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Article: DIGGING UP RARE RUSSIAN FILMS LABOR OF LOVE FOR PROGRAMMER.(Arts and Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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First year Seattle International Film Festival programmer Maryna Albert has provided this year's festival with its most unusual American premieres.
``Eye of Glass'' and ``The Young Lady and the Hooligan,'' a pair of silent Russian short features, were literally excavated from Gosfilmofond, a Russian film archive with more than 150,000 films from all over the world.
``They don't have a database, you have to know what you want when you go there. You sit down, you ask for a few things, and they bring in a little library card with some information. So you have to dig around.''
And dig she did while in town for the 1999 Moscow Film Festival. ``I ...