Venetian international film festival opens rewarding of the director, whose movie with Xenia Rappoport will show out of competitions

On Lido's island the anniversary, 80th Venetian international film festival opens on August 30. The awards ceremony "Saint Mark's gold lion" "for a contribution to world motion picture art" becomes its first event — a figurine will hand over to the director Liliana Kavani. Among the most known pictures of a 90-year star of the Italian cinema — "The night porter", removed in 1974. The movie of the director of this year, "Time term" (or "Time order") in which the Petersburg actress Xenia Rappoport played, will show at a festival out of competitions. This year the main jury of the international film festival is headed by the author of the movie...