«I Have Written Love to Russia All My Life». Valentin Rasputin’s dramas on stage and screen.Devoted to the writer’s 80th anniversary

Devoted to the 80th anniversary of the writer Valentin G. Rasputin /15 March, 1937 – 14 March, 2015/, a retrospective of the productions of the writer’s works on the stage and in the cinema is held at the Theatre Gallery on Malaya Ordynka.

Exhibits were selected from collection of the Bakhrushin Museum, the Okhlopkov Irkutsk Drama Theatre /the exhibition was prepared together with the theatre from the birthplace of Valentin Rasputin/, theatres and theatre museums of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Omsk, Pskov, Ufa, Arkhangelsk, Penza and other cities of Russia, as well as from collections of the writer’s relatives.

The prose of Valentin Rasputin was highly demanded in the Russian theatre and cinema at the turn of the 1970’s-80’s. Then in five years more than 40 performances has been staged in theatres throughout the USSR. Rasputin showed the everyday life of his heroes, the inhabitants of the Siberian villages, so that their images acquired universal significance.

Exhibition visitor will have the opportunity to see photographs, posters, video fragments of the most significant works of Valentin Rasputin «Money for Maria», «The Last Term», «Live and Remember», «Farewell to Matyora», created in various theatres throughout Russia since the 1970’s up to 2010’s. For example, the productions of the novel «Money for Maria» on the stage of the Yermolova Theatre /1979/ and the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre /2011/, the Kamal Kazan Drama Theatre /1982/ and the Pushkin Pskov Drama Theatre /1978/, as well as in Ryazan, Orel, Cheboksary, Ufa… Other works of the writer are also shown at the exhibition.

Special hall of the exhibition is devoted to cinema versions of the writer’s works, which became a classic of the Soviet and the Russian cinema.

Photo by Boris Dmitriyev.