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The Russian Embassy in Harare is set to host the Film Week to help give Zimbabwean audiences a greater knowledge of Russian traditional values and contemporary life.

The festival, which will run from November 15 to 20, is being organised with the support of the Harare Film Society and Reps Theatre. 

Films will be screened in Theatre Upstairs at Reps and include six films produced between 2010 and 2021. 

Content ranges from a love story to the military conflict in the Central African Republic.

The Russian Film Week will open with screening of “Bolshoi”, a 2017 film directed by Valery Todorovsky, telling the story of the ascent of a young provincial girl to the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.  

The film is about what a ballet dancer is afraid of most: time, since in her profession it flies quickly. 

This will also be screened as an afternoon presentation on November 20.

On November 16, “Flight Crew” will be screened. 

Directed by Nikolai Lebedev, this 2016 film is about a talented young pilot who does not easily accept authority and acts in accordance with his personal code of honour. He ends up in a crisis situation and has to evacuate people from a remote island.

The November 17 screening will be “Tourist”, a 2021 film directed by Andrey Shcherbinin that focuses on events of December 2020 when a group of Russian instructors, at the request of the Central African Republic government, arrived there to train soldiers. 

On November 18, a 2010 drama “Fortress of War”, directed by Alexander Kott will be screened. 

This is a Russia-Belarus co-production about June 22, 1941, when the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union sparked the Great Patriotic War.

On November 19, the Film Week stages the drama “Anna Karenina Story” by Vronsky, a 2017 production of Karen Shahnazarov. 

It is based partly on Leo Tolstoy’s 1877 novel of the same name and combines the stories by Vikenty Veresaev about the 1904 Russian-Japanese War.

On November 20, the final film will be a sports drama, “Three Seconds”, a 2017 production of Anton Megerdichev. 

It is about the outstanding USSR-US final match of the men’s basketball tournament of the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Entry to the films will only be by advance booking, which must be directed to cell/WhatsApp 0785 300144  or e-mail [email protected] .

Taking into account the Government’s measures to fight Covid-19, audiences will be asked to present their vaccination certificates at the entrance.