clear the island and its inhabitants to make way for a training camp for saboteurs. A boat will soon arrive to take the mothers and their children away. Only the Major and Guard really know what will happen when the boat finally arrives the next morning.

Russian cinema has an uncanny ability to make pictures which portray the reality of characters experiencing sincere pain, ensuing every viewer is emotionally overtaken by a sense of righteous compassion. One War is a powerful example of such cinema.

Tsar
Set in 16th Century Russia, Tsar looks at one dramatic year from Ivan the Terrible's reign, and the confrontation between the Tsar and his close friend and head of the church, Filipp Kolychev. In a country riddled with riots and conspiracies to dethrone him, Ivan believes he is on a mission bestowed upon him by God: a mission to prepare the country for the end of the world.

He establishes absolute power and declares that "those who resist power resist God." It is up to Filipp to stand up to Ivan and challenge this reign of terror. Tsar challenges the "Ivan as nation builder" mythos that was built up in Stalin's reign and as a result has generated much debate not only about how we interpret History as a modern audience, but where we get our History from. Does it come from a book, the web, or the silver screen. Lensed by Clint Eastwood's cinematographer and included in the official selection of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Tsar is a big budget Russian epic.

Russian Resurection 2010 Film Festival
Dates and Venues:
Sydney 19/08 – 01/09/10 Greater Union Burwood & Event Cinema Bondi Junction
Melbourne 25/08 – 05/09/10 Palace Cinema Balwyn
Brisbane 01 –08/09/10 Palace Barracks
Perth 08–15/09/10 Event Cinema Innaloo
Adelaide 09–15/09/10 Event Cinema Marion
Canberra 15-19/09/10 Manuka
Official Site: www.russianresurrection.com


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