I was having a dream. Not everything in it was a dream.
Poor brides of small county towns. How difficult is it for them to arrange a personal life! No worthy party.
But by a lucky coincidence, a rich prince came to the city alone. Well also what, what aged? The man though where! In addition to youth, nothing was lost.
One of the local ladies, his good friend, in any way trying to pass for him his beautiful daughter. That at first was capricious, but the prospect of loneliness frightens her.
The old prince is glad to be able to regain his youth. And the wedding seems to have already been decided ...
But, what a fairy tale, if there is no villain in it? Denied once a pretender to the hand of the girl is declared to take revenge. The intrigue twists.
Do not believe your eyes, all matchmaking is just a dream, says the insidious villain.
This prince is simply a fatal man. I arrived, spent one day in the city, but left me indelible memories for life. So he left in full confidence that he slept well. A dream ... so little that can dream!
What if our whole life is only a dream of something that will never happen?
A dream is a lifetime.
Do you want to look inside the old music box?
In this wonderful fantasy of the vocal works of Schumann and Schubert, words and music are equivalent.
Four singers in bright clothes enthusiastically sing in German under the enchanting sounds of guitar, flute and piano.
Strong voices of girls want to compare with great musical instruments.
Each of the elegant performers creates their own unique image for the sad or very unusual funny romances that we are accustomed to.
By the elusive movements of her hands or eyes, it becomes clear what she sings so heartfeltly.
The vocal performance of each aria is beyond praise.
This is the classical music that you want to listen to again and again.
Another talented director of Ivan Popovsky.
"I stretch my dreams under your feet, go easy on them, my you trample on dreams."
"How long ago it was, and was there anyway what was ..."
With these words from a letter written more than a hundred years ago, a performance begins.
Sisters Prozorov are deeply unhappy. These noble young women never found their place in life.
Most recently their father died, the general. Grief from this loss is difficult for them to survive.
They are gasping for the boredom of a provincial city, and most importantly for lack of love.
And their only brother is unmarried.
The eldest of sisters does not like and does not respect her husband.
The average sister remained an old maid. It seeks to fill the void of its life with a multitude of unnecessary deeds.
The younger sister fell in love, but is afraid even to admit it.
How to survive in the whirlpool of passions and anxieties? Men do not live up to their expectations.
They dream about interesting work, about a new life in a big city, about Moscow.
But it's impossible to escape from oneself.
The last coin of his past lives out.
A noble house, a beautiful garden. How good it is here in the spring, when the cherry blossoms!
Now the garden is partially cut down, the villas will be built. Everything is sold, lost.
The new master is happy: his father and on the threshold of such a noble house were not allowed, but now he owns all the property. But also unhappy too: how would he like that this light beauty does not go away so that the former owner of the garden does not leave so that the blooming of the beautiful garden continues like a beautiful fairy tale ... like a dream of that paradise of a carefree noble life in which people do not think about deeds, Trading, money.
An unusual story of an ordinary family.
Children have long grown up and fled from the parent's nest. What can collect all family members in their home? Mysterious disappearance of the father!
Three daughters and three of their beloved come to the aid of the mother to find the head of the family - a teacher and part-time poet. He is an elderly alcoholic, very well-read and educated.
Once he gave his beloved wife a collection of poems, she told him - three children.
But in search of their father they find a heap of family secrets, a tangle of mutual claims and grievances.
Close-up shows the love of loved ones. But not simple, warm, warming the soul. A special love of cultural and educated people. Love with a touch of snobbery.
It turns out that there can be too much love. Now they understand why they bought houses at a distance from each other. Just to not suffocate from this mutual feeling.
They say "I love you", read "you have to love me", the phrase "I missed you" means "you owe me for my love."
It's amazing how much interesting things can be hidden behind other people's doors.
Do you think that you know yourself and have completely taken place in your life? Try to spend a week with all members of your family.
Star and death of Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Listen to the butterfly of the poetic heart.
Listen to it! After all, if the poet did create, he left us his poems, then this is simply necessary!
He wore a yellow sweater of three sunset arshins. And he walked the Don Giovanni and the veil.
Consider all the details, get to know him, as if he were alive. More than alive.
How do we represent it? Great, thundering! A frightened, snooty bully, hiding behind his shield like a shield, for his yellow sweater.
He was very young. And he died, and did not grow up. Poet provocateur, shouting his manifestoes. A man with a child's heart.
He still had a monument to him in his lifetime. How he hated every kind of deadness. And adored all life.
Do you know what, Mayakovsky? And let's live together?
Sugar is the taste of life. Him and ours. Sugar is the sweetness of love. Tart and unbearably bitter.
Chekhov - beloved, dear, close, understandable ...
Four brothers and a sister, a nice, friendly family. In the summer - fishing, in the winter - Cossack songs, amicably, harmoniously: "It's full, you, snowballs ..."
And then - the first love: the sister brought her friend Lika back to the house ...
Then the young Chekhov will go on a trip to Sakhalin and return to our already quite familiar Chekhov, in a pince-nez, with a mustache and beard.
With Lika will have to leave, she will go to Paris with another writer. She will write letters, and Chekhov - will write to her in reply: sweet correspondence, where youth, and feelings, and mature reflections - everything is clear, everything is told - from heart to heart.
Bazarov did not fit in the village life, or he planted the turmoil with his nihilism, that is, the negation of everything and a contemptuous attitude towards principles, or simply bored everyone. He believed in one physiology and matter, and she overcame him: first, earthly love, then typhus.
And in the meantime, the rest of the village paradise lives sweetly: ladies gather flowers, gentlemen conduct intelligent conversations, and enjoy everything with life. Kirsanov Sr. has long been happy in love, and it's time to get married. Younger, too, love smiled, he found his Katenka ...
Two pairs, two weddings - and why should they quarrel, fathers and children? Let them live happily, they live.
Only the one to whom everything is not cute, who has always opposed everyone, tragically finished his life ...
The most romantic love stories have occurred with unusual couples: a beauty and a monster, a prince and a princess-frog ...
In the town on the beach there are rumors of a strange young man.
He can live under water, but pretends to be an ordinary man on land. What if he takes someone to the sea?
In fact, this "monster" is simply in love. Nobody needs him, except for a single one. A sweet and humble daughter of a fisherman stole the heart of an amphibian man.
But evil people never see the "monster" of the unfortunate youth ...
It was not easy at all for the fate of the boy, whom the brave doctor, who transplanted the shark's gills, saved from certain death. Should he swim in the deep sea or live on the earth?
A touching story about two lovers who will be together in spite of all difficulties.
The thirst for money ... And he offered them to earn easily and quickly.
Under strange circumstances, husband and wife get acquainted with an amazing person.
He learns all the secrets of the family. He pokes his nose where he should not, but no one stops him. They are embarrassed to pull it off.
Why did he charm so clever and educated people?
This prohiday is distinguished by his unceremonious impudence and arrogance, but deftly hides his meanness. In appearance, he is quite frank and benevolent person.
And when he advised them to insure their parents' house in the village, they did not feel threatened. They really love their little estate.
Anything can happen. Lightning can enter the house. Or a fire can spread from neighbors.
But it's not so simple. Their new acquaintance framed them. Now her husband faces imprisonment.
How could a scoundrel do this? Why did they forget about everything except for doubtful benefits?
"To whom you trust, you give a sword in hand. They can protect or destroy you. "
"I was a bright person, from whom no one was light."
It's hard for Ivan Petrovich ...
For twenty years he manages the estate of his deceased sister. Her adult daughter calls his uncle Vanya.
He lives fussily and joylessly, accusing others of this. He never married, he suffers from loneliness. Why did he condemn himself to such a fate?
The former husband of his deceased sister comes to the estate, a professor to whom Uncle Vanya has been helping with money for many years. Uncle Vanya falls in love with the young wife of the scientist, Elena. His neighbor, the doctor, is also fascinated by the beauty.
Passions are heating up. Elena does not like her husband. But is she able to change it?
A selfish professor proposes to sell his sister's estate and buy a dacha. For Uncle Vanya, this will be the end of his familiar life. He is so angry that he shoots a relative.
Director Andron Konchalovsky used in the play several original cinematographic techniques.
Why do people not understand and torture each other?