Willem Dafoe’s monologue on gaps between teeth in a new film by Grigory Dobrygin

MOSCOW. The premiere of the short film Grigory Dobrygin with Willem Dafoe in the title role.

The student theater festival with the prophetic name “Your Chance” turned out to be the springboard from which Grigory Dobrygin’s world fame began. And the assistant Aleksey Popogrebsky who noticed him there - a fairy godmother who sent "to the ball" - the set of the film "How I Spent This Summer" - the one who deserves it. The real film career of Dobrygin began precisely with her, and not with the Black Lightning that preceded her. "Silver Bear", received for the arthouse thriller, became a pass to the big European cinema. It was on him that a consciously, unconsciously bet was made, and not on one-sided Hollywood using our stars.

Thanks to Berlin, work took place in A Most Wanted Man of the Dutchman Anton Corbijn, where Dobrygin was not lost amid such "monsters" as Philip Seymour Hoffman and Willem Dafoe) After - filming with the British Kevin Macdonald (Kevin Macdonald) in the "Black Sea" (Black Sea) with Jude Law (Jude Law) and Konstantin Khabensky. Reviews of John le Carré, whose book formed the basis of the script A Most Wanted Man, about the work of Dobrygin were the most enthusiastic. Which was the best recommendation for an invitation to a new film on le Carré - Our Kind of Traitor Susanna White (Susanna White). Filming with the owner of Golden Bear Semih Kaplanoglu, working with German directors, inviting Farrell Williams to the advertising campaign of the famous brand.

The director’s diploma also doesn’t gather dust on the shelf. The performance of the sold-out performance “Lakeiskaya” based on the play by Gogol at the Mayakovsky Theater. Filming of short films, very positively perceived by the audience and receiving prizes at film festivals: “Treason” and “Verpaskungen”. In the second, without the slightest hesitation, the superclaimed Sergey Makovetsky starred. In the same way, without hesitation, he agreed to shoot in the third short meter of Dobrygin’s Mind The Gap (Slit) by Willem Dafoe. With the initiative on cooperation with Dobrygin, he came out even during the filming of Corbin. The prospects of working with Philip Seymour Hoffman were only hindered by his untimely death.

The charming two-minute monologue of a Hollywood star about the advantages that give him gaps between his teeth, causes unexpected associations. The words “cracks are openness, new opportunities, a source of pleasure” are no longer perceived as a conversation about the structure of the jaw, but about freedom, the right to be different from everyone else.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru