The popular Tuvan artist Eduard Ondar, who played the title role in the film “The Secret of Genghis Khan”, received the honorable title “Merited Artist of Republic Sakha (Yakutia)”. The state award was presented to him on May 30 on the stage of the Tuvan Theatre of Music and Drama of P.A.Oyunskiy by the director of the theatre, Anatoliy Nikolaev. The all-Russian premiere of the film took place on March12, 2009. The film will be introduced in the international cinematic festival in Montreal.
The award was presented to the artist during an artistic evening of the extremely talented Tuvan director Aleksei Oorzhak. It was specifically his shows that “tore a window” to recognition of Tuvan theatre beyond the borders of the republic – in Bashkortostan, Tataria, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Belarus, and Turkey.
Aleksei Oorzhak also participated as an actor in the film “The Secret of Genghis Khan”.
On the invitation of Yakut theatre, the Tuvan director is preparing to produce the spectacle “The Alpine Ballad” (after the book of Vasil Bykov), for the occasion of 65th anniversary of the Great Victory.