From    : Marcos Galounis 
To      : Newsdesk at Nostalghia.com
Date    : Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:36:53 +0100
Subject : Tarkovsky International Symposium

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ANNOUNCEMENT

ANDREI TARKOVSKIY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM


The Andrei Tarkovskiy Foundation in Moscow, the Athens Byzantine and 
Christian Museum and the International Relations for Culture organize 
the Symposium: ANDREI TARKOVSKIY: MAN, NATURE AND GOD on the 6th, 7th 
and 8th of December 2002 at the Byzantine Museum, in Athens.


Athens was chosen during the 1st International Meeting in Moscow in 1988 
as the most appropriate place to host the International Symposium on the 
year of the completion of 70 years from the birth of the famous Russian 
director who undoubtedly is considered one of the most significant film 
creators in the world.


The Symposium is carried out under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of 
Culture and the Russian Embassy and will de realized with the 
collaboration of the Greek Film-Archive and the Greek Film Center and 
the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki, which has expressed the 
wish to transfer the exhibition and to project the directors films in 
Thessaloniki. Publicity Sponsors are the newspaper Ta Nea and Ert.


The Symposium will include a photographic exhibition of the directors 
life, as well as an exhibition of his designs, posters and costumes of 
his films and his books. Also a movie theatre in Athens will project his 
movies.


Prominent personalities of the Greek and the International cinema have 
been invited to participate in this significant event, as well as famous 
theoretical analysts of the work of the great creator.


The Symposium will attend journalists, academicians, students, 
intellectuals and opinion leaders, as well as Russian collaborators of 
the director, actors and screenwriters of his movies.


Special publicity will be given to TV, radio, and press.