DIRECTED BY ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY
WITH ALEXEY GRISHIN, NATALIA VDOVINA, LARISA KUZNETSOVA, YULIA VYSOTSKAYA, GALINA BOB, ALEXANDER BOBROVSKY, ALEXANDER DOMOGAROV, PAVEL DEREVYANKO, VITALY KISHCHENKO, VLADAS BAGDONAS, VLADISLAV BOKOVIN, EVGENY RATKOV, VLADIMIR GORYUSHIN, IRINA KARTASHEVA, RAMUNE CHODORKAITE, ELENA LOBANOVA, ALEXANDER PAVLOV
SET DESIGN ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY
COSTUMES RUSTAM KHAMDAMOV
MUSIC ALEXANDER SKRJABIN, SERGEY RACHMANINOV, FRANZ SCHUBERT, EDWARD ARTEMIEV
LIGHT DESIGN ANDREI IZOTOV
SCENIC DESIGN LUBOV SKORINA
PRODUCTION TEATRO ACCADEMICO STATALE MOSSOVET
Project founded
with PAC Campania 2013-2014
Italina premiere
Language Russian, with italina subtitles
Running time: 3h
Venue Teatro Mercadante
Dates
13/06/2014 20:30
14/06/2014 20:30
The second part of a double performance by Andrei Konchalovsky; Uncle Vanja and Three Sisters which have previously received great acclaim from the British public. A unique opportunity to hear Cechov’s works in its original Russian language.
«My interest in Cechov – affirms the director – started when I was at university and enthralled with the works of Bergman. He wrote that he always read Cechov before starting a film to put himself in the right frame of mind. I was very surprised indeed by this affirmation. Bergman said that Cries and Whispers was inspired by Three Sisters».
The dramaturgy is centred around the children of a general who has recently passed away: Maša, married to a university professor that she doesn’t love; Ol’ga, a high school teacher and Irina, the youngest and most beautiful. Their brother Andrej, a young and gifted man with a promising intellectual career ahead lives with his three siblings. The three sisters dream of moving to Moscow to escape from the suffocating life of the provinces, however, destiny will shatter their hopes for love and emancipation
