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LONDON. KAZINFORM A roundtable discussion on the history and modern trends in Kazakh cinema launched the Online Kazakhstan Film Week in London marking the 30th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s Independence.
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The Russian-Irish filmmaker whose magical movies shaped Soviet childhoods Making miracles, witches and kings for a Communist society: Alexander Rou, whose father was from Wexford town, became a celebrated filmmaker in the USSR
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In the early 1960s the Rowe family of Wexford placed an advert in a Soviet newspaper seeking to make contact with a cousin, Alexander, whom they believed resided somewhere in Russia. One of the family members who placed the advert, David Rowe, remembered “not really expecting that anyone would notice”. But soon, Alexander Rou, as his Irish surname was styled in Russian, responded. This was how the Rowes of Wexford made contact with their long-lost cousin, by then a celebrated director of Soviet children’s cinema.