ITALY AND RUSSIA TO COLLABORATE IN CINEMA INDUSTRY
(VELINO) Roma, 17 Mar - Italian Ambassador to Russia, CesareRagaglini, visited the Mosfilm studios in Moscow. During thetour the ambassador met Karen Shakhnazarov, director of thecentre, and discussed the prospect of future Italian-Russiancollaboration in the cinema industry, with a special focus onrelaunching co-productions and initiatives to improve thedistribution of Italian films in Russia. Mosfilm, founded in1923, is one of the oldest and largest studios in Europe, wherethe great classics of Soviet cinema were produced, includingworks by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein. After a period of crisis inthe 1990s, Mosfilm became - and