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Poster
Oleg Nesterov and the Berlin Postmen's Chapel . Presentation of Oleg Nesterov's first solo project. Pre-war Berlin hits, translated into Russian, and some compositions with a special phonetic flavor, in the original language, accompanied by violin, accordion, acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, drum section. "B2" , 20.00.
The Game (USA). Gangsta rap. "B1 Maximum" , 20.00.
Eric Truffaz Quartet (France). An experimentalist mastering new jazz, electronics, rock and even hip-hop on the trumpet. He performs as part of the CityJazz project, the goal of which is to popularize the musical direction united by the concept of jazz & world music. “16 tons” , 21.00.
CONCERTS
“Christmas Oratorio” by J.-S. Bach . Russian National Orchestra. Chamber choir of the Moscow Conservatory. Conductor Vladimir Yurovsky. Soloists Ditta Andersen (soprano, Denmark), Christopher Ainslie (alto, UK), Mark Padmore (tenor, UK), Stefan Loges (bass-baritone, Germany). Conservatory , 19.00.
Spirit of Weimar . Soloists E. Wottrich (tenor, Germany), S. Skigin (piano). House of Music, 19.00.
Christmas Festival . I.-S. Bach. Ensemble of soloists Bach-consort. St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral , 7.30pm.
THEATERS
“Three Sisters” by A. Chekhov. Directed by Andreas Kriegenburg. Starring Oliver Malison, Tanja Schleiff, Anette Paulmann, Silvana Krappach, Katharina Schubert, Paul Herwig, Bernd Grawert. As part of the NET festival. Theater "Kammerspiele" (Munich, Germany) on the stage of the Pushkin Theater , 19.00.
“Boys” by F. Dostoevsky. Directed by Sergei Zhenovach. Starring Alexander Koruchekov, Anna Rud, Maria Shashlova, Alexey Vertkov, Sergey Pirnyak, Andrey Shibarshin. “Boys” is a special plot line in the novel “The Brothers Karamazov”. The high school students in the play go from the merciless bullying of their peer Ilyusha Snegirev to Christian compassion. "Theatrical Art Studio" , 19.00.
"Swedish match" Directed by Nikita Grinshpun. Starring Evgeny Tkachuk, Roman Chaliapin, Pavel Akimkin, Elena Labutina, Yulia Peresild and others. A cheerful musical performance full of humor and inventiveness, youthfully perky and professionally mature. Recently, one of the best Russian theater teachers, Oleg Kudryashov, released another course at RATI, which has already become famous, and several like-minded graduates did not want to leave. Taking as a basis the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov “The Swedish Match” and “The Spouse”, together with his classmate, director Nikita Grinshpun, he staged an original, bright and difficult to define genre performance, where there is a place for both a dashingly twisted detective plot and a witty parody, and theatrical gag. Theater of Nations on the stage of the Meyerhold Center , 19.00.
“Dacha Trilogy” by C. Goldoni. Directed by T. Servillo. Starring A. Renzi, Fr. Paglino, R. Giordano. The performance united three plays - “Dacha Fever”, “Dacha Adventures” and “Return from the Dacha” - about dacha morals of the 18th century. Premiere. Piccolo Teatro di Milano on the stage of the Maly Theater , 19.00.
“Demons” by F. Dostoevsky. Dramatization by Albert Camus, stage version and director Andrzej Wajda. Starring Elena Yakovleva, Tamara Degtyareva, Olga Drozdova, Igor Kvasha, Vladislav Vetrov, Sergei Garmash. “Contemporary” , 19.00.
MOVIE
"Experiment 2: Wave" (Germany, 2008). Directed by Dennis Ganzel. Starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul. The film is based on real events that occurred in a California high school in 1967, and transferred to modern German reality. New teacher Rainer Wegner announces to the class the beginning of an experiment - autocracy week. Soon, a new type of discipline and order, called "The Wave", takes root in the school, spreading to all areas of the students' lives, and more and more new supporters join the class. "The Wave" gives children faith in the possibility of change, but they go too far and "the waves break their banks." As part of the Seventh German Film Festival, “35MM” 19.00.
"Class" (France, 2008). Directed by Laurent Cantet. The former highbrow film critic, and now an employee of the French Playboy, Francois Begodeau, went to teach at a very ordinary high school on the outskirts of Paris, where mainly “children of different nations” study. The film was shot almost in documentary mode (all the students on the screen are authentic non-professionals; the film was based on a partly autobiographical book by Francois Begodeau). Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival. “Five Stars on Novokuznetskaya” 19.30, “Horizon” 21.10, “October” 18.00, 23.00, “Formula Cinema Europe” 22.40.
EXHIBITIONS
"Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his time in photographs." The exhibition-dulogy presents photographs from the family archive of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and photographs of the entire era of 1918-2008 from the collection of the Moscow House of Photography Museum, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, and private collections. Documentary films by Sergei Miroshnichenko about the life of Solzhenitsyn, chronicles and photographs will also be shown. Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", until December 14.
"Family Revelry" An exhibition project combining the works of the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani and his “discoverers” - famous figures of the Russian avant-garde, brothers Ilya and Kirill Zdanevich and Mikhail Le-Dantu. Gallery "Proun" , until December 28.
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