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Savoy-teatteri, Helsinki, Kasarmikatu 46-48, 00130 Helsinki
01/02/2026 19:30
Price from - €58.00
Official Participant of Voices Berlin Festival
This first production of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, a White Guard officer who, after a long ordeal of emigration in the early 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland. It is a tale of manipulation and the pursuit of one’s truth, of burning and blotting it out of several generations, of emigration and the wars of the last century, of a great love that loses its meaning when its dedicated audience is a tyrant.
Filipenko’s book draws from historical evidence and interrogation notes recorded after Nesterenko’s arrest by the NKVD before his execution in 1942. The text was adapted for the theater by German playwright Johannes Kirsten and staged by the renowned theater director Maxim Didenko, who left Russia in 2022.
Author of the novel: Sasha Filipenko
Director: Maxim Didenko
Performers:
Maxim Sukhanov
Svetlana Mamresheva
Igor Titov
Set and costume designer: Alexander Barmenkov
Composer: Sergej Newski
Video artist: Oleg Mikhailov
Live-camera operator: Frol Podlesny
Lighting designer: Alexander Kurochkin
Playwright: Johannes Kirsten
General Producer: Svetlana Dolya
Technical Director: Ilya Reizman
Executive Producer: Ilya Kuznetsov
Supported by: NGO Kibbuz and ICF
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
Age restriction: 16+
Language: Performed in Russian with English subtitles
