Yalta International Movie Festival

Recently I was invited to Yalta for the International Movie Festival that took place there and lasted 8 days. There were many countries showing their films at the festival and a lot of representatives and actors from these countries came to Yalta. I called it the Yalta conference. We all stayed at the beautiful hotel where all the members of the original Yalta conference also stayed. After the renovation the hotel really looked impressive. The opening and closing ceremonies were held at the palace which Alexander the third built on the top of the hill from which the whole town and the sea presents a wonderful picture. The place looked like a theater scene.
There were rather many films shown at the festival but for me the most impressive was the movie “Russian Gambling” directed by Pavel Chukhrai, the son of a famous Russian cinematographer. The film is based on a play by Gogol called the gamblers. The organizers of the festival promised to bring the movie to New York for the New York Film festival. The festival will take place at the Tribeca Theater on October 12th. A lot of prominent Russian actors, all of them young representatives of contemporary Russian film makers, will attend the event. It promises to be a very exciting week for the city of New York.