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The Minsk Times Thursday, August 29, 2013

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Film events developed

Lute revival in Pinsk

near Smorgon

Unique Pinsk master restores ancient musical instruments while performing medieval music all over Brest Region

Brest actress Yanina Malinchik to play a leading role in Russian

film Death Battalion

Igor Ugolnikov, the screenwriter and producer, tells us, “e fact that an actress from Brest was chosen for this role shows the special connection with our last film: Brest Fortress. She proved her talent and character during film tests.”
Death Battalion will be the largest Russian film project devoted to the First World War, being filmed with support from the Russian Ministry of Culture. It is to provide 50 million Russian Roubles of the 250 million total budget.
e film tells of a women’s detachment, created in St. Petersburg at the order of the 1917 provisional government, to raise the fighting spirit of the army. Events are being filmed near Smorgon, where this female battalion fought heroically.
Shooting begins on 31st August, with the premiere scheduled for 1st August, 2014, coincidingwiththeMemorial Day for all those soldiers who died during the First World War.

Experimental theatre scene

By Lyudmila Ivanova

Yury Dubnovitsky shares his love of ancient instrument with pupils

Play by daughter of Charlie Chaplin being staged in Minsk from 28th September to 21st October

By Yuri Chernyakevich

lute was made and, since then, Yuri lute as a promising instrument.” Mr. familiar with music will understand has been producing new instruments. Dubnovitsky teaches pupils at the lo- that it’s a true challenge to learn to
Pinsk’s residents are now able to His work has made him well-known cal musical school, making them tune play the lute,” explains Mr. Dubnoadmire lute music, aſter two centuries far beyond Belarus. He explains, their instruments for a full five min- vitsky.

  • e Belarusian capital will be- of oblivion. Many years ago, this mu- “Many facts confirm that, in the times utes before playing. On hearing the
  • Despite the difficulties, Yuri’s pu-

come a huge theatrical playground sical instrument was viewed as Bela- of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the melody of an ancient knight’s ballad, pils are demonstrating progress and, during the 3rd TEART International rus’ musical symbol — alongside the lute was popular in Novogrudok, there’s no doubt that you are trans- with their teacher, oſten perform at eatre Forum, organised by ART cembalo. Aſter the Grand Duchy of Nesvizh and Pinsk. Amateurs and ported to another time: perhaps to a Pinsk and Brest festivities, as well as Corporation and OJSC Belgazprom- Lithuania’s split in the late 18th centu- professionals played the instrument, medieval ball celebrating the birthday visiting other towns across the Brest bank. e best theatres from Belarus, ry, it almost disappeared but, around which is interesting from a musical of a nobleman or his daughter’s wed- Region. eir small band is named Russia and abroad will present sixteen 15 years ago, Pinsk school teacher and historical point of view. Unsur- ding. plays, with seven staged by independ- Yuri Dubnovitsky decided to restore prisingly, I was eager to revive it.”
Saltarello — aſter a genre of Italian
Modern Pinsk lutists can now dance and instrumental music popuent European theatres. e experi- this medieval Belarusian ‘mandolin’. ments aim to show new, unusual and, sometimes, provocative modern and foreign experts and, like Stradivarius, 16th-17th century music. He tells us, from simple. “A lute has 13 double
According to the master, the ‘Be- play the most complicated melodies, lar in Europe in the 14th-16th cen-
Mr. Dubnovitsky learned from larusian sitar’ is suitable not only for although their ancient ‘science’ is far tury.
Alongside the cembalo, the lute devoted all his time to inventing his “Any kind of music can be played — strings, so the positioning of hands was once Belarus’ musical symbol, own ‘medieval guitar’. Several years including jazz, ragtime and modern and technique of playing differ drasti- spreading countrywide, thanks to on, success arrived: in 1999, his first ballads. With this in mind, I view the cally from that of a guitar. All those Pinsk enthusiasts’ efforts. traditional theatrical forms.

Films screened

Choirs sing out, with true

on the square

To Steal Belmondo comedy

hearts, souls and minds

screened at Kinoshock Festival

Nikolay Knyazev’s film, shot last

International KHORoSHOW music project opens new TV season

year, is being screened at the 22nd Open Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia: Kinoshock. e Belarusian film will be shown as part of the out-of-competition programme:

Cinema on the Square.

Aurelia Thiérrée

Choirs from Belarus, Russia,
On 5th and 6th October, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland,
Belarusian State Academic Musical Serbia and France are taking part, eatre will be treating audiences to assessed by an international panel of Whisper of the Walls (France) staged judges. Among those sharing their by the daughter of Charlie Chap- expertise will be Eurovision-2007 lin, Victoria Chaplin iérrée; the winner Marija Šerifović of Serbia, granddaughter of the great come- popular French singer Desireless, dian, Aurelia iérrée, will take the and Chervonye Gitary band leader lead comedic role. e play encap- Severin Krayevsky.
is year’s festival will be held from
14th to 21st September in Anapa, with the top Golden Vine Prize awarded to the best producer of a feature film. Winners will also be announced under the categories ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Screenplay’, ‘Best Actress’, ‘Best Actor’, ‘Best Cinematography’ (in honour of A. Knyazhinsky) and special Grand Jury diploma. Last year, the film festival

  • sulates Chaplin’s hallmark style.
  • e show will consist of three

On7thOctober,theWarsawNew big concerts: two semi-finals and
eatre will present (A)pollonia at a final. Each semi-final will feature Minsk-Arena: a difficult and impu- four choirs, selected through a draw,

At KHORoSHOW only the strongest will win

Belarus will be represented by hip-hop and reggae, perform- award for ‘Best Actor’ went to Vladimir dent montage inspired by traditional with one winner from each group young Belarusian Medley choir, ing cover-versions of well-known Svirsky, for his leading role as Suschentragedy and literary works about the going through to the final round. Holocaust. e international programme will come to an end with final two choirs will also battle ing and beat-boxing amateurs. which formed in Minsk this year, songs, as well as their own original ya, in the film adaptation of Vasil Byk-

  • Besides the usual singing, the comprising soloists in choral sing- compositions.
  • ov’s story, In the Fog, directed by Sergey

e semi-finals will be broad- Loznitsa. e film was co-produced by the play MUCK (Hungary) about through tasks to show their knowl- Members sing unaccompanied in cast by STV TV Channel on 14th Belarus, Germany, Russia, Latvia, the the universal malady of discontent. edge and imagination. various styles, including pop, rock, and 21st September. Netherlands and the EURIMAGES.

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