Drama in Russian with German surtitles
A Russian theater group decides to put on a play about Stalin. The roles are cast, the set is set up and a preview is arranged for the press.
The President of the Russian Federation also happens to attend this preview and begins to comment on the play with sarcasm and anger. The production is then revised more and more to please the rulers of the past and present.
Solomonov's tragic comedy deals with the unsettling malleability of the human psyche, with its willingness, under certain conditions, to once again accept the practices of a totalitarian past. How can Stalinism still emerge today and how is it possible that modern man approves of dictatorship and oppression?
The play, which has already been translated into English, German, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian and Hebrew, shows not only how easily someone can turn into a tyrant, but more importantly, how willingly his followers accept it.
(Acting in Russian with German surtitles)
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Participating artists
Natalia Seyfi (Produzentin)
Artur Solomonov (Autor/in)
Maxim Sukhanov
Alexander Delfinov
Ilya Kiporenko
