Mariano Pensotti

Arde brillante en los bosques de la noche / Burning bright in the forest of the night

  • Theatre
With German surtitles /  With English surtitles /  Spanish /  105 min

Three women are the protagonists of “Burning bright in the forest of the night”. A professor teaches seminars on the Russian Revolution at the university and is confronted with the fact that revolutionary thoughts have not played any role in her life for a long time. A revolutionary who was part of the guerrilla struggles in South America for many years returns to her birthplace in Europe, where everyday life has become unfamiliar to her. The journalist of a political television programme celebrates a promotion by taking a trip to the north of Argentina, where descendants of Russian emigrants who had fled the 1917 Revolution work as sex workers for women from the middle class. A cinematic narrative style connects the different stories to one another. How can political ideals be translated into ordinary life today? Which ideas from the Russian Revolution still apply today? What effects have they had on present-day Argentina?

Cast

Text & direction: Mariano Pensotti / With: Patricio Aramburu, Esteban Bigliardi, Inés Efrón, Susana Pampin, Laura López Moyano / Set & costume design: Mariana Tirantte / Music: Diego Vainer / Lighting: Alejandro Le Roux / Direction assistance: Juan Schnitman / Set assistance: Gonzalo Cordoba Estevez / Stage assistance: Malena Juanatey, Tatiana Mladineo / Production: Florencia Wasser - Grupo Marea

Dates

Past
  • Premiere
    Thu 12.1.2017, 19:00 / HAU1
  • Fri 13.1.2017, 21:00 / HAU1
  • Sat 14.1.2017, 19:00 / HAU1
  • Sun 15.1.2017, 17:00 / HAU1
  • Re-run
    Wed 16.5.2018, 20:00 / HAU1
  • Thu 17.5.2018, 20:00 / HAU1

Credits

A commission and co-production by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Production: Grupo Marea (Buenos Aires).

Co-production: Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Maria Matos Teatro Municipal (Lisbon) / House on Fire with the support of the Cultural Programme of the European Union. Collaboration: El Cultural San Martín. Re-run with kind support by the Goethe Institute.

Created in the frame of “Utopian Realities”, a co-production of HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of  “100 Years of Now”, curated by HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

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