Voices-Festival: "Cremulator" von Maxim Didenko

This first staged adaptation of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Guard who, after a long emigration at the beginning of the 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland.

It is a story about forgiveness and the pursuit of one's own truth, about its enduring flame and its extinguishing over generations, about emigration and the wars of the last century, about a great love that loses its meaning when its addressee is a tyrant. Filipenko's book is based on historical evidence and interrogation transcripts recorded after Nesterenko's arrest by the NKVD before his execution in 1942. The text was adapted for the theater by the German playwright Johannes Kirsten and staged by the renowned director Maxim Didenko, who left Russia in 2022.