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Article: `Sun' May Be New Dawn in Russian Film
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- May 19, 1995
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MOSCOW Winning an Academy Award has reversed the fortunes of many
stars. Can it work for Russia's ailing movie industry?
The Russian film "Burnt by the Sun" took the Oscar for best
foreign-language film for 1994. Mosfilm, once the crown jewel of the
Soviet film industry, hopes the Oscar will help it make a big-screen
comeback.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the
sprawling studio complex in Moscow that churned out thousands of
films in seven decades of Communist rule has fallen on hard times.
In its heyday, Mosfilm won worldwide acclaim for such movies as
Sergei Eisenstein's epics "Battleship Potemkin" and "Ivan the
Terrible." It also kept the Kremlin happy with such ...