The opening ceremony of the 35th International Film Festival (MIFF) took place in Moscow's cinema "Rossia" tonight.
On the red carpet leading from the fountain on the Pushkin Square to the theater "Rossia", walked the directors Gennady Poloka, Vladimir Naumov and his wife, the actress Natalie Belokhvostikova, Vladimir Hotinenko, Alexander Strizhenov with his wife, actress Yekaterina Strizhenova, Yegor Konchalovsky, Irakli Kvirikadze Alexander Atanesian, Dmitry Mamulia, Paul Loungine, Janik Faiziev, Rezo Gigineishvili with his wife, actress Nadezhda Mikhalkova, actors Alexander Oleshko, Olga Kabo, Elena Zakharova, Marat Basharov, Irina Miroshnichenko, Daria Ekamasova, Olga Boudin, Konstantin Kryukov, Evgeny Stychkin, Olga Sutulova, Anna Chipovskaya, Maria Golubkina, Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Mikhalkov, Svetlana Hodchenkova, the head of the Variety Theater Gennady Khazanov with her daughter, Alice Hazanova actress, TV host Leonid Yakubovich, Evelyn Hromchenko, Alexander Pushkov, Marianne Maksimovskaya, Victor Vasiliev and his wife, actress Anna Snatkina, Vladimir Pozner, editor in chief of TV channel "Culture" Sergei Shumakov, co-owner of the studio "Glavkino" Ilya Bachurin with actress Ravshana Kurkova, writer Arkady Inin, a businessman Mikhail Kusnerovich, singers Nicholas Rastorgouev, Alexei Vorobyov, actress and a State Duma deputy Maria Kozhevnikova, designer Kira Plastinina, Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov, the head of the Cinema Fund Anton Malyshev, cultural counselor of the Russian president Vladimir Tolstoy, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, the members of the jury and some of the participants of the festival, RIA Novosti reports.
The guests were welcomed by the President and the MIFF director, Nikita Mikhalkov and his wife Tatiana.
This time, the star of the red carpet was Brad Pitt, who arrived in Moscow for the premiere of the festival - the zombie apocalypse "World War Z" directed by Marc Forster.
Moscow International Film Festival this year will be held from 20 to 29 June, 16 films are in the main competition program, including the film "Judas," directed by Andrey Bogatyrev, written by Leonid Andreyev, the crime drama "Slipping" from the advertising director Anton Rosenberg, black-and-white story from the 1920s "The Role" by Constantine Lopushansky featuring Maxim Sukhanov, and other films.
