Honorary "Berlinale Camera" awarded to Naum Kleiman

BERLIN. Last night, February 12, in one of the halls of the Palace of the Berlinale Film Festival, a ceremony was held to present one of the most honorable awards in the field of the film industry - the Berlinale Cameras. One of the winners of this award was Russian film critic and film expert, founder of the Moscow Museum of Cinema Naum Kleiman. Note that the “Berlinale Camera” is awarded annually as a sign of special respect to outstanding movie figures. Alice Waters and Carlo Petrini also received awards in this area.

Immediately after the award was presented to the festival guests, a documentary film by the German director Tatyana Brandrap “Cinema: Public Affair” was shown, which tells about the life and work of Naum Ikhilevich Kleiman.

At one time, Naum Kleiman graduated from the Cinema Department of VGIK. On his account there are many articles on the history and theory of cinema. Kleiman is a world-renowned expert on the work of Sergei Eisenstein, the founder of the Moscow Museum of Cinema and its direct manager from 1992 to 2014. Often, Kleiman can be seen in the international jury of many film festivals held in Toronto, Berlin, Venice and other cities of the world.

Recall that the 65th Berlin Film Festival this year runs from February 5 to 15. The opening of the festival was marked by the screening of the Spanish filmmaker Isabelle Coishet, entitled “Nobody Needs a Night”. 18 films were included in the main program of the festival, among them the creations of Peter Greenaway, Jafar Panahi, Werner Herceg and others. The Russian film by Alexei German the Younger “Under the Electric Clouds” also takes part in the main competition of the festival.

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