Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (i) on May 16, 2001 at 11:32:21

In Reply to: Re: Yes, I remember it posted by Dmitry on May 16, 2001 at 11:09:44:

Wasn't is actually "Proshlym Letom v Chulimske"? That was a great play at BDT - I don't know if that name means anything to you, not being from Leningrad, but for number of years that was the best drama theater in perhaps the whole of the USSR, under Tovstonogov. Impossible to get tickets, but fortunately my mother suddenly found some in-way with someone, so we spent so many wonderful nights there, we saw pretty much everything, and each was a gem. It was always the same - as you got up the escalators of the Vladimirskaya subway station, you would be asked for spare tickets - that's about a mile from the theater, and the requests would get more frequent as you got closer.

My memory is perhaps playing tricks with me, but was it Kriuchkova in the main role?

Don't remember Dal''s film - perhaps after my time?

Anyway, we are talking about something that has been suppressed in my memory for 25 years or so... but it is so nice to recall it... so thanks for that.

The BDT is still there, but no one asks for spare tickets there anymore... sad times... and with Tovstonogov's death it is simply not the same... and all those wonderful actors who used to be there - the best of the best in the country - how could anyone forget? Forget Lebedev in the "Kholstomer"? This is stuff the legends are made of.