The 15th film festival “Window to Europe” opens today in the city of Vyborg. The competitive programme involves new Russian films which are to be released in autumn.
      
      The festival will screen Pavel Chukhraj’s Russkaya Igra (Russian Game), a modern version of The Gamblers by Gogol, Zheleznaya Doroga (Railroad) by Aleksey Fedorchenko who became famous for his film Pervye na Lune (First on the Moon) (2005), Nochnye sestry (Night Sisters) directed by Aleksei Muradov and written by the classic of Russian melodrama Valentin Chernykh, Sergei Makovetsky’s benefit performance in Iskushenie (Temptation) by Sergey Ashkenazi, Slushaya tishinu (Listening to Silence) by Aleksandr Kasatkin, Artistka by Stanislav Govorukhin and four more films of various genres and merits.
      
      There is no obvious potential leader among these ten films, the fact making the work of the jury headed by the Mosfilm director Karen Shakhnazarov more complicated.
      
      In addition to feature films, 20 documentaries and 17 animated cartoon films have been put forward for the award of the Window to Europe.
      
      The film festival will open with the blockbuster Mongol by Sergei Bodrov Sr., and close with the chamber autobiographical war drama Agitbrigada “Bei Vraga!” (Agitprop brigade “Fight the enemy!”) by Vitali Melnikov.
      
      Source: newsru.com