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World History. Bank Imperial was a Russian television commercial series, advertising the now defunct Russian Bank Imperial and aired in 1992—1997. Directed and produced by Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-born director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films and commercials. He is mostly popular for the Russian film Night Watch and its sequel Day Watch , and the American film Wanted .-Early life:Bekmambetov was born on June 25, 1961 in the...

, it consisted of 18 history-themed spots with an average running time of one minute. The spots were shot in Europe

Europe

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, Central Asia

Central Asia

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and in some other places.

The advertising campaign won the prizes of the Moscow International Advertisement Festival (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996), 1994 New Europe Festival in Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

, 1995 Golden Drum and the gold medal of the Houston International Film Festival. All spots are now available for video streaming or downloading

Uploading and downloading

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from the Internet

Internet

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Spots

External links

English translations of narrator's spot texts

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