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A week of Italian cinema will provide a smooth transfer for fans of Molodist international film festival, which closed on Halloween.

Five works from the shoe-shaped peninsula will be shown in Italian with Ukrainian subtitles. Super-famous Italian actor and director Michele Placido will open the event. He’s best known for his part as the chief police officer Corrado Cattani in the TV series Mafia.

Placido will present his new autobiographical work “The Big Dream.” The film tries to trace origins of the freedom that youth takes for granted today. After Kyiv, the new Italian movies will travel to Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lviv.

Nov. 5-10, Kyiv cinema, 19 Velyka Vasylkivska St., 234-7381, www.kievkino.com.ua.