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Izvestia culture editor George Melikjanz describes some of the films from the U.S.S.R. that will be playing at the Festival of Festivals this year.
Izvestia culture editor George Melikjanz describes some of the films from the U.S.S.R. that will be playing at the Festival of Festivals this year.

Izvestia culture editor George Melikjanz describes some of the films from the U.S.S.R. that will be playing at the Festival of Festivals this year.

Date9/8/1989
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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      As director of the Festival of Festivals, Wayne Clarkson spends half the year raising money, the other half flying around the world looking at films. (...)
      As director of the Festival of Festivals, Wayne Clarkson spends half the year raising money, the other half flying around the world looking at films. (...)
      Bull, Ron
      9/7/1982
      Fans of French actress Jeanne Moreau were given a treat at the film Festival of Festivals yesterday when she arrived to present her latest movie, Lumi(...)
      Fans of French actress Jeanne Moreau were given a treat at the film Festival of Festivals yesterday when she arrived to present her latest movie, Lumi(...)
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      10/21/1976
      A young violinist with much beauty and strength in his playing, is how Ronald Hambleton describes 15-year-old Victor Schultz, debut solo appearance wi(...)
      A young violinist with much beauty and strength in his playing, is how Ronald Hambleton describes 15-year-old Victor Schultz, debut solo appearance wi(...)
      Griffin, Doug
      7/16/1975
      Unusual pairing: Native Canadian and Japanese dance, theatre, art, films, literature and food will be part of festival events
      Unusual pairing: Native Canadian and Japanese dance, theatre, art, films, literature and food will be part of festival events
      Bock, Tony
      6/30/1991
      Breaking The Silence is the title of the Shaw Festival's season opener, now playing at Niagara-on-the-Lake and featuring actor Ted Dykstra, who scored 13 out of 15 on our quiz
      Breaking The Silence is the title of the Shaw Festival's season opener, now playing at Niagara-on-the-Lake and featuring actor Ted Dykstra, who scored 13 out of 15 on our quiz
      Beaty, Keith
      11/19/1986
      I need all the help I can get., That's what Lily Munro, Ontario's new Liberal minister of citizenship and culture, said when film festival director Wa(...)
      I need all the help I can get., That's what Lily Munro, Ontario's new Liberal minister of citizenship and culture, said when film festival director Wa(...)
      Faught, Ken
      6/26/1985
      GBS approves, Christopher Newton (left), the Shaw Festival's artistic director, gets a nod of approval from old George Bernard Shaw himself (actor Her(...)
      GBS approves, Christopher Newton (left), the Shaw Festival's artistic director, gets a nod of approval from old George Bernard Shaw himself (actor Her(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      2/4/1986
      Shaw festival's new $3 million home was opened at Niagara-on-the-Lake last night and retired lawyer Brian Doherty (left), who founded festival 11 year(...)
      Shaw festival's new $3 million home was opened at Niagara-on-the-Lake last night and retired lawyer Brian Doherty (left), who founded festival 11 year(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      6/12/1973
      Asian treasures: Leonard Schein, director of Toronto's highly successful Festival Of Festivals, has placed a traditional brass Buddha from India and a pair of brass desert teapots from China on the mantel in his living room
      Asian treasures: Leonard Schein, director of Toronto's highly successful Festival Of Festivals, has placed a traditional brass Buddha from India and a pair of brass desert teapots from China on the mantel in his living room
      Eglinton, Rick
      8/12/1986
      Back from England where they performed for three weeks at Chichester, the Stratford Festival company landed at Toronto International Airport yesterday and left for Stratford and six weeks of rehearsal before festival's opening June 15
      Back from England where they performed for three weeks at Chichester, the Stratford Festival company landed at Toronto International Airport yesterday and left for Stratford and six weeks of rehearsal before festival's opening June 15
      Darrell, Dick
      4/28/1964
      Her sight restored, by a cornea transplant operation, 18-year-old Fanny Patina, from Ecuador, smiles happily as she describes the wonderful world she (...)
      Her sight restored, by a cornea transplant operation, 18-year-old Fanny Patina, from Ecuador, smiles happily as she describes the wonderful world she (...)
      Patino, Fanny
      10/18/1967
      Capturing Toronto's romance: Painter Rajka Kupesic, who came to Toronto from Yugoslavia six years ago, describes her adopted city as romantic
      Capturing Toronto's romance: Painter Rajka Kupesic, who came to Toronto from Yugoslavia six years ago, describes her adopted city as romantic
      Kupešić, Rajka
      5/3/1982