LEGENDE
SERGEY PARADJANOV, KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV, THALIA THEATER, TRINITY CATHEDRAL CHOIR (GEORGIA), KIRILL & FRIENDS COMPANY
World Premiere
By Kirill Serebrennikov, based on motifs from Sergey Paradjanov
LEGENDE presents the world of the famous, in the West largely unknown filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. The dazzling multiplicity and surreal creativity of his films are an inspiration, most recently for superstar Lady Gaga. LEGENDE does not present the biopic of an important artist. Instead, Serebrennikov features Parajanov with poetic wit as the allegory of an artist, a poet, a wanderer, a fighter and a rebel. In ten legends, the kaleidoscope of his life between passion, eccentricity, beauty and oppression emerges, embedded in an infinitely rich cosmos of cultures.
2024 is the centenary of Sergei Parajanov. Born 1924 in Tbilisi, he grew up in the Soviet Union, where he became a film director, taking a stand in his life and his art against nomenclature and repression. As a result, he spent time in prison and hard labor camps and was banned from making films. A wide array of artists, including Tarkowski, Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, Kurosawa, Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Françoise Sagan and Yves Saint Laurent, admired his surreally poetic works and called for his release from prison, in most cases to no avail. Parajanov died in 1990 in Armenia, just months before Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine gained their independence and the Soviet Union collapsed.
Co-produced by Ruhrtriennale, Thalia Theater and Kirill & Friends Company.
„I will take revenge on the world with love.“
Cast
- Direction, Set Design, Costume Design
- Kirill Serebrennikov
- German Translation
- Irina Bondas
- Composition and Musical Direction
- Daniil Orlov
- Choreography
- Ivan Estegneev ,
- Evgeny Kulagin
- Choir director
- Simon Jangulashvili
- Lighting Design
- Sergei Kuchar
- Video Design
- Ilya Shagalov
- Sound Design
- Sven Baumelt
- Soundscapes
- Rustem Imamiev
- Dramaturgy (German)
- Joachim Lux
- Dramaturgy (Russian)
- Anna Shalashova
- Artistic Production Manager Kirill & Friends Company
- Alina Aleshchenko
- Associate Set Design
- Elena Bulochnikova
- Associate Costume Design
- Clara Rosina Straßer
- Costume and stage assistance
- Elizaweta Veprinskaja
- With
- Filipp Avdeev ,
- Odin Lund Biron ,
- Campbell Caspary ,
- Pascal Houdus ,
- Felix Knopp ,
- Nikita Kukushkin ,
- Svetlana Mamresheva ,
- Karin Neuhäuser ,
- Daniil Orlov ,
- Falk Rockstroh ,
- Gurgen Tsaturyan ,
- Tilo Werner
- and as a special guest at Ruhrtriennale
- Georgian State Chamber Choir (Trinity Cathedral Choir)
- Technical Project Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Darko Šošić ,
- Benjamin zur Heide
- Technician
- Christian Benz ,
- Anne Gollasch
- Dressing, collaboration costumes
- Daniela Bermudez ,
- Eva Gamble ,
- Dorothée Grohs ,
- Sinja Höcker ,
- Carmen Oertwig ,
- Christiane Reinkober ,
- Christiane Held ,
- Manuela Heukamp ,
- Rebecca Rühle
Directions and arrival
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
Emscherstr. 71
47137 Duisburg
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