On February 7, the movie club of the Russian House in Brussels hosted a screening of the film “The Same Munchausen”. The event was held as part of a retrospective of Mark Zakharov’s films.

Mark Zakharov (1933-2019) – a legend of the Russian theater and cinema, People’s Artist of the USSR (1991), director and screenwriter. Zakharov worked extensively and successfully in film and television, in particular, filmed a number of plays by Yevgeny Schwartz and Grigory Gorin in the genre of a fantastic parable.

The leading roles in the legendary film were played by the stars of Russian cinema Oleg Yankovsky, Inna Churikova, Elena Koreneva, Alexander Abdulov and others.

The comic fantasy about the life, love and death of the famous Baron Munchausen, who lived in the 18th century and became the hero of many funny books and legends, did not leave the Belgian public indifferent.