A no-good second-rate actor receives a fairy-tale offer, a "dream role". Now he is a count in 1830: beautiful women, cavalry guards, tailcoats and white dresses, mazurkas, duels, the first ball of Natasha Rostova, Pushkin, all of that.
It is much cozier...
here than in the murky 2022: wife, son, worries, debts – somewhere far away…
…But just spending a few days in the TV Center is enough to feel a strange stillness, lifelessness. The very air of Ostankino is empty, like distilled water. It cannot be inhaled…
What shall we call this genre sandwich? Costume melodrama, also a family saga, plus… an existential thriller.
SHALL WE CONTINUE AFTER THE ADVERTISEMENT?
ANTON PONIZOVSKY – author of the novels "Transforming into Hearing" and "Prince Incognito", finalist of the "Big Book" prize.
A no-good second-rate actor receives a fairy-tale offer, a "dream role". Now he is a count in 1830: beautiful women, cavalry guards, tailcoats and white dresses, mazurkas, duels, the first ball of Natasha Rostova, Pushkin, all of that.
It is much cozier here than in the murky 2022: wife, son, worries, debts – somewhere far away…
…But just spending a few days in the TV Center is enough to feel a strange stillness, lifelessness. The very air of Ostankino is empty, like distilled water. It cannot be inhaled…
What shall we call this genre sandwich? Costume melodrama, also a family saga, plus… an existential thriller.
SHALL WE CONTINUE AFTER THE ADVERTISEMENT?
ANTON PONIZOVSKY – author of the novels "Transforming into Hearing" and "Prince Incognito", finalist of the "Big Book" prize.
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