Over 2,000 viewers at the European Movie Festival in Baku

The Delegation of the European Union successfully launched the European Movie Festival on 10th of December. The Festival which will run until 16 December has already attracted over 2,000 viewers. The Festival days will continue with 6 best European movies that were recognised by numerous national and international awards.

On 14 December the Festival day will be opened by an Oscar winning Austrian movie "The Counterfeiters", which is a true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936.

On 14 December the 2nd movie to be presented is a Hungarian movie "Bridgeman" about the life of a Hungarian aristocrat of the 19th century, who financed the building of the first permanent bridge over the Danube in Budapest in 1839.

On 15 December the Polish movie to be screened is "Time to die". Aniela, is as much a sprightly, unyielding relic of the past as the big dacha-style house surrounded by tall trees in which she lives alone with her impetuous dog... The festival day will continue with Dutch movie "Duska" by a legendary director Jos Stelling. It is a film about an aging screenwriter who lives a bachelor's life spending most of his time in cinema hoping to attract attention of the beautiful ticket attendant and when finally he manages that, the arrival of Duska spoils everything. 

On the last day 16 December the film lovers will enjoy the UK movie "Age of Stupid". This ambitious documentary drama from an Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek features Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?...

On 16 December the Festival will be closed by the German movie, winner of many German and international awards "Four minutes". Schubert, Mozart, Chopin and a bunch of killers. That's a life for 80-year-old piano teacher at the women's prison….. With her help an inmate Jenny wins a prestigious piano contest. But the contest is not a challenge to those who want their lives to stand still.

Film sessions start at 18.00 and 20.00. Entrance is free for everybody. The Festival takes place in Rotunda Room, Landmark, 90A Nizami Street.

The festival is organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Embassies of the European Union (EU) member-states represented in the Republic of Azerbaijan.


/Today.Az/