Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Eurovision 2008 winner Dima Bilan is now also a silver screen actor, as his debut as leading role premiered in Russia yesterday. He's actually doing a double role in a drama of love and war that takes place in the first world war and 100 years later in our times. Bilan is lieutenant Andrey Dolmatov, and there's princess Vera Chernysheva until the world turns upside down in the catastrophe that is the war and world is divided into different camps.... but love is immortal and unites people, even after one hundreds years.... The film Hero ( Герой )  is shot in Paris and Lithuania. The movie will premiere in April also in the US and rest of the world under title The heritage of Love .

An emotional documentary film is about to be released telling the story of Lordi, Monsterimies (Monsterman), out on September 26, 2014. It tells what really was going on behind the scenes after the success in Eurovision and hard times later. "Everyone prefers to be liked than hated and bullied" says Tomi Putaansuu aka Mr Lordi. A true story behind the scenes of a monsterboy who didn't want to grow up and became a national hero. What is left? The band is in debt for several hundred thousends euros. They have no gigs in Finland as no local festival organizer seems to be interested in booking them (while abroad they have gigs all the time) "The choice for not being Mr Lordi is that I would be dead" he continues. This is the only official documentary of Mr Lordi, a Finnish national hero and a creative monster, who won the Eurovision Song Contest with his band for Finland. The film has access for the first time behind the scenes, where he has experienced gre...