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Curtain and its Winter
Festival. It is rare to be
invited by the U.S.S.R. as
the .official ‘‘Honoured
Guest” of the Winter Arts
- Festival. Few western
world celebrities get such an
invitation, This year,
Canada’s Bruno Gerussi,
star of The Beachcombers
and Celebrity Cooks,
received just such an invite
from the large U.S.S.R.
agency InTourist and the
State Committee for TV and
Radio. A few years back, so
did Bob Hope, And Mary
' Tyler Moore. Mr. Gerussi

The annual Russian’
Winter Arts Festival is a
time for fun and games and
letting off steam, Russian
style. It's also a way to
make the long winter
bearable and an answer to
the western world’s
Christmas season. And it is
celebrated in just about
every'city in Russia.at the
same time.

Sunday, March 6, at 8 p.m.
CBC-TV will telecast the
Superspecial — Gerussi in
Moscow, providing
Canadian viewers with a

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Gerussi in Moscow will
take Canadians to some of
the hundreds of festival
activities, as seen through
the eyes of Bruno. And it’s a

city of contrasts. From,

wedding cake buildings that
make up the Kremlin
rimming Red Square, to the
ultra-modern, super-
efficient subway system and
the modern gray blocks that
service 7% million
Mosecovites daily.’ The

national peyche, too, is set
aside for the light-hearted
atmosphere of the festival,
with dancing, singing,

inking in the
streets, Producer Clare

| Walker and the small

Canadian production team

‘EF captured much of that
. gaiety in Moscow and other
cities as time allowed.

Filming days stretched
from 7 in the morning until
beyond 11 at night in an

. effort to present the whole
’ picture.

‘The Canadians were

' allowed to film and visit

paris of the country and
estivities never before
shown in the western world.
Exciting sequences include
highlights of the world-

subdued Russian:

“Gerussi in Moscow"

a visit to the grand Bolshoi
Ballet, Performing Swan
Lake. A. truly stunning
visual encounter is the trip
inside: the Hermitage
Museum, which contains
one thousand rooms of great
master paintings.
Ironically, as Clare Walker
states, “It was a cultural
shock to simply walk into
that museum. The art is
superb, but pales by com-
parisén to the architectural
majesty of the Hermitage
building itself!” ~
Included in Gerussi in
Moscow are many examples
of the varied styles of Soviet
artistry, including the Don
Cossacks, the Armenian’
Folk Dance Ensemble and
even an interview with actor
Misha Kozakov, probably
the most respected actor in
Russia and known as “..,.the
Richard Burton of the Soviet
Union...’’.- He is seen
reminiscing with Gerussi
about -his.visit to Stratford,
Ontario, 20 years ago.
(Gerussi, then starring at
the Stratford Festival, first
met Kozakov at that time.)

national television, his
whirlwind schedule did not
permit him to drop into a -
television studio; instead,
Russian TV sent out a film
crew to do an on-location
interview about Bruno’s
impressions of the country.
This was later aired over
Russian TV.

Lest it be sald that
Russians do not celebrate a
holiday season around New
Year’s, it certainly is
Christmas of a sort at that
time of year. The annual
Russian Winter Arts
Festivaleees people dress in
gay costumes, the ap-
pearance of Father Frost, a
character much like the
western Santa Claus, and all
over the country people
decorate and light up their
“New Year’s Tree”. It boils
down to people havin fun as
people do the world over.
Enjoy CBC-TV’s March 6
Superspecial, ‘‘Gerussi in
Moscow” at 8 p.m.

-The one-hour show was
produced by Clare Walker of
Nielseri-Ferns Productions

Ltd., and directed by-Don

Though Gerussi was
Haldane.

booked to appear on Russian

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