Theatre – the non-Creatives
2022
34 minutes
Overview
A documentary telling about the life of the most inconspicuous, but ones of the most important people in theatre. Prop masters, make-up artists, costume and lighting designers – they all don’t receive the proper praise.. but on the other hand, where is their creativity? About this and many other secrets of the cult Moscow theatre RAMT in the film by Matvey Nikolaev and Elena Tyukhanova. Filming took place at the Russian Academic Youth Theatre on June 28-29, as well as on November 4 and 6, 2021 in Moscow. Mounting was produced in January 2022. On February 6, a draft version of the film was released, but later the premiere date was postponed to February 16, due to a request to remove the scene of Elena Tyukhanova at the end of the costume part, where she leaves a historical photograph for the students of “Class-Center”, hugging Polina Lashkevich and Marianna Ilyina-Baltika. This version is kept private on YouTube and is 13 seconds longer.
Top Cast
Aleksey Borodin
Self
Margarita Smirnova
Self
Anna Golosova
Self
Galina Kyoln
Self
Irina Basova
Self
Tatyana Piskuryeva
Self
Galina Monyakhina
Self
Olga Naumova
Self
Aleksey Vesyolkin
Self
Aleksey Blokhin
Self
Tatyana Matyukhova
Self
Nelly Uvarova
Self
Darya Semyonova
Self
Oleg Zima
Self
Natalya Chernyavskaya
Self
Anna Kovaleva
Self
Aleksey Mishakov
Self
Diana Morozova
Self
Dmitry Krivoshapov
Self
Anastasiya Volynskaya
Self
Polina Lashkevich
Self
Marianna Ilyina-Baltica
Self
Yanina Sokolovskaya
Self
Polina Vitorgan
Made-up girl in the folder
Matvey Nikolaev
Narrator (voice)