Message to Man

Release Date: 1989-06-01

Overview: In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Ivars Seleckis, and the ballerina Natalya Makarova, among others. It also shows the “engine room” of the festival: the work of the main office and the PROKKa professional cinematographers’ club, guests being greeted and seen off. A charity evening with Natalya Makarova, a memorial service to commemorate the victims of the war and excerpts of documentary films presented at the festival are also featured.

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Cast

Natalia Makarova

as Herself

Leo Hurwitz

as Himself

Ivars Seleckis

as Himself

Erwin Leiser

as Himself

Orna Ben-Dor Niv

as Herself