Karina Arutyunyan

Video version of the dramatic dystopian performance staged by Alexander Sokurov in Vicenza, on the stage of the world's oldest theater Teatro Olimpico. The plot is based on a free interpretation of the works of I. A. Brodsky, which tells about two characters doomed to life imprisonment.

Giuseppe Bassi, a vivacious 100 years old man, tells his story about war and being held prisoner in Russia during Second World War. From 1942 to 1946 Giuseppe was a prisoner in several different camps: Tambow, Oranki and Suzdal. He got to know many people, heard lot of stories and came across a truly unique piece of reportage. The narrator and second character of the story is the actress Karina Arutyunyan who acts the part of a Russian woman that lives in Italy for years, whose grandfather fought on the Russian side during Second World War. The two characters in this story are emotionally very close; however, they are diametrically opposed. While Giuseppe and his story are both real, Katerina is a fictional character; that is how fiction and reality are closely intertwined along the story.

L’ISS, la Station Spatiale Internationale, ne répond plus. Son équipage est en perdition. Au même moment, un cadavre décapité et couvert de cire est retrouvé sur un toit au Kazakhstan. L’identification est formelle : il s’agit d’Anthony Kurz, un astronaute américain actuellement en mission dans l’ISS. Anna Zarathi, une spationaute française, écartée du programme spatial, et Isaak Turgun, un flic kazakh désavoué par sa hiérarchie, vont tenter de résoudre cet étrange paradoxe...