Russian film festival begins with Chinese movie

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Moscow, June 23 (UNI) The 28th Moscow International Film Festival is being inaugurated today with an award-winning Chinese director Chen Kaige's 2005 mega-budget fantasy epic -- The Promise.

Internationally acclaimed Kaige, whose ''Farewell My Concubine'' was the first Chinese film to win the Cannes Festival's top Palme d'Or prize in 1993, will be honoured with a life-time achievement award, the organisers of the festival said.

Seventeen films will be competing this year for the main prize of the festival, the Golden St George for Best Film, as well as for Silver St Georges for Best Director, Actor and Actress.

The highlights of the 2006 main competition line-up include new work from France's Bertrand Blier (How Much Do You Love Me?), Hungary's Istvan Szabo (Relatives), Chile's Raoul Ruiz (Klimt), America's Robert Towne (Ask the Dust) and Britain's Jeremy Brock (Draiving Lessons).

Alexei Muradov's The Worm is the only Russian entry, despite the increasingly rapid growth of the country's film industry.

Acclaimed Polish movie director Andrzej Zulawski will chair the Festival's competition jury, comprising Russia's Alexei Uchitel, the director of last year's winner, Dreaming of Space, British actress Julie Christie, who starred in a 1965 Hollywood production of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and French critic-producer Pierre-Henri Deleau.

The festival will run a parallel debut competition and a world documentary programme. It will be concluded on July 2 with Pedro Almodovar's Volver.

The Moscow Film festival, launched in 1935, was registered by International Federation of Film Producers associations (FIAPF) as an "A" class festival in 1972.

UNI XC SK RS1817

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