The premiere of Tigran Keosayan's film "Seven Days of Pyotr Semenych" took place in Moscow

Tigran Keosayan's film "The Seven Days of Pyotr Semenych" was presented at the October Cinema in Moscow, the Izvestia correspondent reported on Wednesday, April 23.

The screening took place as part of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF). Before the premiere, Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya international media group and RT, Keosayan's wife, addressed the audience. She thanked the audience for taking the time to watch the film and expressed the hope that this work would not be the last.

"Thank you for taking the time to spend this wonderful evening with us in such good weather and watch Tigran's film, which I cannot call the last, but as is customary in these difficult war times, I will say with hope in my heart that this is an extreme film," she said.

The film's script is based on a story by Simonyan from the collection "The Whirlpool". According to her, this story especially sunk into Keosayan's soul, and he wanted to bring it to the screen in order to convey to the audience the atmosphere of their native Adler, which is close to them both.

In early January, it became known about Keosayan's serious health problems — he suffered clinical death and has been in a coma ever since. Simonyan shared with the audience that before the premiere of the film, she visited her husband in the hospital and told him about the screening.

"I do not know if it was right to make the premiere without him. Of course, it's very bad that he can't be here, but I know my husband and I know that it would be even worse if no one saw it, and his work was in vain," she said.

On April 21, Hydrogen Film Companies and Art Pictures Studio, the National Media Group, the distributor NMG Kinoprokat and Art Pictures Distribution, with the support of the Cinema Foundation, presented the first trailer for the fairy tale "Pinocchio". The project is based on Alexey Tolstoy's classic book The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio, and its launch was accompanied by a large-scale promotional campaign on the media facades of Russia's largest cities.