Legends of Soviet Cinema

About exhibition

"Legends of Soviet Cinema" is a new, regularly updated project of the Victory Museum dedicated to the history of domestic cinema. In the lobby of the Poklonka cinema, posters and placards of Soviet films from the collections of the Russian State Film Fund (Gosfilmofond of Russia), the State Central Museum of Cinema and the Soyuzmultfilm studio will be exhibited. Display cases will feature items devoted to the history of film. At the exhibition visitors will be able to see the equipment used to shoot and edit old film reels, as well as the awards presented to Soviet wartime films at international festivals. As part of the exhibition, the cinema will organize a free screening once a month of one of the films whose posters and placards are included in the exhibition. Each screening will be dedicated to a significant date or holiday. Visitors will also be able to read newspaper articles by outstanding Soviet directors about the films being shown. "The masterpieces of Soviet cinema will remind visitors to the exhibition and the cinema of our people's wartime victories, the greatest achievements of peacetime, of childhood and youth. Guests of the exhibition will enjoy the performances of outstanding Soviet actors, hear songs beloved since childhood and popular catchphrases, recall the posters that invited them to visit cinemas, or tell their children and grandchildren about those times," the Victory Museum noted. The project will launch on Defender of the Fatherland Day with a screening of the feature film "Two Soldiers," directed by Leonid Lukov during the Great Patriotic War in 1943. Admission to the exhibition will be free for all.