Das Stück „Die Schlacht von Mossul“ von Alexey Zhitkovsky spielt in der kleinen irakischen Stadt Mossul, in der tausende Zivilisten während des Krieges starben.
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Das Stück beschäftigt sich mit Feindbildern, mit der Militarisierung der Gesellschaft und dem Versuch der Menschen sich vom Krieg, der nicht ihrer ist, zu distanzieren.
Alle auf dem Lübimovka - Echo. Berlin - Independent Anti-War Playwriting Festival eingenommenen Gelder werden an Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen für Ukraine-Hilfsprojekte gespendet.
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Alexey Zhitkovsky is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. He was born in Omsk in 1982 and has been living in Nizhnevartovsk since 2006.
He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at Omsk State University in 2004, and from Heriot-Watt University in 2005. In 2015, he graduated from the Screenwriting and Film Department of VGIK.
Zhitkovsky is the author of plays such as Gorka, Misanthrope, Shop, Cosmos, The Battle for Mosul, Planting a Tree, and others. He has participated in and won drama competitions and festivals such as Lubimovka, First Reading, Author's Stage, Actors, Eurasia, Remarque, Initial Event 21st Century, Culmination, and others. His plays have been staged in theaters in Russian cities, Vilnius, Riga, Kiev, and Belgrade.
As a director, Zhitkovsky has worked on films such as the documentary "Monument," which was a participant in ArtdocNet 2016, and the short film "When I was little, I loved to look at the fire," which won the prize for the best role at Bitter Fest 2021. He is also the author of the script "Stars," which was directed by A. Novikov-Yanginov in 2018 and won the prize for the best debut at the festival "Stalker 2018."
