Jeden den velkokněžny (útržek ruský) (E03)

This is an incomparable poem of irony. Four years before the death of Catherine I, the future Catherine II did not have it easy. Prior knowledge of at least one film biography of Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst is very helpful for context; the viewer (and the reader) will then have a much better time with the paradoxes and parabolas of all those eye-catching allusions and the seemingly unfinished dialogues that end so clearly and directly with a shortcut on the outside staircase. Naturally, I can recommend the classic version with Marlene Dietrich (1934) or the TV version with Julia Ormond (1991). "Are there rats here?" "There are rats in every wooden house." "This is a stone house." "Well, you see, there are rats here too. (23.08.2011)