1.  Other Russian directors, like Shaknazarov, are scrambling for co-production deals in other countries.

2.  Schmidt was born in Brooklyn and attended Colgate and Harvard, where he wrote his dissertation for his doctorate in Slavic languages on the influential Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold.

3.  Shooting in remote locations is always tough on filmmakers, but Russian director Sergei Bodrov probably has one of the great filmmaking survival stories of all time.

4.  Sometimes he shows films by Fellini and the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.

5.  Taking a moderate approach tinged with nuanced humor, Russian director Sergei Bodrov investigates the identity of the real prisoners of the mountain in his new film.

6.  The grandmother, for example, is played by Yelena Solovei, who played the lead in several films by the Russian director Nikita Mikhailkov.

7.  While reeling off references to the difficult Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, he betrayed a pronounced appetite for popular culture.

8.  Downey said the company once had Serb directors, but all but one had been replaced with Russian directors before Wareing began serving as consultant.

9.  Erdmann emphasized that Russia will play a central role to drafting the resolution, and said that the Russian political director was absent due to scheduling conflicts.

10.  He also won an honorary award for outstanding contributions to the film industry, as did Loren, Deneuve, Gina Lollogbrigida and top Russian director Andrei Konchakovsky.