Aleksandra Pokrovskaya, a famed fencer, defeats everyone in her competitive path in hopes of achieving her lifelong goal, attaining Olympic gold. She finds herself challenged by an ambitious, unknown fencer on a sudden winning streak — Kira Egorova. The two athletes fight for supremacy on and off the arena, finding themselves in a crisis of […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Toronto’s second annual KinoArt Festival, devoted to Russian film, opened on Nov. 4 with Sergey Solovyev’s adaptation of the classic Tolstoy novel, ANNA KARENINA. The book sired one of the most famous lines in literature which opens the film: “Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in […]
