Directing
The Nizhny Novgorod Youth Theatre troupe is rehearsing William Gibson's play "The Miracle Worker." In search of authenticity, the actors find themselves behind the scenes of blindness and deafness. They enter the real world of a boy named Petya, his mother, and his teacher. Episodes from the play about the education of a deaf-blind child unexpectedly echo real life, but reality is always more complex and profound than fiction.
Zhgon, matras, pimokats - those who rolled (rolled) felt boots all over Russia called themselves differently. They communicated in their secret languages and kept the craft secret. The authors of the film tried to eavesdrop on secret dialects and spy on the secrets of the craftsmanship of the remaining handicraftsmen, who to this day burn and tumble in their little washrooms.
Bering Island in the Kamchatka Territory is a point that the future rector of the local church, priest Vladimir Mironov, did not immediately find on the map. The Commander Islands became home to his extended family, but this was not how the graduate of the Moscow Theological Seminary imagined his life.
