Orlean. Arabov Yu.N.

Yuri Arabov - Soviet and Russian screenwriters, poet and prose writer. Permanent co -author of Alexander Sokurov, author of scripts for films by Kirill Serebrennikov and Andrei Khrzhanovsky. The representative of the direction of metaphysical and metaphorical realism. Laureate of many cinema and literary awards. In 2015, according to the scenario of Yuri Arabov, Andrei Proshkin’s film “Orlean” was released with Viktor Sukhorukov, Elena Lyadova and the soloist of the Kurara group Oleg Yagodin.

the action of the novel “Orlean” unfolds in a small Russian town located in Kulundinsky Steppes on the border with Kazakhstan. The usual life of the inhabitants of Orleans (doctor, policeman, hairdressers) is violated with the advent of the mysterious “executor” on the outskirts of the city, which begins to get acquainted with the inhabitants, distribute their business cards to them and scare them with retribution for sins. Along with this, a stray circus Shapito begins near the hill...

Yuri Arav did not invent Orleans, but wrote it off from the Russian city existing in the same Kulundinsky Stepi, which is why the local text and the characters of the novel look surprisingly accurately. At the same time, Arabs skillfully combines realistic prose with absurd lines and metaphors, thus examining the socio-historical aspects of life in the Russian province, and deeply personal topics of conscience, values ​​and choice of life path.