Artists In Exile Series:

 "The Government InspectoR"
Staged by Yury Butusov

Stage Russia HD and Art Seen Films presents its Artists in Exile Series, featuring newly created filmed productions staged and performed by Russia’s most revered theatre artists, who either by choice or dictum, are now plying their trade abroad. This series is created in support of these artists and proudly offer it to cinemas and theatre-lovers worldwide.

"From one of the foremost directors on the contemporary stage"
- Theatre Times

SYNOPSIS: Yury Butusov’s award-winning production of Nikolai Gogol’s “Government Inspector” delves into the dual impossibilities of accepting reality and escaping from it. As with many of Butusov’s stagings, chaos and pathos are seamlessly interwoven, with art presented as both freeing and healing. Written by Mikhail Durnenkov and featuring Konstantin Raikin and Timofey Tribuntsev.