The Burnt Theatre [SEP] director
The Burnt Theatre
The Burnt Theatre, or "Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé", is a 2005 French-Cambodian docudrama directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practise their art in the burned-out shell of Cambodia's former national theatre, the Preah Suramarit National Theatre in Phnom Penh.
"The Burnt Theatre" premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival as an
Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, (; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow.
Internationally, Menshikov is the best known for his roles in the films by Nikita Mikhalkov "Burnt by the Sun" (1994), "The Barber of Siberia" (1998), "Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus" (2010) and "Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel" (2011),