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Berlin international film festival of "Berlinale" proceeds. The competitive movies shown in the second day, partly rely on tradition, partly grow from the present. The balance of festival programs between these poles is estimated by Plakhova Helena. The movie Bovua Xavier "Albatross" is executed on canons of the French poetic realism. Laurent, the sergeant of a police station in the picturesque town Etreta on the coast of Normandy, at the height of the conflict to the local farmer, wishing to rescue it from suicide, on tragic combination of circumstances itself actually kills him. Laurent's career falls not so much even...