Ekaterina Volkova

Actress Ekaterina Volkova, known for her leading role in the TV series Voronins, became the heroine of the new episode of Laura Dzhugeliya’s We Have to Discuss program on YouTube and told how she was fired from the Theater and Cinema Center under Nikita Mikhalkov. she, she worked for 10 years.

Nikita Mikhalkov became the artistic director of the Film Actor Theater Studio in 2017, and in 2019 the institution was renamed the Center for Theater and Cinema.

Volkova noted that although Mikhalkov did not fire the actors, this was done on his orders.

Volkova said that the actors were fired by cunning. The actor admitted that he wanted to solve the problem through lawyers, but was told that in any case, he could be fired for absenteeism under the law.

The artist added that he felt more sorry for his colleagues: he has other projects, but not everyone was so lucky. Earlier, several more scandals arose in the name of Nikita Mikhalkov. Director Vitaly Mansky said in an interview with Ksenia Sobchak that “at least 85% of the budget was stolen” at MIFF, whose head was Mikhalkov. In turn, Mikhalkov accused Mansky of slander.

Later, Mikhalkov, who publicly supported Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, said it was “meaningless” to nominate a domestically produced film for an Oscar this year. This decision was condemned by many filmmakers who are members of the Oscar Committee of the Russian Federation. The executives, led by Pavel Chukhrai, the former chairman of the committee, said that this decision was taken without discussion and left the committee to protest.