On January 30, a stamp dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Mosfilm studio was put into postal circulation

The Mosfilm Cinema Concern is the leading enterprise in Russia, teaming up the best creative and production cinematic forces. On January 30, 1924, the first film shot here On Wings High Up by film director B. Mikhin was released and this date is considered today the birthday of the Mosfilm. The official emblem of the film studio - the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture against the background of the Spasskaya Tower – for the first time appeared on the screens in 1947 in the Vesna (The Spring) film directed by G. Aleksandrov.

The company has produced more than two thousand full-length films, on which more than one generation of filmgoers have grown up. In different years, remarkable film directors worked here, whose films belong to the golden fund of national and world cinema art.

Currently, the film concern is an exemplary high-tech enterprise with the state-of-the-art equipment. It carries out a full cycle of domestic film production, that is films, TV series, commercial broadcasts, various programs, music videos and a lot more.

The postage stamp provides an image of the Mosfilm logotype against the background of a poster with the titles of feature films produced at the film studio.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow, as well as a maxi-card and an illustrated cover with the postage stamp, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for Moscow inside.


Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 100 rubles.
Stamp size: 35×35 mm, sheet size: 170×100 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with 8 (4×2) stamps.
Quantity: 72 thousand stamps (9 thousand sheets).

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