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Viktor Ryzhakov

Viktor Ryzhakov

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Biography

Viktor Anatolyevich Ryzhakov (Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Рыжако́в; born 25 May, 1960; Khabarovsk) is a Russian theater director, filmmaker and actor. From 1995 to 2001, he was the artistic director of the Drama and Comedy Theater in Kamchatka, where he created the first Russian board of trustees at the state theater. From 2013 to 2020 - director of the Vs. Meyerhold Theater and Cultural Center. Since 2020 - artistic director of the Moscow Theater "Sovremennik". Director of performances based on the plays of Ivan Vyrypaev: "Oxygen", "Genesis No. 2", "Valentine's Day" (Saratov Drama Theater), "The City where I am", "July", "Sunny Line", "Drunk", "Iranian Conference". Conducts master classes on the topic "The Stanislavsky System and Modern Theater" in Germany, Poland, the USA, Hungary. He lectures and conducts classes on directing and acting skills with graduate students of Harvard University (an educational program at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater), the Novosibirsk Theater Institute, Higher Production Courses (VGIK), RSUH. At Russian and foreign theater festivals, he conducts master classes on the topic "Working with text in modern theater".

Known For

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The play "Collected Works" is an immersion in the fate of one family and at the same time in the fate of humanity. An attempt to unravel the code of absolute happiness and understand whether it is possible at all.

Collected Works

2020
Appointment
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Viktor Ryzhakov takes charge of the Sovremennik theatre after the death of Galina Volchek, who led the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the theatre’s first new production, the new artistic director chooses a play about a family whose members have ceased to understand each other. While working on the play, the director and actors become more and more like the characters in the future production, and find it increasingly difficult to find mutual understanding within their “theatrical family.”

Appointment

2023
Iran Conference
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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

2020
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The love story of a Red Army girl and a captured White Guard lieutenant who survive on a desert island in the middle of the Aral Sea.

Forty-First. Opus Posth

2012
Oxygen
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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

2009
Moscow Beauties
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At the contest "Moscow Beauties", journalist Sergey Kayumov meets the main contender - Masha Malinina. Her life is not much different from the life of her rivals. Without much thought, Masha uses a chance that promises to change her fate - and becomes a victim of a mafia group...

Moscow Beauties

1991
Day of the Dead
7.5

On Parents’ Saturday, the ancestors’ memorial day, a mother and her son travel in an old Sedan. They have far to go: in a day they have to visit five cemeteries, scattered across the region. From the very beginning nothing goes according to plan.

Day of the Dead

2021