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THE NEW YORK TIMES
05.12.2005
FILM MUSEUM CLOSES IN MOSCOW
Sophia KISHKOVSKY
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The Moscow Film Museum has shut the
doors of its longtime home after a protracted real estate struggle that drew
rare street protests from Russian film lovers. The museum, which housed a
collection of memorabilia from Tarkovsky and
Eisenstein, had been in the Kino Center, a huge building
in central Moscow that was
constructed in 1980's for the Soviet Filmmakers' Union, but since 1991
has been gradually taken over by casinos, restaurants and strip clubs, and
also has a commercial movie theater.
The director of the museum, Naum Kleiman,
said
earlier this year that he had been served with eviction papers, and it closed
down on Thursday. "We have to say goodbye to these quarters," he
told the newspaper Izvestia. "It's the past,
which has now ended up in the hands of people who are strangers to
film." The Russian Filmmakers' Union last year sold
its stake in the building to a company said to be linked to Nikita Mikhalkov, the Oscar-winning director and the chairman of
the union, a connection that raised eyebrows in Moscow. Mr. Mikhalkov recently announced that he was taking a break
from his position with the union to complete several film projects. The
museum's collection is being moved to Mosfilm
Studios, and is to have screenings at a government-run cultural facility, but
still hopes for a new permanent home.
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