Pancake week cinema club

Soon comes Russian Pancake week or Maslenitsa, as Russians call it. It is amazing time when we eat lots of pancakes and have fun. 

It is also the last week before the Great Lent. The last day of this week is Forgiveness Sunday, the day when Russians traditionally forgive each other for the wrongdoings of the previous year.

These and other traditions of old Russia are brilliantly portrayed in a famous Russian film The Barber of Siberia which the Russian Cinema Club will be screening on the 21st of February (Tuesday) at 7pm. The screening will take place at the following address:Room 701, 7/F, Arion Commercial Centre, No. 2-12 Queen's Road West, Sheung Wan.

Admission is free, however please contact us in advance to reserve a seat (2598 8389 or 2teacher@rlc.hk).

The Barber of Siberia

(Сибирский цирюльник, Sibirskij Tsirjulnik) 1999 Production: Russia, 180 min.
Genre: Melodrama.

Jane Callahan, a beautiful American, writes to her son, a cadet at a famous military academy, but who is he? Her memories take us back 20 years to when she arrived in Russia to assist Douglas McCracken, an obsessive engineer who needs the Grand Duke's patronage to sponsor his invention, a massive machine to harvest the forests. On her travels, she meets two men who will change her life forever

Cast: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Richard Harris, Aleksey Petrenko, Vladimir Iljin, Marina Neelova, Anna Mikhalkova, Marat Basharov, Daniel Olbrykhsky, Avangard Leontjev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Evgeny Steblov, Leonid
Kuravlev. Director: Nikita Mikhalkov 
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СИБИРСКИЙ ЦИРЮЛЬНИК 
(The Barber of Siberia) 1999

Режиссер: Никита Михалков
В ролях: Олег Меньшиков, Джулия Ормонд, Алексей Петренко, Владимир Ильин, Ричард Харрис, Анна Михалкова, Марат Башаров, Никита Михалков, Леонид Куравлев, Даниэль Ольбрыхский, Авангард Леонтьев
Жанр: Драма

Действие киноэпопеи "Сибирский цирюльник" происходит в эпоху императора Александра III, редкую для России, да и Европы, эпоху без революций, войн и потрясений. "Сибирский цирюльник" - фильм для зрителей, которым жить в XXI веке. Он не о прошлом, а о Вечном для каждого из зрителей: о Жизни и Смерти, о Любви и Вере в торжество Добра. В этом смысле "Сибирский цирюльник" - воспоминание о грядущем.