RETROSPECTIVE OF BEST SOVIET AND RUSSIAN FILMS IN LONDON

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LONDON, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - A retrospective of the best Soviet and Russian films starts in London on Saturday on the premises of the National Art Gallery.

According to the organizers, the project, bearing the name `Mother Russia`, was put on track with the help of the Rossica Academy, a fund for promoting Russian arts and culture.

The viewings will be held in one of the Gallery's halls on Saturdays, with the tickets distributed free of charge before each show.

The retrospective will open with "The Soil", a silent film made by director Alexander Dovzhenko in 1930. The program of the retrospective (scheduled to run through August) also features Andrei Tarkovsky's `Mirror` (1975), `Stalker` (1979), `Solaris` (1972), and `Nostalgia` (1983), as well as Mikhail Kalatozov's classic `Cranes Are Flying`. It also includes Western films about Russia - Clarence Brown's `Anna Karenina` (1935) with Greta Garbo in the leading role, David Lean's `Doctor Zhivago` (1965), and Akiro Kurosawa's `Dersu Uzala` (1975).

Alexander Sokurov's `The Russian Ark` (2002) and Andrei Zvyagintsev's `The Return` (2003) will close this impressive festival of the Russian cinema.

In addition, the retrospective's program features a number of lectures on Russian arts, poetry and culture.

The organizers point out that this display of the best Soviet and Russian films is held concurrently with a major art exhibition `Russian Landscape at the Time of Leo Tolstoy` which opened in the National Art Gallery on June 23. The exhibition displays 70 works by 15 Russian artists of the XIX century, including Shishkin, Kuinji, Levitan, Venetsianov, Shchedrin, Nesterov, Polenov and others. The paintings represented at the exhibition have come from Moscow's Tretyakov Art Gallery, St.Petersburg's State Russian Museum as well as from museums of Russian art in Nizhny Novgorod and Kiev.

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