Sergei Ursulyak to head Vyborg Film Festival – Kommersant
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At the closing of the 31st Russian Film Festival in Vyborg, it was announced that director, screenwriter and producer Sergei Ursulyak would become its president. Previously, this post for 20 years was held by film critic and film critic, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation Armen Medvedev, who died in December 2022.
It was Armen Medvedev who came up with the slogan of the festival “Russian Cinema – Forecast for Tomorrow”. In memory of him, the organizers established a nominal prize, which, starting this year, will be given to the film that won the audience vote. The painting by Anton Kolomeyts “Light” became its first laureate.
Sergey Ursulyak is a director of feature and documentary films and series, the most famous of which are Composition for Victory Day (1998), Liquidation (2007), Life and Fate (2012), Quiet Don (2015). He is the winner of numerous film awards and several state awards. This year, his film “Righteous Man” about the Soviet partisan commander Nikolai Kiselev, who saved more than 200 Jews during the Great Patriotic War, was released.
This year the festival was held under the name “Vyborg”, however, during the closing ceremony, it was also announced that it would return to its usual name, which it bore from 1993 to 2022 – “Window to Europe”.
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