GTRK Kultura

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.

Director Vladimir Mirzoev presented the Russian theater with a series of wild spectacles in which Maxim Sukhanov is a carnival substance that explodes all the canons.

The play was directed by Mark Zakharov and is based on the play "Brother Chichikov," inspired by N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls." The performance intertwines the adventures of Chichikov with the phantasmagoric occurrences involving him and Pannochka.

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.

A television version of the award-winning stage adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's tragic farce, mounted in 1994 for Moscow's School of Contemporary Plays Theatre and revived for television in 2009.

A program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov.

A program made for Kultura on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko.

This 1999 program, broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura, features an introduction by filmmaker Elem Klimov and film critic Irina Rubanova to an interview with director Larisa Shepitko that was recorded just after the 1978 Berlin International Film Festival.

The film tells of the life and work of Sergey Paradzhanov. On December 15, 1973, the Master was to leave for Yerevan to start work on a film based on Andersen’s fairy tales. It is not known why he had changed his decision, and left on that very day for Kiev where, two days later, on December 17, he was arrested. The film recounts the years the director spent in prison. The author tries to penetrate the mysteries of the Master’s spiritual world, naming the sources, from which he drew the strength to endure the adversities of not only camp life, but of the life in general that had endowed him with huge talent and made him pay for it in full measure.

The film explores the two central themes of Sergey Paradzhanov’s works that the great master had been particularly interested in: “Eros and Thanatos”… (Love and Death). His reflections on these eternal and never-to-be-solved mysteries of human nature are conveyed in his films and drawings through Paradzhanov’s unique language that has no analogies.