
Ivan Vyrypaev
Writing
Biography
Ivan Aleksandrovich Vyrypaev (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Вырыпа́ев; born 3 August, 1974; Irkutsk) is a Russian playwright, screenwriter, film/theater director and actor, who works in Russia and Poland. He is a leading figure in the Russian New Drama movement. He is best known for his plays "Oxygen" ("Kislorod") and "Delhi Dance", which have won numerous awards in both theater and film. Father — Alexander Nikolayevich Vyrypaev, a teacher at Irkutsk Pedagogical College No. 1, was awarded the memorial medal "Patriot of Russia". Mother — Vera Timofeevna Vyrypaeva, had a higher trade education, tragically died. In 1995, Ivan graduated from the Irkutsk theater school, after which he worked as an actor of the Magadan Theater for one season, then for two seasons as an actor of the drama and Comedy Theater in Kamchatka. In 1998, he founded the "Space of Play" theater studio in Irkutsk. In the same year, Ivan became a student of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, studying in absentia at the department "Director of Drama Theater". In 1999-2001, Vyrypaev taught acting skills at the Irkutsk Theater School, on the course of Vyacheslav Kokorin. In 2005, he created the agency for creative projects in the field of cinema, theater and literature "Kislorod Movement" In 2006, he worked as the art director of the "Praktika Theater". In April 2013, he took up the position of artistic director of the "Praktika Theater". Vyrypaev became famous in Europe as a theater playwright, director, and author of a number of projects. His productions, as well as performances based on his plays, are performed in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, England, France, and Canada. The play "Dreams "has been translated into English, French, German, Bulgarian, and Polish, the play "Valentine's Day" has been translated into German, and the play "Oxygen" has been translated into a number of foreign languages. He taught at GITIS, at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, and at the Warsaw Academy of Theater Arts. Works in Moscow, lives in both Poland and Russia.
Known For

Graduate students in the Historical Museum find a diary dated 1919. In the diary, the author confesses to the murder of five people. The terrible deeds of the past are the key to unraveling a number of crimes committed in our day.
The Murderer's Diary
"List of Lovers of the RF" is a live-action series. The plot of each film is based on real events that happened to the participants of the Russian TV talk show "Windows" ("Okna"). The brightest and most talented representatives of young Russian filmmaking are invited to participate in the new TNT project. Each of them will make one film. The theme of the stories is love, the heroes are residents of modern Russia.
List of Lovers of the RF

The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bummer. Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends, the woman he loved and was nearly killed in the first installment of the film tries to begin a new, peaceful life. But is it possible to do? Has Russia changed and do "bratki" on black "bummers" no longer control business? Can he escape his past?
Bummer 2

In the year 2012 (a future time when the film was made), an underground laboratory ten kilometres beneath the steppes of Western Siberia is the stage for the top-secret Project BUNKER. Distinguished scientists have been working on a mysterious scientific experiment for the last three years, with a strange, anonymous, and extremely popular erotic manuscript circulating through the complex serving as their only distraction. Now a new researcher has arrived — a veterinarian, despite the lack of animals at the facility — and the scientists already in place are wondering why.
Bunker, or Scientists Underground

The action takes place on "Like a Radio". The rating of the radio station is approaching zero, the Agency that places ads on its air is suffering losses, advertisers are demanding a change of managers and are going to determine the station's policy themselves, the management staff is really changing, but the new bosses will not blindly obey the instructions of the advertising Agency.
Money

They saw each other only once. At a wedding with lots of alcohol. Their eyes met and that was it. They didn't understand rationally what happened to them but they felt that they cannot keep living and breathing without each other. Cosmic magnetism with irresistible intensity pulled them together. They no longer belonged to themselves, their families and friends and that's how a tragedy evolves.
Euphoria

Catholic nun travels to another country and make spirit revolution.
Salvation

The two main characters, a man and his female friend, came to watch the play. Things happening on stage and real life are gradually mixing up, and now they will have to figure out what is «reality» in the world of endless entertainment.
Intertainment

The film-spectacle “UFO” is the story told by people from the different countries around the world about their contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization. The play is some kind of therapy, as it touches on the basic structures of human mentality, such as egoism, safety, belief in god, gratitude, the spiritual path, etc. According to statistical research, 6 million people claim that they have had contact with aliens; 2 million of them say that they have been hijacked and spent some time in an unknown space. Only 9 tell about something absolutely unbelievable.
UFO

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.
Crush

Christmas night. Married couple. All the guests have left and it’s time to dig into the marriage relationships – do husband and wife still love each other or not? If they have ever loved at all… Are they telling the truth or are they lying? Can they forgive and forget? Should they stay together or get divorced?
Sunny Line

Two women are in love with the same man. After his death, some kind of friendship comes into being.
The Best of Times

Representatives of the Danish and world intellectual elite, the best minds of our time are going to a conference in Copenhagen to discuss the urgent "Iranian problem" — violation of rights and freedoms, daily executions, torture and military conflicts in the middle East. An orientalist, theologian, political scientist, military journalist, the wife of the Prime Minister (formerly a well-known TV presenter), writer, priest, famous conductor and Iranian poet — winner of the Nobel prize in literature take turns on the stage.
Iran Conference

The Diary of Polina Żerebcowa, now an acclaimed writer and journalist, is a moving record of entering adulthood during the course of the war. The Chechen author describes her childhood and youth, which spanned from 1994 to 2004. First as a nine – year-old girl, then as a teenager, she documents her process of adolescence, presents her own vision of the world and immortalizes the experiences that shape her-she records her whole life, which takes place during the horrific Chechen wars. And although Polina's diary is a loose personal note, it is exceedingly evocative and lyrical. It leaves no one indifferent. The show, whose main character is the aforementioned diary presented by the outstanding actor, Andrzej Seweryn, gives Polina her voice so that she can tell us about what she experienced, what happened over the course of 10 years, during the two Chechen wars. Thus the story of how to remain human in the most inhumane circumstances is created.
The Chechen Diary of Polina Zerebova

Two people play out a story of love and desperation that's enacted through music in this drama from writer and director Ivan Vyrypaev. Sasha (Alexei Filimonov) is a man in his twenties who lives in the small town of Serpukhov and has fallen in love with a woman who is also named Sasha (Karolina Gruszka).
Oxygen

The main character of this one - Antonina - a wife, mother, mistress of the house, wakes up after an unusually bright dream and realizes that she has not lived her whole life as she wanted. There were strangers around, people she didn't like, and it wasn't her life at all. She realizes this so clearly that even at the funeral of her own husband, Antonina does not cry, is not killed, and it seems that this death does not concern her at all. And this is despite the fact that my husband lived a long and prosperous life...
Antonina Turned Around

A strange woman in a mysterious world out of time and out of geography…Eccentric, funny, poignant, she will not leave anyone alone…
Lady

The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.
Alisa: Excitement

According to Vyrypaev’s idea, “Excitement” is a play about the “Author”. The action takes place in New York, in Manhattan, in the apartment of the famous American writer of Polish descent Ulie Richte, whose role is played by Alice Freindlich. A Polish journalist, Krzysztof Zelinsky, takes a very important interview from her, a closed and non-public person.
BDT Digital: Excitement

Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi