Vyborg opened a "window on Europe"

The most urban of all the festivals. These days all Vyborg not just lives, goes hand in hand with the Russian cinema. On the opening day cheerfully, for marches, no matter what, the festival – held, though at first it seemed selectors – as the competition films this year will not be typed. The choice of Vyborg – is the movies that were not ready or for some other reason were not in the program of Sochi "Kinotavr" and the Moscow International Film Festival. But this festival, which is not summed up, and a new season. In autumn films shown here will go to the big screen, but the first meeting with the audience begins here, in Vyborg, where the entire city – one of the only movie theater. Film Andrei Smirnov, "Once upon a time there was a woman" saw only friends and distributors, journalists do not have any frame. The film, though not in competition, closes the festival. After 30 years, Andrei Smirnov, returns to directing this film, dedicated to one of the worst pages of history – the revolt in Tambov (Editor's note. Tambov uprising of 1920-1921. – One of the largest in the Civil War in Russia, popular uprisings against Soviet power, occurred in the Tambov province). "As to how the film corresponds to what was, in reality, I would say it pink. Because that was really the means of art can not be played. A man goes to the movies, not in order to hang himself, and if the play that was, you have to hang myself ", – said director Andrei Smirnov. But on opening day, but it is a holiday, which is waiting for a year, still showed the comedy "Five brides" by Karen Oganesyan. Right to marry for five, but to be honest. For the characters, a victorious warrior, trapped in Berlin in May 1945, when the whole country is building a new life, one chance not to be left without a bride – to send home another pilot, give him a passport and get married in absentia. "The essence of my role – a phrase that I say in the movie: Oh, a strong piece lawful marriage, the husband had never seen a miss. In my opinion – what a beautiful mistake "- says the actress Julia Peresild. The competition films – various topics, genres, designed for a different audience. About his debut in feature films and Andrei Zaitsev himself says that it is unlikely that his "slackers" to a wide audience, except in the movies would lead them nostalgic. The script, written in the early songs of Viktor Tsoi, the time that the director and calls "slackers," the age between 16 and 20 years of life in which nothing like doing, but it is full of incredible. "What I was just very dear to the script, this film is that it is absolutely natural, very alive, grew out of songs, it was not contrived, let's with nimem movie songs Tsoi, to attract the viewer, there were all alive, born itself, the songs gave birth to the script "- explains director Andrei Zaitsev. Vyborg not divide movies on the author, and mass. Here they say we just show the movie. This year's motto "The forecast for tomorrow." But on the first day of the festival for no one dares to forecast, even the most far-sighted with a local character – an octopus, it's not Paul, while only taking pictures and waiting for each contest day.