Boris

A dense, theatrical experience that feels like watching a dark poem unfold, requiring patience and rewarding with haunting images.

Directed by

Dmitry Krymov

Starring

Timofey Tribuntsev, Viktoriya Isakova, Mariya Smolnikova

Overview

Based on the play Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin, Dmitry Krymov’s Boris is a metaphor about the fate of Russia, its rulers and eternal values, subverting its ideas behind the cover of Pushkin’s text to show a direct line of the current governance of Russia with its imperial past, as well as all the myths on which Russian identity now rests. A flying raven, a poet, a folk choir, saints and sinners, living and dead - all come to life in the twilight of the Provision Warehouses of the Moscow Museum in this new interpretation of a classic work by one of the world’s most renowned stage directors.

How it feels

Dark, bleak, satirical and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Power, politics, identity, death

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

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