150th Anniversary of the Birth of Victor Hugo

Meeting at the airport of V. Hugo's great-grandson - French artist Jean Hugo. Among the greeters: I. Ehrenburg, V. I. Pudovkin, Paul Eluard and others. The ceremonial meeting in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. KM Simonov opens the meeting. On the presidium - Academician A.N. Nesmeyanov. Among the speakers: I. G. Erenburg, K. A. Fedin, Nazym Hikmet, A. A. Yablochkina and others. Jubilee session at the Institute of World Literature. A ceremonial meeting at the Hammer and Sickle plant. Among those present: J. Hugo, Paul Eluard and others. The writer and translator T. Ya. Schepkina-Kupernik is working in her office on the translation of V. Hugo's book "Ruy Blaz". Poet and translator P. G. Antokolsky at his desk. The ceremonial meeting at the theater. Yanka Kupala in Minsk, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of V. Hugo; acts I.O. Mosashvili. The ceremonial meeting at the theater. Rustaveli in Tbilisi, dedicated to the memory of V. Hugo. Fragments of the performance of the theater. Vakhtangov "Les Miserables". People's Artist of the RSFSR A. Abrikosov as Jean Vallnsan, Ts. Mansurov as Fantina, N. Generalova as Gavrosh.

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1952