DUSHANBE, August 11, 2008, Asia-Plus — Russian writer and documentary maker Sergey Govorukhin has shot his first feature film entitled “Nobody Except Us.”
The movie, telling civil war in Tajikistan and Russian motorized rifle division 201 that was deployed in the republic, will presented at the festival of Russian films in Vyborg, Window to Europe, Russian news agency RIA Novosti said.
Speaking in an interview with RIA Novosti, Sergey Govorukhin said that he would like to tell the war in Tajikistan, which is not yet well-kown, and servicemen of Russian motorized rifle division 201.
Window to Europe Russian Films Festival has taken place in Vyborg since 1993 when famous Russian cinema producers Savva Kulish and Marlen Khutsiev together with music composer Mikhael Tariverdiev, documentary films producer Vladimir Konovalov and several other Russian producers including Gevorg Nersisyan and Andrey Simonov decided to gather in the city of Vyborg. The idea of turning the main prize of the film market festival (this was the initial title of the festival) into support of film promotion was readily accepted by State Cinema Authority of Russia presided over at the time by Armen Medvedev. The same state authority helped generate the title of the festival: Window to Europe.
Every year the festival is visited by the best representatives of the Russian culture: film directors and critics, actors and singers, musicians and artists, pressmen and politicians… The festival is always a holiday. It includes premieres of new films and demonstration of films that participated in other festivals, but for the Vyborg spectators it is still the premiere, audience is waiting for these pictures.
The Vyborg festival consists of three competitions by tradition: fiction films, documentary films and animation films. These three competitions demonstrate the best works, created during the period since the last Vyborg festival till the present one.
The winners of the «Window to Europe» festival were the pictures «Makarov» by Vladimir Khotinenko, «Dreams» by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Borodyanskiy, «Passions» and «Chekhovs Motifs» by Kira Muratova, «Summer People» by Sergey Ursulyak, «Calendula Flowers» by Sergey Snezhkin, «Wedding» by Pavel Lungin, «Taurus» by Alexander Sokurov, «The Cuckoo» by Alexander Rogozhkin, «A Walk» by Alexey Uchitel.
