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Un soir, suspendus au 52ème étage de la Tour Montparnasse, Eric et Ramzy, deux laveurs de carreaux, ont pris du retard dans leur travail.Pendant ce temps, la jolie Stéphanie attend son oncle, le puissant PDG du Groupe Lanceval, et ses fils, les actionnaires principaux, pour un conseil d'administration nocturne qui va se révéler bien mouvementé. En effet, un commando surentraîné investit l'immeuble, contrôle tous les accès et prend la famille Lanceval en otage. Stéphanie est en fait l'organisatrice du coup monté et convoite la fortune de son oncle qui la méprise depuis toujours. Stéphanie et ses hommes n'attendent plus que la main de la chère mère, dont les empreintes vont permettre d'actionner le mécanisme d'ouverture du coffre.Cependant, nos deux compères sont restés au sommet de la Tour et risquent bien de faire capoter le plan machiavélique de la belle.

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• Vince s. raté je l'ai vu et j'ai détesté, alors que j'ai adoré le 1
• Vince s. ba c'est un film pose cerveau, tu le regarde pas pour te posé des question philosophique mais pour te marré, chose qui est visiblement compliqué pour beaucoup de personnes
• Vince s. le culte c'est quand ta vu un film dans son temps forts, donc forcément quand ont regarde un film 20 ans après sa sortis c'est pas du tous la même saveurs
• No Identity Je suis pas particulièrement fan du duo :mais je me suis laissé tenter quand même. Une bonne surprise peut vite arriver..Et bien ce film, peu importe le degré, n'est pas spécialement drôle/amusant. Culte pour certains visiblement, les goûts et les couleurs...2/5
• palatine chénat faut prendre au second degré
• palatine chénat c de l'humour pipi caca quoi
• AxelLefebvre69 Lourd et forcé
• Ducerceau Je rêve ou c'est toi ?
• JAIMEPASLESNANARS C´est deconseille par la CNAM de paris ....a tes risques et perils !!!!
• HodOor Est ce qu'il faut le regarder si on a plus de 7 ans (ce n'est pas ironique) ?
• THE CRITIkATOR #LaTourMontparnasseInfernale.Chaque comiques ayant tourné pour le cinéma à son film culte. #LesTroisFrères pour les Inconnus, #LaCitéDeLaPeur pour les Nuls (bientôt en Blu-ray). Pour Eric et Ramzy c'est CE film, en même temps vu la qualité des autres c'était pas très difficile comme choix.En dehors d'être une bonne parodie d'un film d'action avec Bruce Willis, je te laisse deviner lequel, c'est aussi grâce à ce film que j'ai pu découvrir l'excellente Marina Foïs dans le rôle de la nièce blasé par la prise d'otages.3/5 👍.
• Benoit R est ce que tu peut me dire quel hommage il rend a indiana jones je voit pas et dumb et dumber ou ace ventura je voit pas
• Benoit R qui peut me dire la reference a indiana jones et a dumb et dumber la je voit pas
• Cowboys from Hell C'est vraiment très relou comme film et très chiant. Seule la scène avec Omar Sy est intéressante mais le reste ne vaut pas un clou. 0.5/5.
• gaut zila Et ouais, fallait pas m'chercher
• gaut zila Ah ouais ? Bah vaut mieux être un tout p'tit breton qu'un grand tu l'auras
• angelabassompierre Des choses drôles, après c'est une comédie pour enfants..... depuis Marina m'a plu dans j'me sens pas belle', boule et bill et maman boule, elle est super cool, dans papa ou maman', elle est à croquer avec Laurent laffitte quand rien ne finit et irréprochable, c'est la perle.le duo est amusant, d'autres lieux méritent qu'on fasse les carreaux.
• Helmoumutt J'ai eu du mal la première fois. Une fois qu'on a intégré la mécanique de cet humour, ça va ça passe. Ça devient même prenant, dans CE film du duo uniquement, en ce qui me concerne. 3/5
• dino Velvet. même ça c'est mieux que les bouses des ch'tis ou autres mer........made in france
• cossaq l'humour en france a eu du mal avec le post an 2000 je crois :p

La Tour Montparnasse infernale

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A pair of dimwitted window washers unexpectedly interfere with a hostage-burglary in Paris' tallest skyscraper.

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Pierre semmler, dominique andre, etienne faudet, christian fechner, sebastien fechner, dominique gallieni, xavier matthieu, julie mauduech, frederic moreau, herve truffaut, jean-claude vannier, miscellaneous notes.

Released in France March 28, 2001

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LA TOUR MONTPARNASSE INFERNALE

by  Charles Nemes

One summer evening, window cleaners Eric and Ramzy are suspended outside the 52nd floor of the Tour Montparnasse when a gang of terrorists invade the skyscraper and take hostages. The lads have only one option: go into action and save the day.

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2001 Directed by Charles Nemes

Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Marie-Joelle (who in reality hates his guts), Ramzy stays at work late while Eric hangs around with him. As a result, the pair witness a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie- Joelle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Eric and Ramzy swing into action.

Eric Judor Ramzy Bedia Marina Foïs Serge Riaboukine Michel Puterflam Omar Sy Jean-Claude Dauphin JoeyStarr Fred Testot Pierre-François Martin-Laval Edgar Givry Pierre Semmler Bô Gaultier de Kermoal Georges Trillat Laurence Pollet-Villard

Director Director

Charles Nemes

Producer Producer

Christian Fechner

Writers Writers

Eric Judor Ramzy Bedia Kader Aoun

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Dominique Galliéni

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

Hervé Truffaut

Camera Operator Camera Operator

Étienne Fauduet

Art Direction Art Direction

Dominique André

Stunts Stunts

Vincent Haquin

Composer Composer

Jean-Claude Vannier

Sound Sound

Amaury de Nexon William Flageollet Jean-Louis Richet Arthur Le Roux Denis Jaillet-Marsigny

Costume Design Costume Design

Julie Mauduech

Makeup Makeup

Alexis Kinebanyan Françoise Quilichini Frédéric Lainé

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Manu Malville

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rigolo et absurde quand on enlève les trucs racistes et homophobes

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C’est pas une compétition mais moi une fois je me suis couché à 1h15 et j’étais même pas fatigué je jour d’après. Après c’était un vendredi soir donc je me suis réveillé un peu plus tard le jour d’après (vers 10h00) étant donné que c’était un samedi. Finalement j’ai quand même eu mes 8 heures de sommeil, presque 9 donc c’est plutôt normal que je n’était pas fatigué. Une autre fois aussi je me suis couché vers minuit mais cette fois-ci je te raconte pas comment j’étais fatigué, bonjour le décalage horaire.

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An amazing, deeply connected to trans-ratial communities. I really liked the part when Eric, one of the main character talk to the asian boy in his language to explain him what's going on, and also to tell him that it's not racist. Trully a beautiful scene. Thank you for this masterpiece, and I hope to see this duo in another serie in a hospital (I'm talking qbout Eric and Ramzi). It would also be nice to see them with Jamel Debouze, a great actor from this period. Again, Thank you.

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La Tour Montparnasse Infernale is a French comedy film about two window washers by trade who live in Paris and end up finding trouble in an unlikely place. The characters Eric and Ramzy stay late at work one day on account of one of them believing that he has a date with an attractive woman named Marie-Joelle. The three of them witness an act by a gang of terrorists who then take them hostage along with everyone else in the building. Eric and Ramzy get to work by finding humorous ways to help themselves and everyone else get out of this pickle throughout this wacky story.

• Genres Comedy
• Cast Eric Judor Ramzy Bedia Marina Foïs
• Director La Tour Montparnasse Infernale is a 2000 French comedy film directed by Charles Nemes and written by Kader Aoun Ramzy Bedia Eric Judor and Xavier Matthieu. When it came out in cinemas in Canada it was translated into Don't Die Too Hard in referen
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La Tour Montparnasse infernale (sometimes translated as Don't Die Too Hard , literally The Infernal Montparnasse Tower ) is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Charles Nemes and starring Éric Judor, Ramzy Bedia and Marina Foïs.

Éric and Ramzy are window washers who work at the Tour Montparnasse in Paris . Eric is in love with Stéphanie, an executive who he has never talked to, but who he sees every day because she works in the skyscrapper. Shortly after the close of business, a group of gangsters enters the building and takes hostage several executives, including Stéphanie. Éric and Ramzy, who have stayed late in the skyscrapper, will try to free her.

A prequel , La Tour de contrôle infernale , was released in 2016 .

La Tour Montparnasse infernale (2001) provides examples of:

• Air-Vent Passageway : Éric and Ramzy use an air-vent passageway when they are chased by Ming.
• Are You Sure You Can Drive This Thing? : Éric and Ramzy try to fly a helicopter. It ends in a crash landing.
• Asshole Victim : The CEO is a horrible person (he slapped his niece in the face because he thought that the colour of the paper she used for a document was ugly; he does not care if his niece is shot down by gangsters...), so the audience does not care if he is taken hostage.
• Bad Boss : "Machin" abuses his minions: he hits one of them in the face with a gun because he shot in a window. He also shoots Chang down .
• Borrowed Biometric Bypass : A gangster cut the hand of the CEO's wife, because her hand is necessary to open the second door of the safe. Then the CEO is forced to look into a retinal scanner to open a third door.
• Brandishment Bluff : When Ming fights Ramzy, Éric shows up and pretends that he has a gun under his coat of mail. Obviously, it is just a Finger Gun .
• Bruce Lee Clone : Ming, a martial art fighter with a bowl-cut, a yellow jumpsuits and a nunchaku. (His fight scene with Ramzy is a parody of a scene from Game of Death .)
• Bullet Time : Parodied when Éric manage to dodge the bullets shot at him.
• The Cameo : The famous rapper JoeyStarr (of Suprême NTM fame) appears briefly as a policeman.
• Casting Gag : JoeyStarr playing the role of a policeman is quite funny given the fact that he has had many problems with the police (including being sentenced for insulting the police during his concerts).
• Closet Gay : At one point, when he thinks they're going to be blown up by a bomb, Ramzy admits to Éric that he's attracted to the (fictional) bodybuilder Peter MacCalloway . Éric spends the rest of the movie mocking him for this, while Ramzy tries in vain to downplay the statement.
• Coming in Hot : In the end, the helicopter has to crash land into the front of Montparnasse train station.
• Damsel in Distress : Stéphanie is taken hostage by a group of gangsters. Éric and Ramzy decide to help her. Subverted because she is actually the brains of the operation.
• Did Not Get the Girl : Éric does not get together with Stéphanie in the end.
• "Die Hard" on an X : A skyscrapper is taken over by gangsters and Éric and Ramzy accidentally use guerrilla tactics to stop them.
• Disney Death : Machin shoots Stéphanie at point-blank range. She collapses and there is a big bloodstain on her belly. It turns out that this scene was staged by Stéphanie herself.
• Disney Villain Death : Machin dies when he falls from the helicopter.
• The Ditz : Éric and Ramzy. Ramzy is slightly more clever than Eric, but he is still a complete doofus.
• Dressing as the Enemy : Éric and Ramzy wear the uniform of the helicopter pilots and their face-concealing helmets to pose as them.
• Elevator Failure : Chang is in the elevator. Suddenly it stops because a bomb explodes. Chang has to get out through the ceiling of the cabin.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil : The group of gangsters is lead by a white Frenchman (Michel Vignault or "Machin"). It includes, besides several white Frenchmen, two Asians (Ming and Chang), a German (Hans), and an African American (Chris).
• Extremely Short Timespan : The story takes place between the end of the afternoon and the next morning.
• The Fool : Éric and Ramzi are two stupid window washers. They do not understand what really happens. They do not realize that Stéphanie is the Big Bad . Highly-trained gangsters are after them to kill them, but they manage to survive and to ruin the gangsters' plan by sheer luck.
• Hellish Copter : The helicopter used by the gangsters to escape ends up in the front of Montparnasse train station.
• Hoist by His Own Petard : Chris, a gangster, is killed by a bullet that he shoots at Éric, because the bullet ricochets off Éric's armor.
• Hostage Situation : The gangsters take hostage the members of the board of a company, who are the CEO's sons. This is to force the CEO to disclose the code that opens the first door of the safe. This is also to prevent to police from storming the building.
• Love-Interest Traitor : It is revealed early that Stéphanie, Éric's love interest, is the mastermind of the taking of hostages, but the protagonists take a very long time to realize it.
• Malaproper : Éric and Ramzy get many words wrong. For example, Éric says "pour ta gouvernante" ("for your housekeeper") instead of "pour ta gouverne" ("for your information") and "Hasta la vista, bye bye" instead of "Hasta la vista, baby".
• Manchild : Éric and Ramzy act like young children. The police officer who intercepts their call on the radio comes to the conclusion that they are children playing with a radio.
• Mean Boss : The CEO slapped Stéphanie in the face because he thought that the colour of the paper she used for a document was ugly. He is also rude with the security guard at the entrance of the building.
• Mistaken for Badass : "Machin" thinks that Éric and Ramzy are "professionals", whereas they are just very lucky idiots.
• Muscle Angst : Ramzy's arms are skinny and everybody notices it. Yet, he follows a special programme of body-building and should become very muscular.
• No Name Given : Éric and Ramzy's characters are never named. When he talks to the police, Ramzy pretends that Éric is Michel, a philosopher. When Éric and Ramzy meet Stéphanie, Ramzy introduces himself as Peter Mac Calloway and Éric as François, then as Francis (Éric adds "Francis Huster", which is the name of a French actor). In both cases, it seems to be made up identities.
• The film as a whole (including the poster) is a parody of Die Hard .
• The bullet dodge scene is a parody of The Matrix .
• The fight between Ming and Ramzy is a parody of the fight between Billy Lo ( Bruce Lee ) and Hakim ( Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ) in Game of Death (the costumes, including the yellow tracksuit, are the same).
• In the end, Stéphanie tells Éric and Ramzy that she has booby-trapped their shoes. She pretends that their shoes will explode if they run slower than 30 km/h. This is a reference to Speed .
• Pinball Projectile : A bullet shot by a gangster, Chris, at Éric ricochets off Éric's armor and kills the gangster.
• Reading Lips : Éric thinks that he can read lips. Actually, he gets some words right, but he always misunderstands the full meaning of the sentence.
• The title is a reference to The Towering Inferno (in French La Tour infernale ).
• Éric tells Ramzy "Hasta la vista, bye bye", a malapropism for "Hasta la vista, baby", a catchphrase from Terminator 2: Judgment Day .
• Stéphanie ironically tells Machin that he is as perceptive as Shaggy from Scooby-Doo .
• Ramzy calls Ming "San Ku Kaï", which is the French title of Message from Space: Galactic Wars , a spin-off series of the Japanese film Message from Space .
• Spanner in the Works : Eric and Ramzy, two very stupid window washers, ruin the elaborate plan of Stéphanie to steal the money of her uncle.
• Unwanted Rescue : Éric and Ramzy want to free Stéphanie, whereas she does not need rescue, since she is the mastermind of the taking of hostages.
• Uptown Girl : Éric, a poor window washer, falls in love with Stéphanie, a rich executive.
• You Have Failed Me : "Machin" shoots Chang down when he finds him unconscious, because he has lost the hand of the CEO's wife.

La Tour de contrôle infernale (2016) provides examples of:

• Bad Boss : Janouniou shoots down his mooks on any pretext, for example because they correct his language mistakes.
• Banana Peel : Exaggerated . According to Éric and Ramzy, bananas caused a truck to crash.
• Bloody Hilarious : Bachir Bouzouk's very bloody wounds are played for laughs.
• Empty Quiver : The "Moustachious" steal communications satellites and a nuclear weapon from a plane. They plan to explode the nuclear device above Paris.
• Generation Xerox : Like their sons, Ernest Krakenkrick and Bachir Bouzouk are the Spanner in the Works in a "Die Hard" on an X scenario.
• High-Pressure Blood : Happens to Bachir Bouzouk when his hands and his feet are wounded. He loses liters of blood.
• Identical Grandson : Éric and Ramzy play the roles of the fathers of their characters in the first film. Marina Foïs plays the mother of Stéphanie, her character in the first film.
• Malevolent Masked Men : The "Moustachious" wear masks.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome : During a job interview, Éric and Ramzy tell the climax of the story, which is not showed on screen: Zavier dropped his bananas; the truck drove on it and skidded. This prevented the explosion.
• Parody : The film as a whole is a parody of Die Hard 2 .
• Pocket Protector : Parodied . Krakenkrick, Bouzouk, Jean-Peter McCallaway , "Le Méchant", and Zavier are successively revealed to have survived a close-range shot, because they were protected by objects hidden under their clothes, like dog tags, a weight plate, and bananas.
• Prequel : The story is set in 1981, 20 years before the events of the first film.
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Two brave but brainless window cleaners try to escape the Montparnasse tower in Paris during a hostage situation. Two brave but brainless window cleaners try to escape the Montparnasse tower in Paris during a hostage situation. Two brave but brainless window cleaners try to escape the Montparnasse tower in Paris during a hostage situation.

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“We’re off the leash,” says Brad Taylor, a 15-year tour guide veteran with Warner Bros., noting that the TCM excursion will include time for guides to chat with visitors about their favorite films.

“We get to talk to the guests and really hang out with people who have the same passion that we do,” Taylor says. “I find that ‘classics’ guests are less about behind-the-scenes and more, ‘I can’t believe this is where we are.’ It’s just the look on their faces when they realize ‘Casablanca’ filmed here, or James Dean stood right here.”

The launch of the TCM tour arrives during the network’s 30th anniversary and close to 12 months after classic film fans were given a scare. In June, Warner Bros. announced that layoffs would hit TCM, including some of the network’s top executives, prompting concern from prestige directors such as Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson and Martin Scorsese. After garnering national attention, key cuts were reversed and Warner Bros. sought to assure fans that TCM would continue to be handled with care.

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TCM network hosts — Eddie Muller, Jacqueline Stewart, Ben Mankiewicz, Alicia Malone and Dave Karger — recorded new video segments for the outing. The tour will take guests into the lot’s Property House, an area not visited by the standard tour. Here, visitors can get glimpses of materials for a full set, including items for a complete Oval Office setting, but expect guides to highlight vintage items, such as a throne from the Errol Flynn pirate film “Captain Blood.”

Danny Kahn, vice president-general manager of the studio tour, says there have been numerous requests over the years from guests to delve a little deeper into the studio’s animation history. That’s why the TCM tour will for the first time take visitors to an area of the lot once known as “Termite Terrace,” which from 1955 to 1964, says Taylor, housed the animation department, a building with a sloped roof designed to capture sunlight. Animation legend Chuck Jones, says Kahn, had an office in the Termite Terrace area in the 1990s despite Warner’s moving animation production elsewhere.

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Another unique tour locale is the exterior of the Dean apartment. When Dean resided there during filming of “East of Eden,” it was actually across the street from the lot, the apartment nesting above a pharmacy. But gradual studio expansion has led to the area now being on Warner Bros. property.

“That was an actual drugstore with apartments, and the studio rented it for him,” Kahn says. “I think it was to keep an eye on him and keep him on a short leash.”

The tour will also give tram riders a look at executive life at the studio, allowing them to briefly walk around a rose garden. The manicured spaces once held a tennis court as well as offices and personal screening rooms for the likes of studio mogul Jack Warner, with many of the structures dating to the 1920s. “It’s a really historic area of the lot that hasn’t really changed a lot in all these years,” says Kahn, noting the area is still in use by studio principals. “Jack Warner, when he ran the studio, privatized the first floor. That was a massage parlor that he had beneath his office.”

TCM Classic Films Tour

Where: The Warner Bros. Studio, 3400 Warner Blvd., Burbank 91505

When: Most days, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Cost: $95 for adults; $82 for children. A SoCal resident discount is available for $75

Info: (818) 977-8687 or wbstudiotour.com

Staples of the tour, such as a journey around the backlot city streets, a visit to the “Friends” set and cafe and recent additions highlighting the studio’s modern franchise films are included in the TCM trek, as is a pre-tour reception with beverages and pastries. All told, expect the tour to last about 3½ hours. A tour spokesperson says the first TCM-branded outing is scheduled for Wednesday, with trams expected to depart daily after that date. Adult tickets are $95, but there is a Southern California resident discount available for $75.

“It feels so good to have TCM here,” Kahn says. “People understand that the TCM brand is synonymous with classic film.”

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Krasnodar, Russia

Tours, Attractions and Things To Do in Krasnodar

Here we are in the South of Russia. Welcome to Krasnodar, a major economic and cultural center of North Caucasus, also called “the capital of Kuban”. Krasnodar, perhaps, is one of the most interesting resort towns of the Russian Federation. It is a relatively young city founded by the Cossacks in в 1793 on the lands granted by Ekaterina II (hence its former name was Ekaterinodar). Later, when the Soviet system rose to power, the city was re-named to Krasnodar in 1920, and it preserved this name up to date.

Krasnodar is a center of the Russia’s southern touristic zone, located of the right bank of the Kuban River, 120-150 km from two warm seas – the Black and the Azov. It is an interesting fact that the city is located in the golden section of the Earth, almost in between the equator and the North Pole, right on the 45th parallel, also called “the Golden Line” or “the Life Line”. There exists an opinion that the living conditions in these latitudes are most favorable for human.

In spite of the city’s “youth” Krasnodar has many historical landmarks, while its architectural look is various and represented by different styles from Baroque and Classicism to late Modern. In Krasnodar, there is one of the largest Russian churches – Saint Catherine’s Cathedral, built as early as in 1914 and survived by a miracle under the Soviet power. It is also worth while visiting the Krasnodar main Orthodox Church – Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Interesting and dramatic, was the fate of this, one of the Russia’s most beautiful churches, an example of Russian and Byzantine templar style. Alexander Nevsky Military Cathedral was erected in April 1853, but later on, in year 1932 it was blown up by the Communists. And it was not until May 2006 when the inauguration ceremony of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built anew took place.

Nowadays the Krasnodar architectural variety combines the harmony of old and modern structures. Now, next to the churches there are also modern high-rise buildings (the Marriott Hotel”), shopping and entertainment centers (“Red Square”), modern concert halls (Palace of Arts “Premiere”), restaurants, and night clubs. The city also strikes with its numerous museums, theaters, art galleries. Particularly, if you find yourself in Krasnodar, we recommend you to visit the Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F. A. Kovalenko to enjoy a rare collection of Russian avant-garde and Dutch art of XVI century, and also attend concerts of SSAI “Kuban Cossack chorus” to listen to Kuban Cossack, Russian and Ukrainian folk-songs.

Two Krasnodar unusual landmarks enjoy wide popularity among tourists and local community: the Monument to a purse and the Monument to the doggies in love. Do you want to turn round? Then you are to the purse. It is enough to rub your purse over it, and you will have more money. But if you are unlucky in love, then the loving couple of dogs will help you, you should stroke their small paws and love will certainly come to you.

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The Krasnodar Region has been rightfully recognized as one of the largest cultural centres of Russia. The priceless historical and cultural heritage became a foundation for the development of a bright and indigenous region. Museums of the territory feature unique collections of exhibit items from the historical treasury that took part in Russian and international exhibition projects. Annually state and municipal museums of the territory are visited by about 2 million people.

Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve named after E.D. Felitsyn

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Krasnodar, Gimnazicheskaya st, 67

Krasnodar Regional Art Museum of F.A. Kovalenko

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Historical Park ‘Russia – My History’

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Krasnodar Academic Drama Theatre named after Maxim Gorky

Krasnodar, Teatralnaya Square, 2

Premiere, the Krasnodar Creative Association named after Leonard Gatov

Krasnodar, Krasnaya Street, 44

Krasnodar Regional Puppet Theatre

Krasnodar, Krasnaya Street, 31

Kuban Cossack Choir

The most precious cultural objects of the Krasnodar Region include the State Academic Kuban Cossack Choir – the oldest and the biggest national Cossack ensemble in Russia. It’s the only professional folk team in the country with the uninterrupted successive history that dates back to the early 19th century. Brilliancy, singularity, spirits and the utmost excellence of the Kuban Cossack Choir has won the hearts of spectators in many countries of the world. In a way, the Kuban Cossack Choir is a historical landmark that has depicted military and cultural reclamation of Kuban, the history of classical secular and spiritual culture of Yekaterinodar, tragic events of the Civil War, and the 1930s, the history of the Soviet Grand Style Aesthetics in the form of culture and arts. The choir introduces both the history of certain individuals and the routine of singing and musical culture of Kuban, and historical heroic events and the incredible drama of the Cossacks that are inseparable from Russian history. In 2011, the Kuban Cossack Choir celebrated its 200th anniversary.

Ceremony of Mounting of the Kuban Cossack Army Honor Guard in Krasnodar

A traditional ceremony called ‘Hour of Glory of the Kuban’ is notable for its singularity and colourfulness. It is performed by the Kuban Cossack Army Honor Guard in Krasnodar every Sunday on 12:00 and on holidays – since early spring till late autumn. Honour guard duties are an old tradition that was revived in 2006. The Cossack Guard starts moving from the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral; then the Cossacks wearing beautiful dress uniforms sewn from a pattern of the First and the Second Sotnias (‘Hundreds’) of His Imperial Majesty’s Convoy march through Krasnaya Street to go on the post of the landmark monument ‘Cossacks – Founders of the Land of Kuban’. The colourful event is participated by the Kuban Cossack Army Honor Guard, the cavalry group and the Kuban Wind Orchestra of the Premiere Creative Association.

Kuban Wines

Wine traditions of Kuban have gone a long way fr om the Ancient Greeks to the founders of modern Russian winemaking – agriculturist Fyodor Geyduk and Prince Lev Golitsyn. Nowadays the biggest part of the Russian grapes is gathered and cultivated in Kuban. The secret of high quality of Kuban wines is primarily the terroir, i.e. the natural environment where the grape-vine grows, wh ere wines are made and stored. Unique edaphoclimatic features of Kuban in combination with many years of traditions allow local winemakers to take leading positions in Russia and adequately compete with the best global counterparts. Nowadays the drinking culture and an ability to know a good wine are indicators of prestige and even status, just like speaking French was in the times of Pushkin. The Krasnodar territory has a lot to be proud of. Every bunch of grapes grown in Kuban embraces the abundance of sunlight, freshness of the wind, zest of two seas at once, tenderness of grateful lands, care of hardworking masters and the memory about the history of wine making in our land.

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