Беларуская дзяржава Вялікае Княства Літоўскае ❖ Мікола Ермаловіч
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Беларуская дзяржава Вялікае Княства Літоўскае ❖ Мікола Ермаловіч
King Stakh’s Wild Hunt
“Based on the 1964 novel by Uladzimir Karatkievich, it has a classic storybook framework: set in the 19th century and told by an elderly Belarusian ethnographer, Andrey (Andrei Bondarenko), it recounts his youthful encounter with Nadzeya (Tamara Kalinkina), a woman of noble birth who is trapped by a family curse. It was laid, generations ago, by King Stakh who, with his men, was duped into drinking poison by her ancestor and who all now stalk the grounds as violent spectres.
The visual stagecraft (set design by Nadya Sayapina and Khalezin), is just as ravishing. An occasional u-shaped front screen gives the action the gauzy hue of a snow-globe, enhancing its storybook Gothicism so that characters resemble figurines from a music box. But alongside is the modernity of a back screen with cuts of film (video design by Dmytro Guk) so that we see the sharp bends in the house on screen as characters move through it on stage.”
«Крывічы верылі ў рай, што называўся выраем. Гэта казачна прыгожы, напоўнены птушынымі спевамі зялены сад з павольнаплыннаю ракой. У адрозненне ад хрысціянскага раю, які трэба заслужыць дабрачынным жыццём, паганскі чакаў кожнага. Пекла не існавала, продкі называлі сябе не рабамі ці слугамі божымі, а божымі родзічамі, Дажбогавымі ўнукамі.»
«Таямніцы полацкай гісторыі», Уладзімір Арлоў
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