An employee of VGIK spoke about the importance of French cinema for the Russian audience

“Our first actual films were mainly from France.

And the French have actively worked in our market as entrepreneurs, in particular, first of all, in documentary newsreels.

All along, French cinema has influenced us.

Many of (films. -

) were dynamic, recognizable, very cool actors - all together this made a great impression on us, like the 1981 film The Professional, which was a very important milestone for us, namely commercial cinema, and played there Jean-Paul Belmondo ", - noted Kapterev.

The expert also added that the film "In the Last Breath" is now in the Russian box office.

“This film went down in history as one of the revolutionaries, probably, and his merit in this film is very large.

This is not only the merit of the director Godard, but, of course, Jean-Paul Belmondo, ”concluded Kapterev.

The death of the French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo became known on September 6.