Rehearsals

Language : Russian

Year of release : 2013

Run time : 1h43m

Genre : Drama

Cast : Pyotr Fyodorov

The movie opens with actor Igor and his theatre production designer girlfriend, Sasha, talking on what seems to be a rooftop, for apparently the whole night. After he tells her he's had enough of her, he tells her he can't live without her and the other way around.

 

It's morning, and Sasha has theatre work, while Igor has an audition. Although he rehearsed his lines, once there, he's told they changed everything, so he has to learn new lines. He reads them well, but the director is not impressed.

Leaving, he meets a friend who got a tv series contract, and he's asking him for money. The man gives him 1000 Rubles, although he remembers Igor still owes him the money he gave him the last time.

Igor tells Sasha he's got an offer to play in a movie in Zealand, and is asking Sasha to go with him, but she can't leave work.

Soon after, she's being evicted from her apartment as she doesn't have money to pay the rent (which her landlord increased), the neighbors complain she brought cloth moths in the building with her theatre clothes, and that she makes noise.

She asks Dmitri, the director of the play, to give her the money, and he's asking her to move in with him, as he loves her (apparently they've been having an affair as Igor is a drunk) .

She does, but then she finds out Igor disappeared and looking for him, she finds him in the hospital as he thinks he has stomach cancer. So she leaves Dmitri.

The movie honestly bored me, I watched it for Pyotr who’s one of my favorite actors, who, as always, appears for 2 minutes in the movie!

I feel like saying it's a movie about nothing, but it's about people trying to make ends meet in the theatre and movie business.

Sasha is all over the place she keeps on going between Igor and Dmitri, and is annoying. She leaves one for the other the whole movie.

There's a scene in which some men talk in Romanian and they call it Moldavian! Republic of Moldavia was part of Romania as Basarabia until the Soviets took it. They always spoke Romanian!

The acting was good.

I hated the Jazzy soundtrack.

If you’re interested in watching it, you can find the full movie on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrU4Esba70Q

Rating : The horror, the horror !