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XXVII Moscow International Film Festival: Day 5

The Festival continues and the list of films to see grows. Every day has at least 5 high ranking suggestions to pay some attention to. Let’s see what today brings us.

Also, let me take this chance to correct myself. I said previously that the Festival spans 5 days. This is not true. The Festival continues for more than a week, with 6 days dedicated to movies. Tomorrow will be the last movie showing day of the Festival. I misread this information when I posted it the first time.

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Konrad Wolf – film director

While going through the movie list for Moscow Internation Film Festival I’ve noticed that the name Konrad Wolf appears a lot and is often associated with high ranking films. I decided to do a check on IMDb and here is what I found.

Konrad Wolf was originally German, but left for USSR with his family. He returned to Germany in 1945 as an officer in the Russian Army (German fighting German nazi). He has made a number of films, mostly war related.

Here is a list of his movies which are rated above 7:

Lissy from 1957, ranked 7.4/10.
Sterne from 1959, ranked 8.9/10.
Ich war 19 from 1968, ranked 8.4/10.
Sonnensucher from 1972, ranked 8.3/10.
Der Nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz from 1973, ranked 9.3/10.
Mama, ich lebe from 1977, ranked 8.8/10.

The big question now is where can I find any of these movies here in Cyprus? And with English audiotrack or subtitles?

XXVII Moscow International Film Festival: Day 4

The Festival continues and so do I. There are 32 films on display for today. As always, try to choose from those on top of the list. If you have any information regarding films on the bottom of the list, please share with me via comments. I will than upate all those N/A fields. Enjoy.

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Heist

Heist (2001) Watched “Heist” on DVD.

Directed by: David Mamet
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, Patti LuPone, Alan Bilzerian, Richard L. Friedman, Robert Lussier, Mark Camacho, Michelle Sweeney, Elyzabeth Walling, Mike Tsar, Jim Frangione
IMDB raintg: 6.5
My rating: 6.0 [rate 6.0]

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XXVII Moscow International Film Festival: Day 3

As the Festival continues, I continue to “fix” the Festival’s program. It seems that the program for previous Festival days disappears as well. This is really stupid. I know that having only the current and upcoming days is easier for the users, but 30 films a day is a list that noone will be able to see. Perhaps people would like to rent the movies later. A simple link to all the movies would be so much better…

Rants and complains are over now and the list of today’s movies follows.

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