Independent show hosted by the National Theatre of Bucharest. The organiser is exclusively liable for the quality and content of this event!

Actors on the play, “We have come to fall in love with the story of Vitek and Helea, and we act, live and cry for them.”

“To all those who loved and lost.”

“Warsaw Melody” is a love story that shows us that love can transcend destiny and that the tragedy of humanity comes from the inability to escape from the ruins.

Love begins to blossom in the hostile terrain of the Soviet Union when fate brings together Viktor, a young Russian viticulture student, and Helena, a Polish girl studying at the Conservatory. Two young people who lived through the war on separate fronts meet at a concert in the winter of 1946 in Moscow.

They love each other playfully, fearfully, longingly, humorously and without limits. But in Stalin's brutal Stalin-controlled empire their love is simply not allowed to exist. On February 15, 1947, Russia bans marriages with foreigners.

Their relationship is destroyed by something beyond their control, and the two are forced to make a decision - love or duty?

And time resumes its relentless course, each with his own life, each with his own path.

Like wine, their love is put on the back burner, for time gives it its bouquet. Until, ten years later, destiny brings them together again for one last reunion.

Leonid Zorin's timeless story of the fragility and strength of love in a loveless land is an outpouring of frustration, hope and memories. Characterized by Chekhov-like psychological realism, the story, sadly still relevant today, shows how war and its aftermath can affect even the lives of two young people whose only mistake was to be born in different countries.

Performance produce by Atelierul ReAct

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu