With the Russian accent

With What Russian accent the trace left a domestic cinema on Cannes international film festival 65 years ago, on May 18, 1958, the military drama Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozishvili The Cranes Are Flying won the first prize Cannes international film festival — "Golden Palm". The black-and-white tape still remains the only domestic picture which has won this award though for 75-year history of a festival only generally competition participated 86 Soviet or Russian movies. As domestic cinematographers caused a stir in French riviera — in a photo gallery of newspaper "Kommersant". The film festival debut in French riviera had to...