Griboyedov through the eyes of film artists

On September 15, the St. Petersburg State Theater Library opens the exhibition "Griboedov through the Eyes of Cinema Artists", dedicated to the 225th anniversary of the playwright's birth.
The profession of a film artist involves constant work with text. First, it is a script, then a study of the literature on the basis of which it was made, articles about the author and his environment. Further, studying the time in which the action of the film takes place, the film artist studies historical, cultural, biographical, household, gastronomic, scientific and even technical articles. Reads as much as there is enough time. He reads before and during filming and even after filming continues to read texts on a topic already covered. This is how the idea of the future film is formed, which the film artist tries to visualize as accurately as possible.

The exhibition "Griboedov through the Eyes of Cinema Artists" presents selected works of the 2nd year students of the Department of Mastery of the Cinema and Television Artist (MHKiT), St. in which Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov himself becomes a literary character. He is torn between creativity and duty, wanders in the labyrinths of the novel, revealing himself as Minotaur and Theseus at the same time, grows into a surreal creature Wazir-Mukhtar, with whom Persian women frighten their children, finds his love and immediately dies, but forever remains the author of the immortal comedy "Woe from the mind. "

Working with text and historical material, students tried to form their own view of this text. Analysis, immersion in material and fantasy is the sequence they tried to follow.

Entrance to the exhibition by appointment.