and a feast for the taste buds for the eyes and ears a musical dinner in france is the latest in genre bending performance ours. well as a leading figure of the guard in russia killing set of a brainy cop has made his name directing plays and films that challenge the status quo he's critical of everything social norms the church and of course the kremlin but i made a lot of enemies and in two thousand and seventeen he was put under house arrest supporters said it was an attempt to gag a critical voice that said it but any cough continue to work against all odds. come on rendition of bad is classic noble cause which premie i did this past march it was directed by karylle setterberg he called from a distance using u.s.b. sticks to exchange information a slave course laments their lost time but in this update the original hebrew

slaves have been replaced by actual refugees from syria and afghanistan the director puts the refugee center stage in an operation called for freedom. is considered an on form to rebuild among russian directors his work history great just political and is always good for a headline. his radical productions and remakes of classics some conservatives. the. twenty twelve he was appointed the director of the small state funded global center which he turned into one must face the voters. was. was the director's work and reputation extends well beyond brushes borders. is known for his mo. i'm

a kind of it's a classic productions like to have marius bobber of seville at the school i'm sure open twenty sixteen. was the time and as a film director his latest film live summer tells the story of two soviet rock stars in the one nine hundred seventy s. but things took a turn for the worse when an opus twenty seventeen karylle several brownie called was taken into custody of accusations that he had been involved in embezzling state funding for the us charges he denies. and i'm delighted to welcome thomas alston my are here to the studio a well known director here in berlin currently working at the shall be in the theater and of course a friend since many years of kit is set up but on the cuff is to also have thanks so much for coming in how surprised were you when you heard the news of his release today it was very surprising surprising to me because i was reckoning that sings

will get worse and anyway it's not the end of the story it's all there will be still the trial so we don't know just a lot going on he's he's just been allowed out of that very tight situation i've worked with him many times in the past who started the petition calling for his release back in two thousand and seventeen to tell us a bit more about that and about him. as a person well last time i met him and in moscow i asked him how things are going and he told me well the question is if i already missed the last train to leave russia though he knew that he was threatened you knew that his work was challenging the political authorities and he was aware that might be a danger off of the legal. something going on against him. yeah now it was five hundred forty nine days that he was on the house arrest and. almost two years and really looking forward to form. my first telephone conversations and

to hear how everything's going but he signed today at the court that he's not allowed to leave russia so this still. some threat a lot and a lot of restriction obviously on his movement now his movement but but above all his communications were extremely limited for that for very nearly two years no internet no e-mail no telephone and yet he's been so very productive as we as we saw in the report there how did he do this and he really yeah i was surprised to how he used to do this but he has a good team around him and he has a. faithful and he looks at the videos of the rehearsals and then gets a device gives notes on what he saw and he prepares like this the next rehearsal and this is how we did i think it was reproduction unbelievable an opera in hamburg at the state at the hamburg opera that just opened that is now which we saw

in the thing that just premiered last month the film need to will also just want to prestigious award in russia just last week i believe the need award. what's your feeling on the whole thing do you suspect that the courts actually might be influenced by all the attention no not at all because he had a lot of attention even before he got a lot of prizes before he was already a highly decorated artist it was in russia really on going all of the take that it was just continuing all maybe some of the wards he was given to woo to support his case and to defend him against a song or a tease so i don't think that there is any connection i i would guess that they were aware that everything they had they tried to bring up against him was ridiculous and for example they said that he never did use the money for the missing. and i'd scream production and they were not aware that this production

even went abroad and went to a festival so i was a provable that it was actually provable that he had yeah i'd say that they kind of became aware. there's nothing against him ok we'll kid in the city but i think of a pusher of boundaries who is going back to work very soon we hope at that most girls go theater we will definitely not overall now but in russia in russia i keep our eye on that story thanks very much from one of the limbs resident pusher of boundaries to my thank you for having me thanks so much for coming and you. all she was one of the signatories on that petition for kid instead of ben it comes release nobel prize winning author and feed a yellow neck of all stripes she's best known for her for roche's exploration of things like gender oppression and female sexuality and many autobiographical details flowed into her nine hundred eighty three novel the piano teacher the first

of her novels by the way to be translated into english and certainly not for the faint of heart. sex. what happens when we don't get any or when we don't get the right kind of thing. freud said sexual repression is at the root of most human problems well you know if we did get the next book the piano teacher there are a lot of problems piano teacher erica is in her late thirty's but she still shares a bed with her controlling mother erica's only private life is cutting herself spying on strangers having sex and frequenting peep shows then she meets a charismatic twenty five year old student named by tech. erica would

trade anything for her lost youth and climber would like to trade his youth for experience the young face of a young man simmer softly under street lights and illuminated store windows next to him the pianist shrivels a piece of paper burning in a stove i've lost. erica tries to pull him into her masochistic fantasies but it turns out he plays the role of sadist much too well. nobel prize winner if we get the next novel is graphic brutal and disturbing and he won't be able to put it down. when top chefs work their calling area magic it can get pretty loud but that usually doesn't really matter because the guests don't hear what's going on in the kitchen anyway when it comes to the dinner that we're about to experience it's

quite different because in this case all the cooking noises come together to form a kind of a color narry symphony. shaft taking a relaxed approach to his work. he's not distracted by the drama thing of earth three musicians. because in this show in the french city of long. the chef is also making music with his kitchen utensils. and all through the summer is michael feel more like a chef from a stump but i'm also a musician who's actually i'm both simple to do. the creative force behind the musical dinner concept is the sux oftenest the

project was inspired by her own life experience. i grew up in restaurants it was owned by my grandparents i always found the restaurant noise fascinating. the daughter wants to make people more aware of the connections among the senses hearing taste and smell and kate a kind of edible music chef cooks while the musicians perform. he has taught the ritchie propose most of the food for the one hundred guests attending the show of the main course is a fish shoe a popular dish in southern france it's made with octopus leaks onions and potatoes even as he's preparing the food the chef gets into the rhythm of the show.

don't you remember. i always hear a kind of music when i working in the kitchen everything you touch whether it's the dishes or a pot on the stone. so it makes a certain kind of musical sound crucifix when i'm making french fries for example the noise reminds me of a prove it through a movie troupe and said is the. time now for the second part of the show. which has its own. sound. the musicians now double as wait until by the gas. and drink. just about every show is sold out it's an evening that sounds as good as it tastes.

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