FILM "TSAR": Kinoklub in Edinburgh

Kinoklub in Edinburgh


TSAR / ЦАРЬ 
Tuesday 22 May, 6pm 
Filmhouse cinema, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh

KinoKlub is expanding! Academia Rossica have joined forces with Edinburgh University's Princess Dashkova Centre and the Filmhouse cinema to bring regular screenings of Russian films to Edinburgh. 


KinoKlub's first Scottish screening will be multi-award winning director Pavel Lungin's historical drama TSAR, telling the violent but fascinating story of the moral conflict between Ivan the Terrible and the Metropolitan Filipp.Russia in the 1560s is in the grip of chaos. Ivan the Terrible believes he’s on a holy mission and that his orders come straight from God. He demands absolute power over his people and will destroy anyone who opposes him. In an attempt to keep a close leash on things, Ivan appoints old friend and scholar, Filipp, to be the head of the Orthodox Church. Filipp’s honesty places him at odds with Ivan, as he dares to question his authority, going so far as to ask the Tsar to renounce his policies of terror: public executions, torture, and land confiscation. 


At the centre of Tsar is the clash between two powerful men, an ideal acting vehicle for two of Russia’s seminal actors, Pyotr Mamonov as Tsar Ivan and Oleg Yankovsky as Filipp. This was Yankovsky’s 71st and final film role; he died in May 2009.


Tsar does not purport to be a historical overview of Ivan’s reign, but focuses instead on internal struggles closer to the throne – issues of duty, friendship, loyalty, power, paranoia, fanaticism, and madness.


LATE ADDITION The screening will be introduced by Dr Andrei Rogatchevski, Russian Programme Director at the University of Glasgow, who will also lead a short discussion after the screening on issues raised by the film.
http://www.filmhousecinema.com/showing/tsar/

PLAY: Anastasia at Pushkin House, London

Mon 26 March 2012 – 7.30pm
Anastasia
Language: In English
26 MARCH UNTIL 21 APRIL


Monday to Saturday evenings at 7.30pm 
Saturday 7th and Saturday 14th (only) matinees at 3pm
Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette – Presented by Walking Thoughts
“ gripping, momentum-maintaining stuff… a richly rewarding treat”
**** Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard.


Back by popular demand
This hugely successful, sell-out play which captivated Russian and English speaking audiences alike in 2009/2010 returns for a strictly limited run this Easter. See it now before it tours to Russia in 2013 as part of the Romanov 400th anniversary celebrations.
The whole first floor of Pushkin House will become the setting of this honest and beautiful exploration of the suffering, loss and also hope not only of a royal family but an entire Russian generation.


The plot
Berlin, 1928. Ten years after the murder of the Tsar and his family at Ekaterinburg. The city is awash with disposessed Russians. Grand Dukes and Princesses scrape a living and long for their motherland. When rumours arise that one of the Tsar’s children survived the firing squad, three men decide to take advantage of the collective hope. They plot to gain access to the murdered Tsar’s millions by passing off a disturbed girl as the survivor. The girl is a fast learner, she makes a convincing Anastasia Nikolaevna, they just have to fool the Tsar’s mother – the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna – and the money will be theirs.


“You absolutely must come and see Walking Thoughts’ production of Anastasia… it’s wonderful to be right up close to this professional cast”
Julian Gallant, who saw the show in 2009
http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/anastasia