Russia is a great territory for "crowd pleasers": Til Schweiger scored a major box-office success there with Guardians [+leggi anche:
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The selection includes several commercial successes fresh out of their national theatrical runs, such as Fatih Akin’s Tschick [+leggi anche:
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The Russian public will also be able to discover Combat Girls [+leggi anche:
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The two documentaries on the programme are Annekatrin Hendel’s Fassbinder [+leggi anche:
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The Festival of German Films will again be held at the same time as the ArtDocFest in Moscow, with German Films supporting the participation of the German titles on the programme. Langemann’s above mentioned work on the Russian political artist Petr Pavlensky (as a free man and while in jail) will in fact be shown at both events with the director in attendance, and has been selected as the opening film for ArtDocFest.