“Plaza of Victory 2006”

05.05.2006

Press releaseThis year the project will homage a heroic fight of the Belarusian people with the fascism and building new peaceful life. A wonderful and blooming apple garden will be created on the Plaza on May 9.


Press release



This year the project will homage a heroic fight of the Belarusian people with the fascism and building new peaceful life. A wonderful and blooming apple garden will be created on the Plaza on May 9. It will symbolize a bloom of peaceful life and the joy of post-war years. Original decorative elements, including illuminated apple branches, will be used to simulate a real garden. The project will take the shape of a theatrical cinema concert under the motto “Our Memory, Our Cinema, Our Songs”. The producers watched about 100 war movies and selected 30 songs from them. The music director of the project, the head of the Presidential Orchestra Viktor Babarikin and sound supervisor Valery Grebenko did their utmost to conserve the joyful atmosphere of those years in their project.
The concert will feature the Presidential Orchestra of Belarus and such popular performers as Anatoly Yarmolenko, Polina Smolova, Inna Afanasieva, Alexander Solodukha, Vladimir Provalinsky, vocal band “Chisty Golos”, bands “Beseda” and “Yavor”. True letters of the soldiers, written in the last days of the war” will be used in the dramatic staging of the show.
The author and director of the project is Nadezhda Gorkunova, Konstantin Kornienko is photography director, Valry Grebenko is sound supervisor, Sergey Kotrankov is art director, Viktor Babrikin is music director.
"We keep on commemorating the victims of the war. On this day we would like to spark off positive emotions in people and plunge them into those difficult and yet happy post-war years. And if they give way to tears let it be the tears of joy. I hope that this project will be a nice ending to the trilogy “Plaza of Victory”, pointed out Nadezhda Gorkunova.
The project "Plaza of Victory“ will be aired by the First National TV Channel at 21:00 LT May 9.