Movies: Georgi Tovstonogov

The action takes place shortly before the Victory in the ruins of Berlin. But it is not the military actions that are at the center of what is happening, but the fate of people, their sorrows and hopes. A young first-year Dandelion, drafted in the la...

There was no Soviet actor who could claim a greater popularity than Raikin. He was allowed the impossible: to be a satirist. Even during the height of government approved Anti-Semitism, Raikin was a figure to be reckoned with. He was known and belove...

The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov....

A classical romantic comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia in the beginning of XX century....

Television performance, tragicomedy based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky by the Leningrad BDT named after M. Gorky (first staged in 1966)....

The events take place in New York in the apartment of the mother of the owner of a seafood restaurant, Barney Cashman. The man is already over 40. One fine day he thinks that he has lived a gray, boring life: he has never cheated on his wife, never g...

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov’s “boring story” — about the life of an intelligent and conscientious Russian man, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, “lost” in the rural ba...

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The heroes of Shukshin's play are indeed energetic people in the full sense of the word. Jacks of all trades, quick-witted and dishonest, grabbers and thieves, who can be called businessmen of the era of socialism, for whom there was no use for their...

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The wealthy slave trader Xanthus, who imagines himself to be a great poet and philosopher, buys the slave Aesop, a writer of fables. Soon Xanthus becomes famous, but everyone understands who the true author of his new works is....

A filmed stage performance by the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Three miniatures based on short stories by A.P. Chekhov: The Darling Dog, The Wrongdoer, The Groom and the Papa, exploring the absurdity of existence. In each miniature, one of the characters i...

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and tru...

Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky....

About the work of Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov — People's Artist of the USSR, professor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes, and chief director of the Maxim Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater....

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate....

A documentary on the staging of Georgi Tovstonogov's acclaimed production of The Three Sisters at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater, from the first table read to the opening night....