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[:en]CHAGALL-MALEVICH (Alexander Mitta, 2013) Cinema Village 22 East 12th St. between University Pl. & Fifth Ave. Opens Friday, […]

[:en]On the 12th of June at 7.30pm in NYC at Cinema Village the Film where I play the main role "Chagall-Malevich" will be shown! Come!!![:]

[:en]In 1942, Marc Chagall became one of the last Jewish refugees ferried to safety by Varian Frye’s clandestine network. However, to survive National Socialism Chagall would first have to survive Soviet Communism. Initially, the post-revolutionary days were a time of opportunity for artists (and Russian Jews had little reason to mourn the Romanovs), but Chagall was never very astute when it came to the macro political forces in play, unlike his rival Kazimir Malevich. Eventually, this will become a problem for him and his beloved wife Bella.[:]

[:en]1887, the Russian town of Vitebsk is on fire... "ablaze with arson to the Jewish quarter." At this moment, Marc Chagall comes into the world, looking absolutely stillborn but finally gasping for air. "The world was so magically bright, horrifying and beautiful that I started to breathe... and that intolerable beauty burns within me." Twenty years later, Marc is in Paris [...][:]