Ice Age performance of Navka and Burkovo. Tatyana Navka got into an international scandal

On November 26, in Russia on Channel One, within the framework of the Ice Age program, the performance of Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky “Beautiful That Way” based on the Italian film “Life is Beautiful” was shown. Navka and Burkovsky took to the ice in uniforms of concentration camp prisoners and with yellow stars.

The issue caused, to put it mildly, mixed reactions.

There are also more loyal judgments, for example, the opinion of Andrey Konyaev, editor-in-chief of the N + 1 website.

About the hype that arose around the speech of the wife of Putin's press secretary, for example, The Huffington Post. One of the Russian commentators wrote that Navka and Burkovsky should be "sent to the place where such pajamas are given out." In particular, blogger @Lndcalling said that Channel One had gone crazy. In the Daily Mail that the Russian president should force the show's creators to apologize for making a laughing stock of the Holocaust. A note on the scandalous program and The New York Times.

A photo posted by Tatiana Navka (@tatiana_navka) on Nov 26, 2016 at 11:22 am PST

The criticism of his wife and the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov. In an interview with Life, he said: “I don’t think this is a question that concerns the Kremlin. And by virtue of his work, he is limited to commenting somehow, - said Peskov. "I'm proud of my wife - that's all I can say."

Life is Beautiful is an Italian tragicomedy released in 1997, directed by Roberto Benigni. The film tells how, during World War II, a father tries to save his son from the Nazis, convincing him that the horrors taking place are just a game.

Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky's number about the Holocaust was shown in the Ice Age program on Channel One. Famous films were the theme for the competition in this episode of the program for all participants. A couple of Navka and Burkovsky chose for their dance an Oscar-winning film about concentration camp prisoners, a tragicomedy Roberto Benigni "Life is Beautiful"... Together with his trainer Ilya Averbukh, they decided to choose the song Beautiful That Way from this film and appear before the audience in the form of prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp - in striped robes and with a Star of David on their chest.

After the speech, a lot of angry comments and messages appeared on the web and in the press. Some of the viewers, who had not seen the film and did not know its plot, were amazed that the figure skaters in the form of prisoners in a concentration camp were dancing and fooling around. For those who do not know, the plot of that very film is centered on the tragic story of a father and son who were sent to a concentration camp. To save his son from the horrors that occur in the camp, as well as from death, the father presents everything that happens to his child as a fun game.

Negative reviews about the dance of Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky even left some world media outlets, including CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, who did not forget to mention that she is the wife of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

Tatiana Navka herself expressed her surprise at the sharp reaction of the Western press: Probably, people did not watch this wonderful film, which won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and won three Oscars, - the Russian figure skater commented on the attacks in her direction.

Foreign Ministry spokesman spoke sharply about Western critics Maria Zakharova who called them cowardly hypocrites and liars. On her Facebook, Zakharova wrote the following lines: WHERE DO YOU ALL HIDE WHEN MONUMENTS TO THOSE WHO WROWNED WITH THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE? 30 YEARS IN THE BALTIC HUMANIZED THE VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR BY REFUSING CITIZENSHIP - YOU,… WHERE WERE YOU? IT WERE YOU WHO Mocked THE PARADE OF VICTORY IN MOSCOW IN 2015, CALLING IT "A MANIFESTATION OF Militarism." WHEN SHAVE GUYS WITH SWASTIKA AND TORCHES MARCH IN UKRAINE - WHICH ARE YOU TURNING INTO WHICH SIDE? AND WHERE DO YOU FLEE WHEN THE WAFFEN SS LEGIONARY ARRANGED PARADES? ... and concluded: THEN YOU WERE ALL SILENT. YOU CAN ONLY DISCUSS SKATES.

Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky - "Beautiful That Way" video

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The Ice Age star is about a show partner, beloved wife and raising children.

Burkovsky and Navka know how to negotiate and discuss controversial issues. Photo: Maxim LEE

For performance in the second edition of "Ice Age" received the highest points. The couple skated the number without mistakes, Andrey performed complex elements. The jury praised the guys for their technique and artistry.

“I have never had such a strong, tall, athletic and handsome partner,” the Olympic champion said. And here is what Burkovsky himself told about himself.

About the "Ice Age"

The 32-year-old skater feels confident: as a boy, he played hockey in his native Tomsk. And now the actor of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhova, in her free time from rehearsals and filming, plays hockey in the team of stars "Komar".

- Is the adrenaline you get in hockey and Ice Age different?

- Sure. Hockey is a game sport, you fight, you can correct a mistake. In "" you have to skate beautifully, easily and freely. And there is one take for that. You finished the program and - phew ... exhaled. It's such a euphoric state.

- Especially when everything works out.

- Any element can be done 25 times better. Try to sit down lower, keep your hands right. I am learning a little.

- Every day?

- Now in the theater we are preparing the release of the play, so we did not train yesterday. Today Tanya and I have a training session at one o'clock. I arrive at 12.15 and warm up for 45 minutes, work on some elements. It is lucky that in my schedule filming for films starts a little later and I can spend all my free time on the "Ice Age".

- Aren't you afraid of falling or dropping your partner?

- No, I'm a stable person. But in training, I put on knee pads to insure against injury.

- Tatiana Navka won the Ice Age three times. Your couple are looked at as potential leaders from the start. Is it psychologically difficult to match?

- No. You have to perform well for yourself. And the rest is no longer important.

- There are clashes of characters?

- We became friends. Of course, both are hot-tempered, but work is work. If I or Tanya don't like something, then we are not silent, but we say our doubts aloud. Let's say I can say that some element is not pleasant in the room. Or Tanya says, "I'm not sure, but the music doesn't seem to fit." We discuss, agree.

- It can be seen that you are passionate about the process. Maybe in childhood it was worth not to go to hockey, but to figure skating?

- I'm not sure if I would have signed up for figure skating as a child. And now it's interesting to me.

About kids

Andrey is on vacation with his wife Olya, daughter Alisa and son Maxim. Photo: instagram.com

The actor has a 5-year-old son Maxim and a 3-year-old daughter Alisa. Andrey is an excellent father, despite being busy, he does not miss raising children. They have their own family traditions: in childhood, Andrei went to the bathhouse with his father, and now he teaches his son to such trips. Well, the daughter, as often happens, can twist ropes from her father: just hug, say an affectionate word, and dad is ready for anything.

- Who is more like you?

- It is not clear yet. The son looks like me outwardly, there are similar character traits. I can say for sure that children are the greatest happiness. I bring them up with versatile people: we read good books - Pushkin, for example. Of course, while they are small, they often ask to watch cartoons, but my wife and I are trying to develop them in different directions.

- What do you teach?

- Human qualities. I try to raise good people, kind, sympathetic. I teach to say hello to neighbors, to throw garbage in the trash can, to protect the weak ... I bring up the way my parents raised me.

- Do the guys understand that their dad is an actor?

- Yes, Maxim was at the performances, and in the theater backstage. When my son asks to take him to work, then if I can, I take him. He has already acted in films - in the series "The Last of the Magikyan".

- Liked?

- Yes, he is interested, he gets carried away quickly.

- Does Maxim play sports?

- Yes, my son goes to hockey, daughter goes to dances. We gave them to study not so that they won the Olympics, but because the sport of children disciplines and physically strengthens them.

- Do you overload children with activities, do you deprive them of their childhood?

- Everything in moderation. We go to English and other developmental classes. Why not? Children are interested.

- It is difficult to silence two small children, even if dad has a premiere at the theater. How do you restore strength?

- At home I have a rest with children. Of course, they play, shout - dear mom! Well, you can't tell them: "Sit quietly!" If I get very tired, then my wife Olga asks me not to make noise, to let my dad sleep a little longer.

About wife

The actor has been married for eight years. Wife Olga is both best friend and beloved woman. Photo: Personastars.com

Andrei Burkovsky met his Olya on the train. The student went from Tomsk home to Abakan to visit her parents, and he went to the festival of student theaters of pop miniatures. Both had their own personal lives, so they became just best friends. They were friends for six years. And then Andrey realized that Olga is his destiny and the only woman with whom he wants to start a family. We got married eight years ago. At first, Burkovsky was in Moscow on short visits from Tomsk - he performed with the KVN team "MaximuM", and then decided to move permanently. He began to make a living by writing scripts for television programs, acting. Olga moved in after her husband. At first it was difficult - Andrei entered the Moscow Art Theater School, and at this time Olya was already expecting her first child. Despite the fact that Burkovsky's parents have a restaurant business and they are wealthy people, he tried to achieve everything himself. Therefore, I had to work hard.

- You need to feed your family. Do you have to agree to roles in movies, TV shows, to which your soul does not lie?

- You won't earn all the money anyway, so I try to choose movies and TV shows with good quality drama.

- What do you like to watch at your leisure?

- And if you are not relaxing at the screen, then where are you going with your family?

- Differently. We really like to invite friends to our home and arrange apartment houses. In Moscow now there are a lot of places where it is interesting to spend time: you can go to the park or go to restaurants.

- You are called an exemplary family man. Is this a merit of parental education, or did Olya make you an "ideal husband"?

- How without a family? She is the basis of everything. I Monogamous. Thank God, my wife is not an actress. She keeps our family rear well, takes care of children, her husband, who is not always easy. My wife helps, supports me always and in everything, treats my work with understanding.

I, like everyone else: I watch Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Motherland ...

- With two children, the spouse has forgotten about her career. Is this your requirement?

- I don’t think that a wife should stay at home and devote herself to children. It is difficult for a person without self-realization. Children grow up, and I don't mind, of course, if she goes to work.

- Who is your spouse by profession?

- She has a diploma in PR. Olga worked, but when the children were born, she naturally went on maternity leave.

Gopnik Rusty (Andrey Burkovsky) and Bashka (Mikhail Bashkatov) are the heroes of "Give youth!" Photo: Channel STS

- What qualities of your wife do you value the most?

- She is a smart person, so she understands a lot. It is very important. What else? I honestly don't know. I just really love my wife.

- Do you often give in to each other?

- Family is a compromise. Today I conceded, tomorrow she.

- Are you a rugged husband? Do you help your wife with the housework?

- Not always. Olga sometimes asks me to screw something on. I can, of course, sometimes. But I'd rather invite a plumber who will do it professionally.

- But in your work, they say, you are a perfectionist?

- I am demanding of myself, of others. I do not make concessions. I can be unbearable. But you can't look for a compromise in your work - quality will suffer.

Private bussiness

Andrey Burkovsky was born on November 14, 1983 in Tomsk. After school he graduated from the Law Institute of Tomsk State University. As part of the KVN team "MaximuM" he became the champion of the Higher League of KVN. He was the author of texts for the team. Before graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School in 2014, he was admitted to the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov. Sketch actor "", played in the TV series "Kitchen", "The Last of the Magikyan", in the film "Pushkin".

Figure skating has unexpectedly become a new stumbling block and cause for high-profile disputes between Russia and the West. And we are not talking about major sporting events, but about one issue from the television project "Ice Age".

November 26, 2016 in the next episode of the "Ice Age" program steam Tatiana Navka - Andrey Burkovsky presented the number "Beautiful That Way", in which the participants appear as Jewish prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The number received the highest points from the judges of the project.

In the West, this issue attracted unexpected press attention. The reason, first of all, was the partner: Tatyana Navka, the Olympic champion in sports ice dancing, is the wife press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov.

In the Western media, the issue was considered "tasteless" and admitting an incorrect tone in relation to the victims of the Holocaust.

"Have sunk to such lows for the sake of glory"

“The wife of Vladimir Putin’s press secretary has been criticized for dancing on ice about the Holocaust,” - such is the headline given by Time.

"Tatyana Navka, the wife of Putin's aide, drew criticism with her performance on ice on the Holocaust," writes The Huffington Post.

CNN TV channel cited the words Jeremy Jones, Director of Foreign Relations, Australian Council for Israel:"The frivolity that led to the decision to stage this number is maddening ... Once they are forgotten as skaters, they will be remembered as people who have sunk to such lows for the sake of fame."

The Russia Today TV channel published a commentary by the chief rabbi of Moscow, chairman of the Council of Rabbis of Europe, head of the rabbinical court in the CIS and Baltic countries Pinchas Goldschmidt:“I would like to believe that the dance directors wanted to convey the will to live and the best hopes of the concentration camp prisoners. Many people liked it, but many touched the dance. Because the Holocaust and everything connected with it is too big a wound. It will take a long time to heal. There are almost no Jewish families in which none of their ancestors would have suffered from Nazism, would not have worn yellow stars, as on the costumes of figure skaters. It was necessary to take care of the feelings of the victims and their families. Ask for advice. Probably, the intentions were good, but each nation has its own pain, and you need to try not to hurt the quick. I would not like to see anti-Semitism here. "

Some Russian users of social networks also reacted quite emotionally, among which, however, there were quite a few Ukrainian ones:

"Do they really think that everything is normal?"

"Ernst in the furnace"

"In Germany, they would definitely give a term"

“It's time to ask Santa Claus for a fence with Mordor. I don't see any more options "

"You can only discuss skates"

Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted: “I don’t think this is a question that somehow concerns the Kremlin, and because of my work I am significantly limited in my ability to comment on this. I am proud of my wife. That's all I can say. "

The reaction was extremely emotional. the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova. On her Facebook page, she wrote: “I would call it, but they will be banned ....

Haaretz, the Daily Mail, the Huffington Post and dozens of others have all written about the Holocaust-themed dance piece performed by Tatyana Navka.

They didn't like the room! The image of the prisoners of Auschwitz, you see, is not as embodied on the ice as it should be. Defenders of Tolerance? Nothing like this! Hypocrites and liars. Moreover, cowardly hypocrites and liars, fulfilling a political order.

Where are you all hiding when monuments to those who fought the Holocaust are being demolished in Europe? For 30 years in the Baltics they humiliated veterans of the Second World War, denying citizenship - you, ..., where were you? It was you who mocked the victory parade in Moscow in 2015, calling it “a manifestation of militarism”. And when in Ukraine shaven guys with a swastika and torches are marching, which way do you turn away? And where do you scatter when the Waffen-SS legionnaires are parading? And when in Poland officials announced that Auschwitz was liberated by the Ukrainians, and not by the Soviet troops, thereby insulting the memory of soldiers of many nationalities, why did you not point out to them the inadmissibility of politicizing the immortal feat?

Then you were all silent. You can only discuss skates. "

What really happened

Tatiana Navka herself said in an interview with Life: “This is not the first time that the theme of war has been raised in our project; it is not the first time that I skate a performance in the clothes of concentration camp prisoners. This is our creativity, and before it somehow did not cause any reaction in the world. This means that we make people think. I hope that many people simply have not seen this film, and when they do, they will see our wonderful number with different eyes, ”she added.

The idea of ​​the number shown by Navka and Burkovsky belonged to Ilya Averbukh, vice-champion of the Olympics and world champion in ice dancing, and now a successful producer of ice shows.

In the Ice Age project, he acts as a trainer and producer.

The number represents a reimagining of the film Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful, which in 1998 won the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival and two Oscars.

According to the plot of the film, the Italian Guido, a Jew by nationality, finds himself in a concentration camp with his son. Trying to protect the child from the horrors, Guido explains to his son that everything that happens around is a game. A boy in it needs to score 1000 points to get the main prize: a tank. Points are given with the unconditional observance of a number of rules: it is forbidden to appear in front of the soldiers, cry, complain and ask for food. The child trusts his dad, despite death, pain and blood around him.

At the end of the film, the prisoners are freed, the boy is reunited with his mother, but his father is killed by the Nazi.

For the number of Navka and Burkovsky, the music was taken from the film "Life is Beautiful". As in the film, the main character dies in the room: machine gun fires are heard, and he disappears into the darkness.

"90% of the speakers did not see the number at all"

Ilya Averbukh reacted very harshly to the criticism of the number: “90% of the speakers did not see the number at all, they do not understand what was being discussed. For such people, I am ready to explain once again: the theme of the program was "world cinema", the number was staged entirely based on the great film "Life is Beautiful" directed by Roberto Benigni, which received three Oscars. The family ends up in a concentration camp, where, in order to save their child, they play out a story throughout the film that it's all just a big game. For those who did not watch the movie, specially for 15 seconds a text sounded, a direct quote from the film, when Tanya and Andrei stood really with faces full of sorrow, where it was said: "Son, this is just a game." It was for him that this number was played, in which there was everything: a dramatic story, and a struggle, and ridicule, and the severity of the loss when Andrei dies, leaving his family. This is an exceptional movie quote. An absolutely normal reaction associated with the fact that you really want to bite. There is a direct road: Navka - Peskov - Putin. That's all. A photograph was captured showing people in concentration camp prisoners' clothes smiling. Without thinking about anything, we can just as well snatch a frame from the movie "The Great Dictator" Charlie Chaplin, where he portrays Hitler, this level is exactly the same, just to yap. "

Borukh Gorin, Head of the Public Relations Department of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia in an interview with Interfax he said: “The turn that the discussion of this issue took - an attempt to condemn it from ideological or moral positions - seems to me completely inappropriate, since the reference to the Holocaust theme as such, especially with artistic comprehension, when performers associate themselves with victims , worthy of all respect and gratitude ... All the condemning reactions that we have witnessed are not just exaggerated, but catastrophically exaggerated ... To talk in 2016 about whether it is worth creating different kinds of works on the Holocaust is all the same, what to argue about whether the wind is needed. This is, and this is part of the cultural space. "

Daily Mail "replaced" Navka Totmyanina

And the last thing. The British newspaper Daily Mail, which considered the smiles on the faces of Navka and Burkovsky inadmissible, because they "do not fit well with the monstrous theme" of the Holocaust, managed to make a gross mistake in the material. In the material on the website, under the photograph with the explanation "Peskov's wife is to the right of Putin", there was a photograph in which not Tatiana Navka is standing next to the president, but Tatiana Totmianina. She is also a figure skater, also an Olympic champion, but not Dmitry Peskov's wife, but figure skater Alexei Yagudin... It is clear that the Daily Mail knows little about Russian beauties and Olympic champions. But maybe then you shouldn't talk about what you don't understand?

Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky provoked a loud scandal with the number "Beautiful That Way" to the music from the movie "Life is Beautiful".

The last episode of the program "Ice Age" ended in a scandal because of the number "Beautiful That Way" performed by Andrey Burkovsky.

The topic of the program was world cinema, and Navka and Burkovsky skated a number based on the film "Life is Beautiful". Recall that according to the plot of the picture, parents who were in a concentration camp are trying to convince a child that everything that happens is not real, but only a game, so they smile, clown around a little and in every possible way create an atmosphere of ease and fun.

Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky - Beautiful That Way. ice Age

The number received a mixed reaction from viewers. Netizens who clearly did not watch the film and did not want to understand the situation, responded very harshly to Navka and Burkovsky.

The scandal was noticed even by Western publications. The British newspaper Daily Mail published reviews of popular bloggers, sharply condemning the issue, and even an appeal that the Russian president should force the creators of the show to apologize for "making a laughing stock of the Holocaust."

The American edition of The Huffington Post and the Israeli Haaretz did not stand aside either.

In defense of Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky, coach Ilya Averbukh spoke, who, by the way, put this number.

"I did a lot of numbers on the military and Jewish theme, of absolutely different characters. In the previous program we had an amazing number of Yekaterina Barnabas - an Armenian lullaby, also about tragic events. But no one paid attention, apparently because it was not Tatiana Navka who performed it. . And this is the whole answer, "- said Averbukh.

Ilya shamed the Daily Mail for the fact that a serious, respected publication published absolutely unverified information. He briefly explained the topic of the program and recounted the meaning of the film "Life is Beautiful", which was presented on the ice by Navka and Burkovsky.

“I have the feeling that people have not watched either the number or the film. They saw photos of smiling people in robes and made some ridiculous conclusions - from bad taste, illiteracy, ignorance. Perhaps only such words come to mind when you get this kind of reaction. All this hype is an indicator of modern madness. I would call it "delirium tremens" and insanity, "- said Averbukh. Tatiana Navka herself was delighted with the rental. "Be sure to look! One of my favorite numbers! Based on one of my favorite films" Life is Beautiful "! Show this film to your children, be sure. Our children should know and remember that terrible time, which I hope God will give, they will never will find out! " - wrote the skater in social networks.