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Contact: Julia Matyash, dir., Sovtelexport; Maria Dorokhina, head, intl. sales (worldwide, ex. CIS & Baltic states); Elizaveta Shcherbakova, mgr., intl. sales (worldwide, ex. CIS & Baltic states); Nadezhda Kobzeva, mgr., intl. sales (worldwide, ex. CIS & Baltic states). PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS The Terrible (Drama, 8x60 min.) The life of the most controversial and mysterious Russian ruler, Ivan IV. Despite being an incredibly educated and literary gifted person, a reformer and a creator, he was a cruel tyrant. The Optimists: Caribbean Season (Spy/detective drama, 8x52 min.) The Cuban Missile Crisis is in full swing. Spy star Dmitry Nesterov is urgently sent back to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow from his post in New York and ends up in the thick of things. Call Me Mother (Drama, 12x43-47 min.) In the 1930s, young Tatiana follows her husband to Moscow to avoid getting arrested. He betrays her and she finds shelter as a nanny in the house of a famous Soviet engineer. When the government comes after him and his wife, Tanya has to escape with their little sons. Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes (Drama, 8x53-55 min.) Zuleikha, a quiet and obedient Muslim wife, is living with her abusive husband and despotic mother-in-law in a remote Tatar village in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. When her husband is murdered by communist soldiers for hiding grain, she is arrested and sent to Siberia. The Blood Widow (Thriller/historical drama, 16x51-53 min.) Series about the most notorious female serial killer in Russian history, who tortured and murdered over a hundred innocent peasants. Ekaterina. Pretenders (Historical drama, 16x5253 min.) 1774. The rule of Ekaterina is threatened. Numerous pretenders appear with claims to the throne. Her personal life also is troubled.

Homo Sperans (Lifestyle/psychology, 1x73 min.) The heroes of the film are ordinary people who meet their requirements for eternal questions: What is being, what is happiness, what does it mean to love your homeland? Kresty (Current affairs/psychology, 1x90 min.) Kresty is one of the oldest and largest prisons in Russia, located in the center of Saint Petersburg. The Wall (History, 2x45 min.) A film by a Russian journalist Andrey Kondrashov about the destruction of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. Beslan (History, 1x109 min.) On September 1, 2004, terrorists captured a school in Beslan. There were 334 victims, 186 of them children.

Call Me Mother