Ivan Zhigon Biography

Ivan Zhigon about the birth of a new world and overcoming the spiritual abyss of Slavic superheroes, among the presidential and artists awarded to the president this year, the famous Serbian director and actress Ivan Zhigon and the collective of the M. National Academic Drama Theater, they were awarded for a significant contribution to the preservation and popularization of the Slavic culture, the implementation projects.

Photo from the personal archive of Ivan Zhigon Young people responded to Dostoevsky - Ivan, the news of your award received a wide resonance in the media of Serbia and Belarus ... - Your president has been a symbol of unshakability for many peoples for many years. To come from Serbia and get closer on stage to such a person who is a historical figure, and to shake his hand has great meaning and weight and for me personally, but also for my people.

It was Alexander Lukashenko to be awarded for the popularization of Slavic culture, who is the longest on the defense of our Slavic values, those values ​​that, in fact, will become the beginning of the new world born before our eyes, is the highest award for me. And he tells us that “beauty will save the world”, that “we can not be on our knees before Western civilization, and we need a rebuff!

Because they sold everything for money, because lies, sneak, deception and villainy added to their sword. Because they preach the Antichrist. ” The audience realized that this prophecy of Dostoevsky deeply concerns all of us. For the opportunity to convey to the viewer the cry of Dostoevsky, I thank first of all the Minister of Culture Anatoly Markevich - he was the first to feel how young people needed just such a hero as Prince Myshkin.

The happiness of coming to a city in which there is a unique acting ensemble of the Gorky Theater. I remembered how his artistic director Sergei Kovalchik at night before the premiere was ready to help the mounters on stage so that everything in his theater was perfect. Only this way-when everyone gives all himself, we can understand what our youth really needs. In the current era of alienation, we all need deep human relations.

They have always been a miracle in the theater, and even more so today. The success of the play “Idiot” proved that every young generation wants a conversation on eternal topics. In contact with values, which, like the fortress, endured the bad weather, the audience becomes stronger, illuminated, powerful. For the spiritual burden that he lifted. For the smile of Aglai, “shining like a dawn”, Olga Zdarskaya.

For the menacing laughter of Rogozhin performed by the artist Alexei Kachan, whom I called the Belarusian Marlon Brando. And Ruslan Chernetsky inspired me to add the role of Dostoevsky to the staging. The tears of Nastasya Filippovna - Veronica Gashkevich - and her rivals Aglaya seem more beautiful to me more than the most beautiful waterfall. At the same time, there are no expensive tickets, because in the center of Minsk your actors give you real adventures.

Only in this way can you build a theatrical space, similar to the cosmic, did I write in my book about the theater that “art is life whose time is measured in silence of the beating of the heart”; that “the history of the human soul is recorded in the theater oka”; that “the scene is a shelter from infinity”; that “in the theater, love attracts the viewer with the power of its gravity”; that "the spectacle is a wonderful creature with hundreds of eyes ...".

Any movement of the artist on the stage for me is almost the same as walking on the water: you believe in a complete soul in what you are doing - you walk on the water! Do not believe - you are sinking! Dad put Tovstonogov, who even spent the night at our house, put it in the Maly Theater. How much the stitch is significant for the world theater, the great man and artist Nikolai Burlyaev understood the most of all.

He was the first of all the actors and directors of Russia to awarded my father to the medal of Nikolai Mordvinov. Nikita Mikhalkov handed him this award. I created three archives at my house: one is dedicated to my father, the other to my mother, Yugoslav Kinoslav, Elena Zhigon, the third great-grandfather-Mitru Martinovich, Prime Minister Montenegro, who was considered the main initiator of the Balkan wars for the liberation of Kosovo and Metohiya.

He, the summer, waited for the Red Army in the year in Belgrade, hugged the Soviet warrior and said: “I have been waiting for you for years as a surviving prisoner of the German concentration camp Dachau, in which my father spent three years, he rarely cried.

Moreover, I remember the moment how my father cried when we watched him on TV in the news, as President Alexander Lukashenko visited Belgrade and a hospital with wounded children during the bombing of NATO. Father Stevo Giogon was a visitor. Excerpts of his interview today gain hundreds of thousands of views. He said in the X years: “What I experienced in the Dachau Hitler concentration camp is a kindergarten compared to the fact that your generation is planning a new world order.

And the new world order is the last stage of capitalism. I’m only afraid that he does not become the last stage of mankind. ”Now I understand what he said: after all, then the bodies were killed in concentration camps, and now they are trying to kill our souls. Therefore, the feelings and smiles of your youth are more than significant for me. I really live in art only when I feel that the energy of life rises, when both the actors and the audience straightened their backs after the performance and feel like after a kiss or confession-as you want when the soul is lit.

Therefore, proudly, together with my son, we wear the surname Giogon, she sacrifices herself with a call: “What a thirst for you shifted! Next to him, we all become children and begin to laugh like children. And young people crave a real smile and feelings. This is the task of art: to offer a way out to a person who is looking for his own way in a world where they want to replace the number one by parent and parent, where the victim is proclaimed by the rapist.

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