Demyan Bedny

A film about the life and work of the poet D. Bedny. The boy in the class reads poems by D. Bedny. The Ukrainian village of Gubovka is the birthplace of the poet. Photo, footage of the chronicle: a hut, a boy in bast shoes. Photo of D. Bedny's parents. The city of Leningrad. St. Isaac's Cathedral, streets: Sadovaya, Pushkinskaya, Nevsky Prospect. Zvezda newspaper, Pravda editorial office. Poems, fables by D. Poor. Chronicle: February Revolution, Civil War. The interview is given by the daughter of Bonch-Bruevich Elena Vladimirovna. The funeral of V. I. Lenin. Old Moscow. A tram is going by. Metro construction. D. Poor goes with the workers through the tunnel; speaks at the 1st Congress of Soviet Writers, with his family at the dacha. S. V. Mikhalkov reports.

B&W

2

1983