Vladlen Troshkin’s film “Konstantin Simonov” – the story of an outstanding poet, writer and war correspondent who was on all fronts and marched across the lands of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany – will open the festival. The film will be presented by the poet’s son and journalist Aleksey Simonov.

The festival will also feature a special program of documentary films entitled “The Great Patriotic War through the Eyes of Journalists-Cameramen” dedicated to those who managed to pass to the next generation video records of the great tragedies of the war.

The film “And the World Saw Stalingrad” shot by director Konstantin Shutov is devoted to cameraman Vladimir Orlyankin, who filmed the legendary events of the Battle of Stalingrad. “Fight for a Shot” by Andrey Kartavtsev concerns Semyon Shkolnikov, who was armed with a movie camera filming in the enemy’s support areas and on the front line during 1943-1945. “The Front Journalism” directed by Dagestan journalist Abdullah Bechedov tells about the destinies of war correspondents during WWII.

In another theme of the festival – “Legend Man” – the premiere of the documentary film “Simply Kalashnikov” will be held. The picture will be presented by the author and film director Andrey Nikishin.

A special place in the program is reserved for feature films about the Second World War shot by young cinematographers.

The festival will run from May 3 until May 7 at the cinema hall of Moscow’s Central House of Journalists.