The message reads:
Dear Mr Mitta,
Please accept my warmest wishes on your 80th birthday.
An extraordinary film director and screenwriter, you have devoted your talent to the cinema. You have created numerous insightful and powerful films with extraordinary storylines and outstanding casts. Since your debut work, “My Friend, Kolka” you have been popular with millions of viewers. Many of your films, including “Air Crew”, “How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor” and “Border: A Taiga Novel” have become legends of Russian cinema.
Your co-workers and followers highly value your teaching work, which fuels the professionalism of young and gifted filmmakers.
I wish you good health, inspiration and success.
Dmitry Medvedev