a great success with such works as Ole Bornedal's "Nightwatch", which he remade in Hollywood, Jan Troell's "Il Capitano" or Kjell Sundvall's exciting speculation about the murder of the Prime Minister Olof Palme, "The Last Contract". 
Last year's event was a huge success with the public and the press even without the previous year's 40th jubilee celebrations or presence of the festival's Honorary President Liv Ullmann, who was unable to attend. The Nordic Film Days' top award, the NDR Promotion Prize, endowed with DM 25,000, went to the provocative road movie "Bye Bye Bluebird" by the talented Katrin Ottarsdóttir from the Faroe Islands, whose first film "Atlantic Rhapsody" had won the Film Prize of the Nordic Film Institutes in 1989. Other movies that received awards include "Breaking Out" (Sweden), "Give Us Our Skeletons!" (Finland/ Norway), "The Tough Ones" (Finland), "Mifune" (Denmark) and the children's films "Tsatsiki" (Sweden) and "Katja's Adventure" (Denmark). 
Starting on November 2, 2000, the Nordic Film Days Lübeck will again be pleased to welcome the film scene from the Scandinavia, the Baltics and Germany for a survey of the finest in the Nordic cinema.

Stop to fossil fuels

The city of Växjö and its project Fossil Fuel Free City has been chosen as the Local Initiatives Award Winner for Excellence in Atmospheric Protection. 
The award proves that our long term work with Agenda 21 and climate protection is a major success, says Mayor Carl-Olof Bengtsson and Vice Mayor Bo Frank. 
Over the last ten years great effort has been made in the city of Växjö to increase renewable energy sources. Industries, NGOs and private citizens have joined in the task force with the result that emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels in the heating system are less than half the current national average.
In 1996, the Växjö Executive Committee unanimously decided to stop using fossil fuels in its

activities. Furthermore, the aims set by the Climate Alliance, of which Växjö is a member, have been unanimously accepted: Emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels in the whole municipality shall be reduced by 50 per cent per capita by the year 2010. 
The reduction, as agreed upon in Agenda 21 roundtable discussions with stakeholders, is to be achieved by changing behaviour patterns, increased energy efficiency and primarily substituting oil for bio-fuels. 
The local partners, involved in the implementation of the Fossil Fuel Free Växjö programme , are positive that this work will contribute to economic growth within the region. 
The Atmospheric Protection Award recognises excellence in climate protection and air quality management with the highest scoring going to the projects dealing with both issues. This award relates to local implementation of the UN Convention on Climate Change including the Kyoto Protocol. 
Behind the award is the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, ICLEI, together with Saitama Prefecture in Japan. Also, such entities are involved in the selection process: 
- UN Secretariat for the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) -As the UN agency responsible for the implementation of Agenda 21, the UNCSD has been supportive of the role of local governments in implementing LA21 or sustainable development processes. 
- United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) -As the UN agency responsible for the implementation of global agreements on the environment, UNEP is also interested in the contribution being made by local governments towards improving the local and global environment. 
- Earth Council - The Earth Council is working towards the implementation of Agenda 21 through the National Councils for Sustainable Development and international and regional NGOs. The Earth Council will bring an international NGO perspective to the awards.

From the Grand Palace 3 monumental cascading fountains lead to the Lower Park with 173 fountains on its ground

Historical residence of Russian emperors

The city of Peterhof founded by the Emperor Peter the Great in 1705 as his summer ceremonial imperial residence. Thanks to the efforts of the ingenious architects there was created a pearl of the world culture with numerous palaces, parks and a unique fountain system which does not have its analogues in the whole world. 
Being located in 25 km from St. Petersburg, the former capital of Russia, Peterhof appeared to be a place of constant realization of magnificent holidays for terms of imperial family. Stretching within 20 km along the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland and occupying 6900 ha, Peterhof is marked by the fact that one fifth part of its territory falls on gardens and parks. 
The grandiose complex of palace and park ensembles of Peterhof includes 16 historical parks and about 30 palaces. The number of monuments of the architecture being preserved makes more than three hundred, some of them being included into a list of monuments of the world importance. The palace and park ensembles appear to be objects attracting a great number of tourists. In the city is located one of the world wide known museums -Peterhof State Museum reserve natural science faculties of StPetersburg State University. 
With such a beauty it is really place worth visiting.