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researching the future of the Serbian scene (2): choosing between a state-funded
academies and a private one Interview:
Vladan Nikolić, a director In
Memoriam: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) |  WAVE magazine researching the future of Serbian scene (2): In
Memoriam: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) |
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The
artists should possess a theoretical and academic knowledge
of acting, but also an amount of working knowledge, as well as the tricks learnt
at seminars and creative workshops. Some students believe that the only difference
between a state-funded and 
a
private academy is that the latter is more expensive, but they are certain the
hard work will be worthwhile. Prejudice towards private arts academies remain
common, especially among actors who graduated from a state-funded arts academy...
A
serious cinematography expert whose films were being shown from New York, San
Francisco, Oldenburg, via Chicago, Barcelona, Geneva, Moscow, to Frankfurt, Venice
and Belgrade, reveals how, following his dreams, he went to America with 500 dollars
in his pocket, not giving up, because his wife Dušica helped him in his realizations;
how he came into contact with powerful producer Jim Stark, and how he had no idea
that during a reception he spoke to Penelope Cruz for an hour, and that during
the shooting of "Love" a man was in charge of waking Sergej Trifunović
up... 
The
author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system was lauded
as a moral and spiritual leader as well as one of the greatestwriters of his time.
His monumental work the Gulag Archipelago, written in secrecy in the Soviet Union
and published in Paris in three volumes between 1973 and 1978, is the definitive
work on Stalin's camps, where tens of millions perished. His major works, including
The First Circle and Cancer Ward, brought him global admiration and the 1970 Nobel
prize for literature...