Theater Behind Barbed Wire (16+)
Russia, 2019, colour, 90 min.
Director: Inna Kokorina
Director: Inna Kokorina
The history of a unique theater founded in 1943 in Vorkutlag at the behest of two Muscovites – the warden and the prisoner (Mikhail Maltsev and Boris Mordvinov). Every day, actors and musicians came out of the barracks onto the stage at gunpoint to perform and save their lives. During the war years The Vorkutlag Music and Drama Theater showed 600 performances a year, and the troupe consisted of 150 actors. Their children, grandchildren and friends became the heroes of this film.
AWARDS
IFF "Stalker" (Russia, 2020) – nomination Best director; Nomination for the first Moscow Art Prize (Russia, 2020).
Inna Kokorina
Inna Kokorina
graduated from the Novosibirsk Theater School. She worked as an actress of the Perm Youth Theater and the Novosibirsk Globus Theater. From 2004 to 2010 she worked at the TV company "Civilization" (Moscow). As a director of documentaries, she collaborates with various studios and TV channels.
FILMOGRAPHY
Ivan Bunin. Essay On a Free Topic, 2005; Sofia Kovalevskaya. Formula of Love, 2007; Letters from Russian Verdun, 2012; Oleg Yankovsky. Flights in Reality, 2013; Dialogues with Odysseus, 2014; SATELLITE. Pavel Korin and Praskovya Petrova, 2015; An Unwritten book. Boris Babochkin and Ekaterina Georgieva, 2016; Theatrical Romance of Banionis. Donatas Banionis and Ona Banioniene, 2016; Theater Behind Barbed Wire, 2019.
Russia, 2019, colour, 90 min.
Director: Inna Kokorina
Director: Inna Kokorina
The history of a unique theater founded in 1943 in Vorkutlag at the behest of two Muscovites – the warden and the prisoner (Mikhail Maltsev and Boris Mordvinov). Every day, actors and musicians came out of the barracks onto the stage at gunpoint to perform and save their lives. During the war years The Vorkutlag Music and Drama Theater showed 600 performances a year, and the troupe consisted of 150 actors. Their children, grandchildren and friends became the heroes of this film.
AWARDS
IFF "Stalker" (Russia, 2020) – nomination Best director; Nomination for the first Moscow Art Prize (Russia, 2020).