Aleksandr Pankratov-Chernyi

A girl, wearing Ukrainian national dress greets Russian actor Pankratov-Chernyi during the ceremony of consecrating to Cossacks on Thursday evening, August 3, 2000 on the island Khotritsa, not far from Zaporizhia. On the same day they amounting to the Russian delegation arrived in Zaporizhia and will then leave for Berdyansk to take part in the International Movie Festival "Brigantina - 2000" (Brigantine-2000). The Festival will open on Friday, August 4 and will last till August 9. Ivan Gavrikyuk, Olga Sumskaya, Ruslana pisanka, Sergey Zhigunov, Eldar Ryazanov, Leonid Kuravlev and many other actors and directors of Ukrainian and Russian movie-industry will take part in the Parade of Stars, which will be carried out. The films shot by Eldar Ryazanov "Starye Klyachi" (Old Jades), Stanislav Govorukhin "Voroshilovskyi Strelok" (Volroshilovskyi Shooter), Alena Demyanenko "Dve Yulii" (Two Yulias) and videos "Banditskyi Peterburg" (Gangster Petersburg), "Kamenskaya", "Den Rozdenia Burzhuya" (Burzhi's birthday) entered the festival contest program . Photo by Egor Sapronov/ UNIAN