Professional and Non-Professional Actors as Cultural Agents in the films of Renita and Yuriy Grigoryev

The article investigates the problem of casting professional and non-professional actors as bearers of culture. It also analyses the methods of directing non professionals, of plunging them into the material and creating spiritual links between the performers. The Grigoryevs’ experience of adapting “The Karamazoff Brothers” by F. Dostoyevsky and V. Shukshin’s prose is considered

culture, actor, film analysis, film theory, Russian cinema, 20th century, Dostoyevsky, Shukshin, the Geigoryevs