German actor Lars Eidinger (Lars Eidinger) were unaware that waiting for him after he agrees to the main role in the Russian blockbuster.
In the movie “Matilda”, which will premiere in October, Eidinger plays the role of a young Prince Nicholas, the future Emperor of all the Russias, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland Nicholas II.
At the stage of completion of the film, the actor has arrived in Moscow, however not for advertising purposes. Actor known for Berlin’s schaubühne theatre came to the press conference to explain that he is not a porn star, as confirmed in Russia.
“My friends hysterically laugh about it,” says Eidinger without a shadow of a smile on her face.
The movie “Matilda”, about the forbidden love of the crown Prince and the young ballerina Matilda Kschessinska, has created in Russia is a real cultural war, which is unlikely to subside in the near future.
The controversy began after the first trailer. It starts with the fact that Nicholas accidentally noticed the exposed chest Kschessinska during the performance of a ballerina.
According to the Orthodox Church and various Patriotic religious organizations, the movie offends the feelings of believers.
According to them, the last Russian Emperor not to put a slave to base desires, as the Church canonized in 2000 killed by the Communists after the revolution, Nicholas II, canonized.
Critics of the film have made its own report on the movie “Matilda” in which the relationship of Nicholas and dancers are called false — despite the fact that it is proven historical fact.
Among the different aspects of the movie that have been criticized, there is a choice of Haidinger for the lead role.
A particular sin and the basis for charges of participating in the shooting porn is the role of Eidinger in the 2012 film “Slotus and the Pelican company,” the British Director Peter Greenaway (Peter Greenaway). It is a historical biographical film about the Dutch artist of the XVI century, Hendrik Goltzius (Hendrik Goltzius).
So now Eidinger resembles in Moscow that he was stage actor who played many classical roles, and was even a member of the jury of the Berlin film festival 2016 — and which never came to star in porn.
“Peter Greenaway is not a Director of porn films,” said Eidinger at a press conference, highlighting each word.
After returning to the presidency in 2012, Vladimir Putin made the defense of traditional values that adopted the position of the conservative Orthodox Church. Including because of this, the position of art in the country has become more cramped. The discussion came a new term — “professional patriot” — for the image Vice.
Last month creative circles was frightened when the police arrested Kirill Serebrennikov, artistic Director of the leading avant-garde Moscow theater “Gogol-center”. According to the police, the government is suspected of theft, but many artists believe it is only a pretext.
In the circles of the cultural elite noted that among the critics of the film there is the godfather of Putin Tikhon and Deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, moving up the career ladder.
Poklonskaya, an outspoken opponent of the film, became the Prosecutor of Crimea after Russia occupied it in the spring of 2014, and in October 2016 became the MP from the party “United Russia”.
Poklonskaya advance demanded to ban the film because it offends the feelings of believers. She reported that it received 20 thousand letters demanding the ban of the film. The most zealous activists even threatened to burn down the cinema, which will host screenings of the film.
This is partly a dispute between members of the elite. The Ministry of culture supported the shooting, and the state has funded a quarter of the film. The main partner on the sets of the Mariinsky theater, whose head Valery Gergiev is one of the influential supporters of Putin.
Director Alexey Uchitel was invited to a Kremlin reception on the occasion of the Day of Russia, and attended the “Straight line” with Vladimir Putin this year.
Sitting next to the Teacher who shared his views, the actor Sergey Bezrukov asked the President what he thinks about this dispute. Putin praised, but said he did not want to intervene in his conflict with Polonskaya. According to him, deny nothing going.
The teacher told Putin that he considers the situation “absurd,” since none of the critics have not watched the film it completely.
Now the Teacher sits next to Agigaram at a press conference a little overwhelmed.
He is surprised that declared the Holy man could not have relations in life.
“I think this picture will help believers to understand it better. He was a man with feelings and passions.”
The teacher praises the leadership of Nicholas II, which in Russia is usually considered weak. He says that he who ascended the throne in 1896, Nicholas was able to surround himself with good advisers, so that, according to Teachers, the country was in 1913, the most progressive.
The film tells about the four years preceding the coronation.
“One of the tasks is to explain how different was Nicholas, not only to tell melodramatic stories. I believe that the time frame of the story, these four years have identified the current country in which we live.”
He advises to watch the game of Eidinger.
“I am convinced that this role no one can play better than Lars,” says the Teacher.
