Crazy General or Knight of the Red

The film is dedicated to the memory of Major General of the Armed Forces of the USSR, member of the dissident movement, human rights activist, founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Pyotr Grigrievich Grigorenko (1907 - 1987). First part. Winter, wind, snow-covered coast of the Azov Sea, waves roll onto the coast. A man barely walks along the shore, snow drifts. Zaporozhye region, late autumn, Sea of Azov. Pigeons peck at seeds on the ground. A field prepared for winter. Ducks on a village street. The man picks up a bucket of water from the well. Houses on a village street. Photos of General P.G. Grigorenko. An elderly woman, leaning on a stick, is baptized at the church. The man washes the window in the apartment. Lattice on the window of a psychiatric hospital. Spontaneous food market on the street of one of the cities of Ukraine. Sculpture of V.I. Lenin with traces of birds on the head and shoulder. A woman protests on the street against the actions of the OVIR officers who do not let her out of the country. Live fish in a basket, fish open their mouths. Bird Market. The priest looks at the camera, turns away. The saleswoman is counting the money on the table in a container, a scale and a bottle of vodka are nearby. Street musicians are playing in the street. Biologist Elena Kosterina, a member of the human rights movement, talks about P.G. Grigorenko's painful reaction to the deprivation of his Soviet citizenship. Tatiana Velikanova, a member of the human rights movement, a prisoner of high security camps, speaks about the departure of P.G. Grigorenkov to the United States. Photo with the image of the gravestone “GENERAL PETRO GRIGORENKO 10.16.107 - 2.21.1987. MAJOR GENERAL PETRO GRIGORENKO ". A retired colonel, the son of General Grigorenko Anatoly, says that for his father, the loss of his homeland was tantamount to death. B / w c / t: USA, 1980s, views of New York; George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, a ship sails under the bridge; cars are driving along the road. The second part of. Icon of the Virgin and Child. Installation of the cross on the dome of the church. A man strengthens the letters "CHRIST IS RISEN" over the entrance to the temple. Lighting for Easter cakes, square meters - faces of children. Easter procession around the church. Icon of the Savior. Tatyana Velikanova talks about how peasants became members of the Komsomol, blew up churches, how P. Grigorenko took part in this, then switched to other positions, about the tragedy of a generation. The writer, poet Zinaida Mirkina talks about the destruction of churches, about the tragedy of P. Grigorenko, about his repentance for what he had done. Philologist, writer, prisoner of the Stalinist camps Grigory Pomerants talks about Pyotr Grigorenko. Entrance to the building of the Frunze Military Academy. General view of the building of the academy. A man takes an elevator with a transparent door in the academy building. The teacher of the academy, Colonel A.Ya. Vayner, talks about the work of P. Grigorenko at the academy, that he introduced the basics of military cybernetics, about his lectures. The students of the academy are engaged in drawing up maps at the tables in the office. Winter, Moscow, a group of young people is walking from the building of the main building of Moscow State University. Students leave the building. The interiors of the main building, busts of scientists, writers in the lobby. Assembly hall in the main building, a panorama of the seats, stage. B / w c / t, b / m shooting, 1919-1920s, explosions on the battlefield; military echelons travel by rail; airplanes are flying, bombs are dropped; Red Army cavalrymen are racing; Red Army men from the food detachment dismantle the entrance to the barn in one of the village courtyards, carry out the grain; Red Army soldiers are digging up the grain hidden in the ground, a piglet runs out of the barn, a woman with small children is standing nearby; carts with people sitting on them are driving along a rural street, peasants waving after them; a man cuts the cross from the dome of the church, the cross falls, breaks, a flock of birds takes off from the tree; Moscow, 1946-53, a group of women applauds, the NDP at the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR IV Stalin, from the stage shaking hands outstretched to him; 1945-46, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M. I. Kalinin presents the award to the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR N.S. Khrushchev, those present applaud; 1958-1964, a man from Central Asia presents the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N.S. Khrushchev, standing in the presidium, a lamb to the applause of those present. The third part. Winter landscape - trees on the shore of the Sea of Azov, wind, waves roll onto the shore, snow, clouds in the sky. Winter, Moscow, traffic on the Garden Ring, the building of the Obraztsov Academic Central Puppet Theater, an underground passage near the theater, passers-by are walking. Blizzard, bus stop at the theater. The man reads the announcements on the board. The man attaches the announcement to the post. A crow sits on a tree branch. Plate "ALL-UNION SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GENERAL AND JUDICIAL PSYCHIATRY IM. V.P.SERBSKY ". The gate opens, a view of the courtyard of the institute. The paddy wagon drives into the courtyard of the institute. The policeman is walking around the yard. A man in a white coat opens the cell doors. Institute corridors, staff room. Views from the train window - garden houses in winter, villages. The windows are behind the barbed wire. Church bells in the haze. Icon of the Virgin and Child. Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square, a crow on the roof, military men on guard at the entrance, cleaning ladies wash the steps with brushes. Change of soldiers of the Guard of Honor. The fourth part Panorama of the room - books, icons on the shelves. The men in the room talk about the attitude to the faith of General P. Grigorenko. Colonel A. Weiner talks about faith. Park bench, snow, swing, flock of sparrows. The woman in the room talks about the general being the knight of all the "redheads", about his struggle against the repressions of the 1930s. A Crimean Tatar woman talks about how they were deported from Crimea to Uzbekistan. A young man, a Crimean Tatar, talks about how his ancestors were evicted from the Crimea to Central Asia. B / w c / t: Czechoslovakia, Prague, 1968, the entry of Soviet troops, young people in the streets protesting, the inhabitants of Prague stop tanks, a burning tank, Soviet soldiers extinguish the tank; Moscow, late 1970s - 1982, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU M.A.Suslov presents a medal to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU L.I.Brezhnev, they kiss, those present applaud; 1976-1980, military parade on Red Square on November 7, L.I.Brezhnev, D.F. Ustinov, A.P. Kirilenko, N.V. Podgorny are standing on the platform of the Lenin Mausoleum, a column of tanks is moving along Red Square. Fifth part. A panorama of the faces of the Crimean Tatars. Crimea, a panorama from mountain peaks in the fog to a group of people standing at a house under construction. A boy and a girl are performing a Tatar dance on the street near a house under construction, adults are standing around, applauding. One of the leaders of the Crimean Tatars, a prisoner of the maximum security camps Mustafa Dzhemilev talks about the role of P. Grigorenko in the Crimean Tatars movement. G. Bakhchisarai, protesters' tents on Lenin Square, passers-by are walking. Winter, Moscow, view of the house where P. Grigorenko's family lived. A man rocking a baby in a stroller near the house, passers-by are walking. A fellow human rights activist P. Grigorenko tells how he was transferred from one psychiatric hospital to another. A panorama from a high brick fence to the windows behind bars in a psychiatric hospital. The inscription "Entrance to the hospital with a pass!", Patients pass, benches in the yard, snow. The entrance to the Chernyakhovsk psychiatric hospital, above the door is a hammer and sickle. B / w c / t: Moscow, 1970s, May Day demonstration on Red Square - workers are walking with flowers, balloons, carrying posters, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev greets them from the rostrum. Sixth part. The grandson of human rights activist A.E. Kosterin, Aleksey Smirnov (human rights activist, prisoner of high security camps), in his apartment talks about his grandfather, shows photographs. AE Kosterin's daughter Elena talks about the human rights movement. The leader of the Crimean Tatars M. Dzhemilev smokes. Cr.pl. - the faces of dissidents sitting at the table in the room. Moscow, winter, empty pedestal of the monument to F.E. Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanskaya Square, in the background - the FSB building. Moscow, summer, sculpture park Art Museum along the Crimean embankment near the Central House of Artists. A member of the human rights movement, a prisoner of Stalin's camps, Vladimir Bukovsky, talks about the Soviet regime. Moscow, winter, the square in front of the Leningradsky railway station - a man plays the trumpet, a drunk woman is dancing, cr.pl. - the faces of homeless people. An elderly woman begs for alms. A conscript stands at a military vehicle. Winter, people collect water from the spring into cans B / W k / t: early. 1980s, Moscow, workers' demonstration on Red Square; early 1990s, a rally of supporters of the CPSU, women holding flags, portraits of V. I. Lenin, a man kissing a flag, an elderly woman shouting slogans for the USSR; a man handing out leaflets outside the building of the Lenin Museum, passers-by read the leaflets.

B&W

6

1997