In Soviet times, starting years since the 60s, there was a fashion for the role of Lenin of the most unexpected actors, not only deprived of external similarity, but had the role contraindicated for such a role-for example, Kalyagin or Smoktunovsky. It is clear that it was required, on the one hand, to shake Naftalin from the eternal image, and on the other, the image was already so eternal that anyone could play it. Women played Hamlet. Lenin-woman, however, seemed to be not.

On February 27, at the Golden Mask festival, the Extract Conducting program “ Mask Plus” starts. The curator of the program Andrei Pronin talks about her key events to readers COLTA.RU. © Mikhail Karpov . . . Talking about the rise of Russian theatrical art in the province, decentralization, the “doctrine of Malro”, which suddenly discovered its action - and without any, we note, Malro - not exaggeration and not a stretch.

Alexei Petrenko died On February 22, in Moscow, at the age of 78, the theater and film actor Alexei Petrenko died. This was reported by the Union of Cinematographers of Russia .