Nandu News Reporter Li Chunhua Golden Mask Award winner Yuri Butusov's subversive interpretation of Gogol's drama masterpiece, the high-definition image "The Imperial Envoy" will be screened at Guangzhou Beilei Theater tonight.
The story tells that the playboy Khlestakov lost everything in a bet and was at a loss when he happened to be passing through a city in another province from Petersburg. He was mistaken for an "imperial minister", which caused panic among the local officials and led to snobbery. Society in all its forms. In 1836, Gogol published "The Imperial Envoy", which exposed the dark, decadent and absurd bureaucratic society and stood at the pinnacle of critical realism literature.
Yuri Butusov, who won the Golden Mask Award for Best Director with "The Seagull", returned to Moscow's Satrikon Theater and chose just such a work. As the director himself said: "Gogol's drama has long been regarded as a myth, and everyone knows what it is about, so I hope to tell about the changes and influence that "The Imperial Envoy" has brought to us."
Therefore, Butusov and screenwriter Mikhail Durnenkov jointly made drastic cuts to the original work, breaking up the coherent dramatic conflicts and downplaying the original class differences, allowing many characters to have the opportunity to A long section of memories and confessions.
Picture: provided by the organizer
