on the Eve of “RG” wrote about the upcoming online premiere of Gregory of Constantinople “the Storm”. Before the network premiere, as usual, the Director acts at different venues and talks about the movie. However, at the festival “Reading” and at “Kinotavr”, which showed in 2019, the film, of Constantinople, said that after the “Storm”, filmed on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky, is going to film “Dead souls” by Nikolai Gogol. It strongly supported the producers Valeriy Fedorovich, Evgeniy Nikishov.
And yesterday, talking about “the Storm” on YouTube-broadcast Some of the channel Kino TV, Constantinople revealed castes “Dead souls”.
“God Forbid, take off – said about Gregory of Constantinople, on the TV series “Dead souls”. – The main role of Chichikov will play Eugene Tsyganov, Sobakevich plays Sasha Roebuck, manilow – Dmitry Dyuzhev, Box – Lena Koreneva, nozdrev – Timofey Tribunal, and Elijah – Efremov. We were supposed to start shooting in may-June because I have everything calculated under the blossoming lilacs, Apple trees, spring bloom, which segued into summer, August”.
One of the roles in the project, the Director generously promised to lead the stream Alexander Anatolievich: “I Have a modern adaptation of this novel, there are many different officials. So I’m happy you are off”.
Gregory also spoke about the shooting of the project “Russian devil”. It turns out the film was shot “on distance”, caused by the quarantine, and this was long before the current situation: “Everything was online, I never left, zoom in supervised shooting. The actors were alone in one place, others in another. Moreover, there were good actors, Mikhail Efremov, Yuliya Aug, Masha Shalaeva, Ivan Makarevich. Somehow there is all this online, was shot in a couple shifts. But generally, of course, all this is not very usual. When you don’t feel on the court the power of the actor, of course, complicated. And artists is difficult, the connection hangs. I like to show the actors how to play, so you start to gesture, jump and run at the computer, it shuts down. In General, a circus with horses.”
Constantinople, who loves to shock the audience and their performances, and movies, admitted that “swung” at “Eugene Onegin” – so once worked on the school literature curriculum.
“I still dream “Eugene Onegin”, I’ve spent years thinking about it, – shared his dream Director. – But I don’t know how to do it using film language. Because when someone reads over this beautiful text, it’s not a movie, this is the theater at the microphone. To alter how Tchaikovsky created the “Libretto”…. Nabokov called it “a sad libretto of Tchaikovsky”. I don’t know how to do it, I can’t think”.
I Hope that the imagination still in Constantinople enough. But first he needs though would to film “Dead souls”. In the current situation it can be very interesting – and from the point of view of shooting, and from the point of view of content.
