Directing
Oleg Korvyakov
Born — Died
1938-01-01 — 2019-07-10
Known for
Directing
Credits
15 titles
Known for
The play is a compositional study based on a story by Boris Vakhtin. The desire to introduce the audience to the poetic world of Vakhtin's prose and to find an atmosphere reminiscent of the author led the creators to use the form of studies, stage sketches that are extremely conventional and open to the audience's perception. The search for intonation and the fine line between conventionality and authenticity of experience were central to this work.
One Absolutely Happy Village
2003
NRBased on the play "The Last Victim" by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky.
All In
2004
A television adaptation of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre's production of A.N. Ostrovsky's play. Recorded in 2004. The plot revolves around a promissory note scam and an attempt to woo a wealthier husband. This production, while respectful of the classic, reveals new facets of the play—Chekhov's impressionism, the poetry of a vanishing world, and the Russian estate.
Wolves and Sheep
2004
A production by the Russian Academic Youth Theater based on Thornton Wilder's play of the same name. Life, love, and death are the three components of this performance. The action begins on May 7, 1901, in a small American town. Two families, the Gibbs and the Webb, live next door to each other. Their children attend school, and their entire lives are spent in full view of each other.
Our Town
1999
Six characters are constantly navigating extremely complex lyrical relationships. He loves her, but he also loves another; she, loving him, leaves him for another man, who lives with a third woman but actually loves her...
Tanya-Tanya
2001
NRA parable about the right of an individual to freedom, the cost of that freedom, and the choice of one's own path.
Peer Gynt
2012
Behind the camera
The play is a compositional study based on a story by Boris Vakhtin. The desire to introduce the audience to the poetic world of Vakhtin's prose and to find an atmosphere reminiscent of the author led the creators to use the form of studies, stage sketches that are extremely conventional and open to the audience's perception. The search for intonation and the fine line between conventionality and authenticity of experience were central to this work.
One Absolutely Happy Village
2003
NRBased on the play "The Last Victim" by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky.
All In
2004
A television adaptation of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre's production of A.N. Ostrovsky's play. Recorded in 2004. The plot revolves around a promissory note scam and an attempt to woo a wealthier husband. This production, while respectful of the classic, reveals new facets of the play—Chekhov's impressionism, the poetry of a vanishing world, and the Russian estate.
Wolves and Sheep
2004
A production by the Russian Academic Youth Theater based on Thornton Wilder's play of the same name. Life, love, and death are the three components of this performance. The action begins on May 7, 1901, in a small American town. Two families, the Gibbs and the Webb, live next door to each other. Their children attend school, and their entire lives are spent in full view of each other.
Our Town
1999
Six characters are constantly navigating extremely complex lyrical relationships. He loves her, but he also loves another; she, loving him, leaves him for another man, who lives with a third woman but actually loves her...
Tanya-Tanya
2001
NRA parable about the right of an individual to freedom, the cost of that freedom, and the choice of one's own path.
Peer Gynt
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Duck Hunting
2006
NRThe story of the adventures of a young man – overly ambitious and cynical, who wanted to make a career but ended up failing.
The Wise Man
2004
A tragicomedy teleplay based on the drama of the same name by Alexander Pushkin from the "Little Tragedies" series. The original interpretation of the Baron, brilliantly portrayed by People's Artist of the USSR Georgy Menglet, was widely praised by theater critics and the press. For this role, Georgy Menglet received the "Russia's First Love" award in the category "For Fidelity to Pushkin's Words."
The Miserly Knight
1999
A television play based on the play by Pavel Kohout (translated by Mikhail Rudnitsky). Based on a production by the Moscow Yermolova Theatre. The owner of a house kept a man hiding from the Nazis in his basement for 40 years, ever since the war. He simply cut his former friend and rival off from his life, continuing to play out a war that never ends.
Stalemate, or the Game of Kings
2000
NRTV version of stage play "California Suite" by Neil Simon, performed in Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre.
California Suite
2007
NRTelevision version of the solo performance by the Saint Petersburg Academic Theatre named after Lensovet. The play features two main characters: a boy, Oscar, who is terminally ill, and the Pink Lady, one of the caregivers dressed in pink, who looks after sick children. The Pink Lady, or as Oscar calls her, Pink Mama, offers the boy a game — every day he "lives" 10 years of his life. In the 10 days remaining before the boy's death, his entire life unfolds: from childhood, youth, and marriage, to old age and death. Additionally, on the Pink Lady's advice, Oscar turns to God and writes Him letters.
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2007
A visiting German entrepreneur, Hugo Pectoralis, discovers the secrets of the Russian character and the absurdities of Russian life. This proves to be precisely the case when calculation, confronted with naive stupidity, proves powerless against it. As usual, three intellectuals at a table, whether today or in Leskov's time, signify the same thing: an eternal and never-ending debate about the mysteries of the Russian soul and the twists and turns of the national character.
Iron Will
1998
NRAbout the hapless bridegroom Podkolesin, who escaped from the bride through the window, and the picky bride Agafya Tikhonovna, who can not choose the right one, Mark Zakharov saw the story of a man who wants to change something in his life, but is not capable of doing anything.
Marriage
2007
NRThe play was directed by Mark Zakharov and is based on the play "Brother Chichikov," inspired by N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls." The performance intertwines the adventures of Chichikov with the phantasmagoric occurrences involving him and Pannochka.
Mystification
2005
