Divadlo X10 z.s.

Divadlo X10 / Czech (subtit. ENG) / 115 min

On a bleak autumn morning in 1991, a Ukrainian poet Otto von F. wakes up with a crazy hangover on the top floor of the Moscow Institute accommodation building – a temporary home for the crème de la crème of literature of all unions. He feels that he needs some hair of the dog, so he sets out on a phantasmagorical journey through the capital of the empire that is falling apart. From the heights of his “ivory tower”, he descends to the infamous pub on Fonvizina Street, he takes a hot bath in the flat of his Russian lover who is a snake hunter, he witnesses a terrorist attack and he finds the gate to the underworld in the shopping centre Children’s World.
While wandering around the Soviet metropolis full of generals, secretaries, strangers, patriots, drunks and psychics, he manages to find time to write letters to His Royal Highness Olelko the Second (Dolgorukiy-Rurikid), a fictional heir to the throne of Kievan Rus’ – the first known reference to Moscow dates to the times of this empire. On his way, Otto von F. is tested and tempted; sometimes he mocks the trials and temptations, sometimes he resists them, sometimes he yields to them. Otto von F., the Ukrainian poet, gambles with his soul.

Translation: Miroslav Tomek, Alexej Sevruk
Direction, Dramatisation, Scenic design: Dušan David Pařízek
Dramaturgy: Ondřej Novotný
Dramaturgical cooperation: Ralf Fiedler
Music: Peter Fasching
Costumes: Kamila Polívková
Plakát: Terezie Chlíbcová
Foto: Patrik Borecký
Assistant director: Jan Doležel
Scenic and Costume Assistant: Magdaléna Vrábová
Performers: Gabriela Míčová, Stanislav Majer, Václav Marhold, Martin Pechlát

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Photo by: Patrik Borecký

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Supported by: Capital City of Prague, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic