The Moscow Film Festival turns 90! We remember the brightest moments (PHOTOS)
The Moscow International Film Festival is the second oldest in the world after the Venice Film Festival.
The first festival was held in 1935 and it has been held regularly since 1959. During this time, the most famous actors and directors in world cinema have frequented Moscow – we recall some of those visits in our new gallery.
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida and the first man in space Yuri Gagarin at the II Moscow International Film Festival, 1961.
Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor was a guest at the II Moscow International Film Festival, 1961.
Italian actress Giulietta Masina, Italian director Federico Fellini and the world's first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, 1963.
Italian actress Sophia Loren and People's Artist of the USSR Sergo Zakariadze, 1965.
Hollywood actor Robert De Niro and German actress Hanna Schigulla giving an interview at the Moscow International Film Festival, 1987.
Actors Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle with Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov, who heads the festival, 2001.
Director Quentin Tarantino and Nikita Mikhalkov, 2004.
American actress Meryl Streep at the closing ceremony of the film festival, 2004.
Film director Nikita Mikhalkov and actor Will Smith at the opening ceremony of the Moscow International Film Festival, 2008.
Nikita Mikhalkov and actor Adrien Brody at the opening ceremony of the Moscow International Film Festival, 2009.
Actor John Malkovich at the premiere of the movie ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ at the Moscow International Film Festival, 2011.
Nikita Mikhalkov and Brad Pitt at the Moscow premiere of the movie ‘World War Z’, 2013.
Jury of the 37th MIFF: director Alexei Fedorchenko, producer Fernando Sokolovich, actress Jacqueline Bisset, chairman of the jury of the main competition, French director Jean-Jacques Annaud and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer, 2015.
