Film Festival

Film Festival (2006) is a comedy film directed by Vasili Pichul.

The musical follows events taking place at the Moscow International Film Festival, at the beginning of Perestroika. The plot focuses on Nikolay Vasiliev one of the many Interpreters hired to work at the festival by the imposing Margo Altshuller (who is in charge of all the interpreters). While working Nikolay meets and falls in love with a young and very attractive interpreter Marina Almazova. As hundreds of foreign guests arrive in Moscow, the KGB plots to discredit Hollywood star Richard Dirk. The KGB appoints Valya Kashina, to go undercover as a personal interpreter for Dirk. What follows is intrigue, romance, confusion and misunderstandings, all making for an unforgettable Moscow International Film Festival.

Cast

Nina Ruslanova

Anna Azarova

Yuri Kolokolnikov

Igor Vernik

Viktor Proskurin

Alika Smekhova

Daniil Spivakovskiy

Oleg Stefan

Elena Doronina

Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.

Sergey Glushko

Yanina Sokolovskaya