BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- With eight contemporary films covering comedy, war and thrillers, a six-day Russian film festival started here Friday evening as a key activity for the "Year of Russian language" in China.

    The opening film, Aleksandr Strizhenov's "From 180 and Higher" (2006), which tells a comedy of a short man's dating experiences with women taller than 180mm.

    "Russian cinema always excels at reflecting humanity, wars and history with poetic images," said Fu Hongxing, curator of the China Film Archive, the festival's organizer. "But in recent years, Russian filmmakers have also made breakthroughs in making films with more entertaining factors."

    War thriller "Turkish Gambit," directed by Dzhanik Faiziyev and Filipp Yankovsky's crime story "The State Counsellor" (2005), among the eight movies, are both based on Russia...

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