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13.07 - 15.00 Moscow Cinema, Red Hall
15.07 - 1200 Nairi Cinema, Large Hall
2006, Russia/Kirgizia/France/Germany, 104 min.

Armenian Panorama
Feature

Script: Ekaterina Tirdatova, Dir.: N. Egen, Dir. of Phot.: D. Ermakov, Compos.: A. Aigui, Sound: A. Trotsky, V. Timshin, Prod. Evgenia Tirdatova.
Cast: N. Regner, B. Tentimyshov.

There is great excitement in Aidar’s home one fine day when he comes back from Paris to his mountain village with a charming French girl called Isabelle. Aidar has changed but everything at home has remained the same. Lake Issyk-Kul sparkles silver and turquoise, the air is so pure it tinkles and the snow-covered summits of the mountains sparkle in the sun. Isabelle cannot understand how Aidar could leave such beauty behind and why he cannot tell everyone that she is his fiancee. But shades of the past, embodied in the grim figure of the local postman, give Aidar no rest. A threat hangs over the couple’s love.

Ekaterina Tirdatova

Born 1977, Moscow.
Scriptwriter. In 1998 graduated from the Scriptwriters Department of the VGIK (A.Gabrilovich and N.Ryazantseva’s workshop). In 2001 finished postgraduate courses at the VGIK, chair of cine-dramaturgy. In 2003 graduated from the Film Directing Department of the Shchukin Higher Drama School (A.Vilkin’s workshop). Worked as an actress at the “Obraz” Theater from 1993 to 1995 and from 1995 to 2001 at the Mossoviet Theater. Since 2000 has been working as a copywriter in the advertising business. At present she is a deputy creative director of the sACG advertising groups. She is the author of many commercials and clips and the scripts for the short film Sanzhyra, directed by Nurbek Egen, and the 24-part serial The Formula of Happiness. She’s just finished scripts for TV films Kamenskaya-5 and D-r Pirogova which are now in production.

Filmography
Sanzhyra, The Formula of Happiness, Secret Sign

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Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.

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Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965.

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