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Russia’s capital city recently became a film set for the Indian action movie “The Greatest of All Time” by director Venkat Prabhu. The movie was shot on Red Square, in Lyalin and Maly Kazenny Lanes and on other Moscow streets. Here are some tips on some other places to visit in Moscow to feel like you are “in a movie”. A guided tour of the legendary Mosfilm film studio can be no less impressive than Moscow’s classical museums and exhibitions. The grounds of the enormous film company are a genuine paradise for movie buffs and especially for connоisseurs of Soviet cinema, as almost all the best films from the Soviet period were made here. Mosfilm’s museum contains some genuine rarities, including a collection of retro cars, vintage carriages, movie props, costumes and bits of scenery, stands with rare camera equipment and even the original Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture by Vera Mukhina – the studio’s familiar emblem. Open-air pavilions recreate for cinema the streets of old Saint Petersburg and pre-revolutionary Moscow, the Russian provinces and European cities. A popular new location for cinema tourism recently appeared in Moscow – the enormous Moskino cinema park. The city authorities have given permission to develop 320 hectares of former wasteland and rubbish dumps to create this unique space for film production, featuring pavilions and locations for outdoor shoots. The complex has been designed so that Russian and foreign film directors can make films on absolutely any topic and find suitable historical film sets. Here, you can already take a walk around the streets of a 1940s town on the outskirts of Moscow, imagine yourself as a peasant in a small Russan village or …

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