It’s Showtime SIberia

filmplan

2012 – …

From the idea by Péter Kalmár, the script was written by
Tasnádi István

visual concept by Árpád Iványi
orchestration by Zoltán Németh and Kornél Fekete-Kovács

producer: Péter Kalmár

The film adaptation of the operetta is based on a true event: A group of prisoners of war gathered in a Siberian camp during World War I, In the course of the Second World War, a group of soldiers from a camp in Siberia, as an amateur theatre troupe, were forced to perform under difficult conditions. The Queen of the Chards!

Since they had neither music nor libretto available to them in the Siberian POW camp, the the text was written from memory, and the music was written by a Viennese officer from memory and incomplete Russian from a poor piano score. They made the sets, props and costumes themselves, or procured. Of course, the female roles were also played by men.
According to contemporary records, the men who played the female roles were were held in high esteem and celebrated as true prima donnas.
"Dream, dream, sweet dream", the actors sang, and this was what the audience longed for: to believe, for at least two hours, that although Isonzo's half a million of the Monarchy's dead, but 'Beyond the Operencias we shall be happy'!