on Saturday, July 18, on the youtube channel of Ramtha – the play of Alexei Borodin’s “Democracy” – a spy drama based on the play by English playwright Michael frane.
“Play “Democracy” continues the important conversation that we have forgotten how to listen, hear and respect each other. We’re not accustomed to dialogue, hence the endless vicious circle of the same problems, the inability to correct the same mistakes,” says the Director, artistic Director ramta Alexey Borodin.
His performance – “spy” scandal that erupted in the spring of 1974, the year in West Germany, which was Willy Brandt as Chancellor of the Bundestag. It turned out that his personal assistant Gunter Guillaume, an agent of the Ministry of security of the GDR, the eyes and ears of the all-powerful secret police Stasi in the highest political circles in Bonn.
the Main role of the great Chancellor and a talented spy, in the play played Ilya Isaev and Peter Krasilov.
Interesting documentary details this history has led Michael Frayn in the PostScript to the British edition of the play (translated by Zoe Anderson):
“my Share of the author’s fiction more than just the description of that specific role that he played günter Guillaume. However, and I am also quite closely stuck to the main canvas of real events. Guillaume appears in many of the photos Brandt is standing near him, talking a few steps behind him, respectfully folding his hands behind his back: dull, good-natured and stout man in horn-rimmed glasses and with a polite smile. He became famous for his unfailing ability to work overtime and the same unfailing sense of humor. Many journalists accredited to the Federal Chancellery, liked his easy-going sociability, but not Brandt, which he seemed slimy. In a sense, Guillaume was a sort of pale reflection of Brandt, with a similar taste for the good life and the same keen interest in the female sex. A brilliant journalist Stern by Wiebke Bruns, one of those women that Brandt was allegedly carried away, he noticed that Guillaume was “nothing… a Servant – not a personality but a part of the furniture, like the chair in the room”…
As the referent Brandt, Guillaume worked very hard. His working day was over only when he laid the last official paper on the night table, Brandt, and a new day had begun that early in the morning he took them with notes Brandt made a green pencil. Their few hours of free time he spent mainly in that copied or photographed documents for my second employer. His home life was dull. By Wiebke Bruns really captured the anonymity of the apartment where he lived with his wife christelle, noticing that the apartment was decorated with such flowers in pots that people bring as gifts, “no one likes them, but no one throws”. Kristel (according to Bruns, a few loud, sharp-tongued and not particularly attractive) was also a scout. For their employers it was the leading agent for as long as the bill has not received such an unexpected promotion in the Federal Chancellery. Their marriage was on the verge of collapse. The only joys Guillaume was meeting for lunch or dinner with a curator, an indefinite number of extramarital Affairs, his teenage son Pierre and his big secret, which he cherished.
As for Brandt, he was obviously harder than it seemed. It was hiding still other Giomi, in addition to those two, which both played their roles in the Federal Chancellery. When the summer after his arrest he finally appeared before the court, many journalists noticed, he changed his manners and appearance. The magazine Der Spiegel, the view was expressed that all this time he was underestimated: this Guillaume was clearly endowed with “insight, energy and will power”. He radiated, wrote the correspondent, “amazingly blatant and intense heat, which explains his success with women”. Much later, after his release from prison and return to the GDR, he changed again. Watching his long television interview it is difficult to establish any connection between the little man-a fat man from Bonn and thin, bearded man whose cautious dryness and sharp tongue gave him rather a high-ranking bureaucrat in retirement than diligent hard worker…”
P. S.
the Performance of Alexey Borodin’s “Democracy” will be available for viewing on July 18 from 19.00, on the day Ramtha.
