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Olympics Opening Ceremony Offers Fanfare for a Reinvented Russia
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The show "Dreams About Russia," put together by Konstantin Ernst, director of Channel One, Russia' largest state owned television network. His emphasis on classical music and scenes from literature including Tolstoy, Gogol and ancient fairy tales mixed with a girl duo t.A.T.u for the preshow with the song "Not Gonna Get Us." Pulling it all together was Lisa Temnikov, a 11 year old daughter of two taxi drivers from Krasnodar in the Sochi region, who won the part in a casting call. She played Lyubov, which means love, and led the journey across centuries of Russia's past with domes of St. Basil's Cathedral seen in the background. As much a celebration of Russia's past as a break from decades of stifling of individuality under communism.
11 year old Liza Temnikov of Krasnodar, as the connecting element for the show "Dreams about Russia" at the opening ceremonies 2014 Sochi Olympics
02/07/2014
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70 years of communism and 50 years of Cold War, wars and other disasters had distorted Russia's story giving Ernst a challenging task of putting together the Russian narrative from the period of modernization since Peter the Great. Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and opera, are woven in to tell the story of Russia with a Russian child clad in white bringing all the scenes together.
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