Plot synopsis

The film "Between ourselves, we arrange things" is one of the parts of the project "The Empire of Darkness" which includes three other films: "The Forest", "The Don, Patrons and Worshipers", and "Mad Money". The project is interesting not only for a new interpretation of these proverbial comedies but also for the opportunity to discover great theater actors unknown to the majority of cinema spectators. The first titles of this play by Ostrovsky were "Bankruptcy" and "The Insolvent Debtor". The play was published in 1850 in the magazine "The Muscovite" but its performance was banned by personal order of Nicholas I. The Irkutsk theater in 1857 and the Voronezh theater in 1860 ignored the ban and staged the play. In 1861 the premiere of a distorted version of the play was presented at the Alexandrinsky Theater. In 1872 the People's Theatre staged the play for the first time without cuts at the Polytechnic Exhibition. The theatre was closed shortly after. The first staging of the author's original version was made at the Pushkin Theatre in 1872 in Moscow. Director Igor Maslennikov made the first film adaptation of the play in the film "Bankruptcy" in 2009.

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2013

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