The meetings with Lidia Bobrova, film director of the studio “Lenfilm”, opened the project of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve “Foreign Evenings” implemented within the framework of the Year of Culture in Russia. It is planned to continue this program in 2015.
Spectators could see three movies. The film “I Believe!” was screened for representatives of the veterans’ organization of the museum on October 1. A meeting of local residents and guests of the town with Lidia Bobrova and screening of two more movies took place on October 2. Vologda’s journalist and film expert Natalya Serova conducted the events.
The film “Babusya” was about the fate of an elderly woman who devoted all her life to her grandchildren, but was alone in old age. It is notable that not a professional actress, but villager Nina Shubina played the leading part in the film. However, it is the peculiarity of Lidia Bobrova that usual people perform in her movies along with professionals.
Spectators of different age – pupils of the Kirillov school, students of the Vologda Regional Training School of Culture, middle-aged people and pensioners – gathered in the conference hall. Having seen the film, they assailed Lidia Bobrova with questions. They were interested in the biography of the actress who played the leading part, the shooting process and the directors’ plan for the future.
In the evening, people met with Lidia Bobrova once again and saw her movie “In That Country”. It is about residents of a remote village – the characters that are typical for almost every film about the Russian province: a chairman, collective farmers such as milkmaids, cattleman and their families. Amateur actors – inhabitants of the Verkola village of the Archangelsk region - were also involved in this movie. Lidia Bobrova told about all of them answering the spectators’ questions. After the discussion, they expressed their gratitude to the director for the presented works.
