Mikhalkov: MMKF suffered from sanctions © TV channel "Culture" Political sanctions against Russia were influenced by the 36th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF), Nikita Mikhalkov, President of the festival, said today, June 19. “The festival does not die,” he said at a press briefing at the Pushkinsky cinema, ITAR-TASS reports. - Problems came related to sanctions against us. Someone isware, someone is afraid. This affected the festival, I can’t hide it.

The film according to the script of Peter Todorovsky will be shot by the Polish director Meeting of American and Soviet soldiers on a bridge over the Elbu in Torgau on April 25, 1945 The widow of the director Peter Todorovsky and the producer of his last films of the world Todorovskaya reported that the director of the film according to the last scenario of her husband “Meeting on the Elbe” will be Janusz Petlysky (Poland). The film should be released to the 70th anniversary of Victory.

On June 28, the first exhibition called Casus Pacis as part of the parallel program “Manifesto” opens the street art museum in St. Petersburg. Now the exposition in the active phase of formation. Artists from Russia and Ukraine, invited to create it, are united by the general theme of war and the world. The gray walls of the former workshop, the beds from Ikei, the partitions made of polyethylene, the large cuisine-the whole street art community is collected here under one roof.

The Moscow International Film Festival opens © Gabriel Polsky / YouTube Frame from the trailer for the film "Red Army" Today, June 19, the 36th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) opens the Russian-American documentary for Soviet hockey. The main competition program of the festival included 16 films of directors from Germany, Israel, Switzerland, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, Greece and other countries.

The MMKF will show the films "Berlin school" © Heimatfilm GmbH frame from the film "Falls of the False Academy" From June 20 to 28, in the special program “Heaven over Berlin”, the Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) of the Goethe Institute will present the film work of the directors of the “Berlin school”.

On June 20, the show of Christian Petzold “Yella” in the Moscow Cinema “Illusion” opens the program “Heaven over Berlin”-a retrospective of films of the so-called Berlin school, prepared by Tatyana Kiryanova (Goethe-Institute) and Mikhail Ratgauz (Coleta.ru).

Andrei Bely's prize completed work in the old format © Andrei Bely Members of the Committee of the oldest literary award of Russia are counting on the creation of a new institution. On June 9, 2014, a statement by the members of the Prize Committee Boris Ivanov and Boris Ostanin, who announced the dissolution of the Committee and Organizational Change in the Prize structure, was published on the Prize.

Announced Long list of the Enlightener Prize Today, June 19, a list of 24 applicants for victory in the Popular Popular Award of the Enlightener 2014 season was announced in Moscow. Long List was announced by the co-chairs of the Organizing Committee of the Prize-writer and TV presenter Alexander Arkhangelsky and head of the Institute of Book Alexander Gavrilov.

TEFI-2014 finalists are identified Today, June 19, on the website of the Russian National Television Award TEFI published lists of finalists of the 2014 season. They were determined according to the results of the secret closed vote of the jury in the categories "Daytime" and "Evening Prime".

The incident took place in Kazan during the recent theater laboratory “City-Art-Poddovka”: in the city one could see the Finnish play above the car wash, German in the warehouse hangar, Russian at the construction change house. The theater entered the city. And now it rushes even further - and completely beyond the city line. Wanting whether or not, Kazan was at the center of the current theater trend.

The film "Children 404" will check the prosecutor's office © Project Reality / YouTube Frame from the movie "Children 404" The Moscow prosecutor’s office will check the documentary about LGBT teenage “Children 404”.

Horas Silver died © 1989, Dmitry Savitsky On Wednesday, June 18, at the age of 85, a jazz pianist and composer died in the United States, one of the pioneers of Funk and Hard-Bop Horas Silver. It is reported by The Los Angeles Times . Horaz Silver was born in 1928 in Connecticut, he began as a saxophonist, later switched to the piano. He received fame in 1950, when the Saxophonist Stan Getz, who recorded three plays of a young musician, took his group on tour.

A week later, in St. Petersburg in the State Hermitage, a manifesto nomadic from the city opened from the city to the city of Biennale of Modern Art. Over the past year, since it became known that the current Biennale will be held in Russia, this is Manifesta's decision Foundation has been repeatedly criticized. Several times it was proposed to boycott the exhibition. Many artists refused to participate in Biennale: for example, the group "What to do?" .

"Queen of Indians" won the Casta Diva Award © Alexey Gushchin / Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after P.I. Tchaikovsky scene from the opera "Queen of the Indians" Casta Diva winners are announced for 2013. In the nomination "Event of the Year", the opera "Queen of the Indians" of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater in the production of Theodore Kurentzis and Peter Sellars won.

COLTA . RU continues to cooperate with the project of Katerina Gordeeva and Alexander Urzhanov “Open Lecture”, within the framework of which public performances of famous representatives of social, scientific and creative thought are held at the Gogol Center. The poet, writer and screenwriter Yuri Arabov spoke at the “open lecture” on May 19.