Under House Arrest by Yevgeny Kharitonov

Yevgeny Kharitonov led the pantomime studio of the Moskovorechye Workers’ Club, a recreation center in Moscow, and did choreography for the rock band “Last Chance”.

After graduation, Kharitonov wrote and directed the play “The Enchanted Island”, which was performed at Moscow’s Mimics and Gesture Theater with roles performed by deaf-mute actors. After a brief acting career, he earned his graduate degree in filmmaking with the presentation of his thesis on the art of pantomime in the education of an actor. Kharitonov graduated from the acting department of Moscow’s Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Kharitonov described in his work the feelings that people of non-traditional orientation experienced, a subject that the government saw as taboo. In his literature, he was a chronicler of the LBGTQ culture of the Soviet period in the 1970s. Yevgeny Kharitonov, Under House Arrest, 1997īorn in Novosibirsk in June of 1941, Yevgeny Kharitonov was a Russian poet, writer, playwright and theatrical director.

And everyone whom you loved and everyone who loved you, they all think of you at that moment, wherever they maybe on earth, or under the earth. All the vibrations from the best moments of your life, from all your impossible youth, come together in one mind-blowing instant, like the moment of your first love, like the hope of new love, like just before your first trip to Moscow, like all sorts of moments in your life and it all comes together in a single minute, and it is more than you can bear, and your heart bursts, and you die. Suddenly, after all your illnesses, you feel so improbably, so impossibly much better, that it is more than a man can take. I know what happens at the moment of death. Photographers Unknown, All the Vibrations from the Best Moments of Your Life

Under House Arrest by Yevgeny Kharitonov