Moscow Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 Moscow Film Festival Awards
2009 Moscow Film Festival: June 19-28, 2009
Set in a small town in the early 1950s, Nikolai Dostal’s Pete on the Way to Heaven revolves around a (somewhat mentally impaired) young man who pretends he’s the local traffic inspector much to the amusement of his fellow denizens. Things become serious when an inmate escapes from the local reformatory.
Golden Saint George for best film: Pete on the Way to Heaven / Petya po doroge v tsarstvie nebesnoe directed by Nikolai Dostal (Russia)
Special jury award: Alexander Proshkin for Miracle / Chudo
Best direction: Mariana Chenillo (Five Days Without Nora, Mexico)
Best actor: Vladimir Ilyin (Ward # 6, directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, Russia)
Best actress: Elena Kostyuk [...]