Netflix Adapts Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ As First Russian Original Drama; Svetlana Khodchenkova To Star

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NBC News’ Keir Simmons interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, with a preview airing on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on Friday evening and the interview on Monday.

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Christopher Vourlias As the ambassador for this year’s Key Buyers Event, the annual showcase for Russian content and talent organized by state film promotion body Roskino, leading man Yuri Kolokolnikov, who was born in Moscow but raised in Canada, sees himself as a fitting spokesperson for an event designed to build bridges.“Since early childhood, my life was between East and West. I witnessed how the world has become unified, in spite of all the existing disagreements,” he told Variety.

Christopher Vourlias The past few years have seen a host of Russian streaming services enter the market, and as in other countries around the globe, the pandemic was a boon to the industry, which grew by 66% in 2020 to reach a value of 27.8 billion rubles ($384 million), according to TMT Consulting.No company has benefited as much as fast-growing VOD platform START, which experienced the highest growth in the industry, with a 172% increase in streaming revenue last year.Founded in 2017 by the

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorUnspooling from June 8-15, the Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition will feature a slew of drama projects worth looking out for, from psychological thrillers to biopics and new takes on modern relationships.“Insomnia” (1-2-3 Production) 2022Producers: Valeriy Fedorovich, Evgeniy NikishovSynopsis: Yuri is a successful psychiatrist and hypnotist, a committed non-believer, capable of rationalizing anything except for his own nightmares: featuring his late

Marta Balaga The popularity of subscription video-on-demand services in Russia has been growing rapidly and, as noted by Olga Filipuk, chief content officer of Yandex Mediaservices, the production of original shows has now reached a new level.

Christopher Vourlias Russian state film promotion body Roskino and public broadcaster Channel One are launching sales on a lavish, eight-part series based on the life of poet, singer, composer and cabaret artist Alexander Vertinsky, a cultural icon whose life played out against the backdrop of history-altering events in the first half of the 20th century.The series, which is being presented during Roskino’s Key Buyers Event, is available in two versions.

Netflix has picked up its first ever Russian drama series with Anna K.

Naman Ramachandran “Anna K” (working title), a contemporary retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel “Anna Karenina,” will be Netflix’s first Russian original drama series.The series is set in modern day Russia, where socialite Anna Karenina, the wife of the soon-to-become governor of St. Petersburg, embarks on a love affair with Vronsky, the heir of an aluminium empire.