Boris And The Bomb

There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris has had killed in order to seize the throne appears as an impostor. Adapting Pushkin's epic poem, Mussorgsky composed a meditation on the solitude of power, a populist drama in which the real protagonist is the Russian people with its burden of eternal suffering. Ivo Van Hove is no stranger to grand political frescos. This is his first production for the Paris Opera.

The hero of the film is a literary critic, Doctor of Philology, professor of the Department of the History of Russian Literature at the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University, a researcher of the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov – Boris Valentinovich Averin. Russian Russian writers, about the hidden meanings of the Russian soul and about human destiny unfold in front of the viewer the most interesting monologues about Russian writers, about the hidden meanings of the Russian soul and about human fate. Drawing pictures of the past, remembering his childhood, the hero of the film finds answers to the eternal questions of our existence there. We see Boris Valentinovich not only in an official, but also at home, which helps to reveal the image more deeply. Famous writers, publishers and philosophers – Alexander Sekatsky, Sergey Nosov, Mikhail Reizin-express their opinions about him.