Moscow’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts has inaugurated an exhibition “The Lanterns of Tolstoy” – all of them designed by world-famous Italian screenwriter and poet Tonino Guerra, who has arrived in the Russian capital for the occasion

In fact, being married to Russian Lora Yablochkina, Guerra has been a frequent visitor to Moscow for the last 30 years. Last year he travelled to Leo Tolstoy's manor Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula region. At a railway museum close to the writer's home, Guerra saw peculiar antique lamps that gave him inspiration for this project.

The author of dozens of scripts for the films of Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Guerra says he is unhappy with modern European cinema. 

Guerra's works on display

“It seems that everything has grown older.  It's all the same every time, actors are focusing on trifles. I am more interested in Oriental films now, where all the gestures and glances of the actors have some special magic,” says the screenwriter.