Mestetsky's shorts started winning awards at prestigious film festivals back in the late 2000s, however, until last year he was known in Russia more as a scriptwriter than director. Mikhail wrote ...

not those who don’t know how to make movies but claim to make independent pictures," he noted. In 2012, in Mikhalkov’s words, there were 1,000 movie theaters in Russia, while in 2016 there ...

A Summer to Remember (Mosfilm; Kingsley) is a Russian film, the 16th in the current exchange program, that will surely surfer at the U.S. box office from the painful pre-release publicity devised ...

A Russian cinema has stopped screening UK comedy The Death of Stalin, which was earlier banned by the government. Moscow's Pioneer Cinema said it had been forced to act for "reasons beyond our ...