Star of Elena up for top award

A Russian actress will compete for Europe’s equivalent of the Oscars, the European Film Awards. Among the contenders for the coveted honors are such world-known luminaries as Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tilda Swinton. ­Theater actress Nadezhda Markina has been lauded for her stunning part in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest drama Elena, which picked up a […]