Dmitry Shostakovich Viola Sonata

A film about the life and work of the Russian composer Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich. Music from the works of D.D. Shostakovich sounds throughout the film. Part I Summer cottage of composer D.D. Shostakovich in the village. Zhukovka, Moscow Region, where he spent the last months of his life. Certificate of graduation from the Leningrad Conservatory in two faculties - piano and composition. A poster on which young D. Shostakovich is declared a pianist-pianist. Photos of the composer in childhood and student years, family photos with parents and sisters. Newsreel footage: - 1920s, city [Petrograd]: city streets, a cinema where spectators watch a silent film. - 1975, Moscow (filming from the TV screen): rehearsal of the opera by D.D. Shostakovich's "The Nose" at the Moscow Chamber Music Theater, in the role of P.K. Kovaleva - baritone Eduard Akimov, in the role of Ivan's servant - tenor Boris Alexandrovich Druzhinin. Part II Photos of D. Shostakovich with friends, I. Sollertinsky and V. Shebalin, with his future wife N. Varzar, participants of the 1st F. Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1927 Playbill of the author's concert of composers V. Shebalin and D Shostakovich in Moscow in 1923. Dmitry Dmitrievich's room at the dacha. Newsreel footage: - 1919, [Moscow]: footage of the silent film "Polikushka" (film company "Rus", director A. Sanin, cameraman Yu. Zhelyabuzhsky) based on the story of L.N. Tolstoy, in the main role Polykei - the actor of the Moscow Art Theater Ivan Moskvin. - 1920s, city [Petrograd]: the projectionist turns the handle of the film projector; a car is driving along the road, beautifully dressed women are sitting in the carriage; restaurant visitors drink wine and beer, smoke, artists perform on stage. - 1929-1930: religious procession with the icon of [Nicholas the Pleasant]; drunken men walk down the street, lie on the road; the groom celebrates the future wedding with his friends; cyclists are going, athletes are jumping into the water from a tower; are demonstrators with a banner "Workers of all countries unite!" people ride on merry-go-rounds and swings, on a spinning disc. 1920-1930s, Warsaw: the spire of the clock tower above the entrance to the Royal Castle (XVI-XVII centuries); stairs to the [hall], where the 1st F. Chopin International Piano Competition was held. - 1920-1930s: railway tracks with a semaphore; a steam locomotive is going. Part III Photos of the production of the first opera by D.D. Shostakovich's "The Nose" in the Moscow-Narva House of Culture in Leningrad in [1930]. Playbill and photographs of the composer's first ballet "The Golden Age" (1930) Newsreels: - [1917]: a young man handing out leaflets on the street, a girl looks at what is happening. - the end of the 1920s, Leningrad: spectators enter the [Leningrad Philharmonic (former Noble Assembly)]. - 1930s, [Leningrad]: moving of urban residents to new apartments; communal kitchen with rows of pots and pots. - 1930, Moscow: XVI Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (VKP (b) - on the podium are the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Scriabin), secretary of the Central Committee of the VKP ( b) Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili), Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the USSR from the RSFSR Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov, First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b) Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich. - 1930 -ies: workers at construction sites of the first five-year plans. - [1930s], Leningrad, footage of fiction films: the struggle of soldiers of the workers 'and peasants' Red Army for Soviet power. - 1933, Moscow: inspector of cavalry workers -peasant Red Army (RKKA) Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny rides a horse in the Khamovnichesky arena at the Higher Cavalry School of Riding, he is drawn by the artist Nikolai Fedorovich Denisovsky. - [1935], Tambovskaya about bl., Michurinsk (until 1932, the city of Kozlov): biologist and breeder Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin in the garden. - 1935-1941, Leningrad: [physical culture parade] - the first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee and the city committee of the All-Union Communist Party ( b) Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhdanov and others. Young sailors are passing by; a car is driving with boxers competing in the ring; an impromptu naval ship with sportsmen, two sailors doing exercises on the crossbar; model of a pool with water by car; athletes dance in a column. Part IV Dacha D.D. Shostakovich in the Moscow region. Newsreel footage: - 1935-1941, Leningrad: [physical culture parade] - imitation of hand-to-hand combat during the parade; columns of athletes with bouquets of flowers; athletes dancing on the square. - 1941, Leningrad: Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee and the City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks A.A. Zhdanov is talking on the phone. D.D. Shostakovich writes on a sheet of paper at the piano: "7 SYMPHONY 1941 LENINGRAD"; smokes a cigarette. There is a column of Red Army soldiers, women are seeing them off. - 1941, Leningrad, footage of the film "Friends, to the Front" (Lenfilm, directed by V. Eismont): a meeting of students of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute. Speaker (sinhr.) Student Olga Fedorina, who played a role in the film "Front-line friends", she encourages girls to enroll in sandruzhin; a column of sandruzhinits goes through the streets of Leningrad, including O.P. Fedorin. - [1941, Leningrad]: burning house; children and adults run to the bomb shelter; women take children's coffins out of the house; follow the car with coffins; evacuation of city residents at the railway station; a German bomber "Henkel 177" is flying in the sky; Leningraders are working on the defensive line; there is a column of teenagers from the [Leningrad People's Militia]; female anti-aircraft gunners load a gun. - 1941-1943, besieged Leningrad: the townspeople clean [25 October Avenue (since 1944 Nevsky Prospect)] of ice; men lift an exhausted woman who has fallen on the street. - [1941-1943], German chronicle: a fascist looks out of the trench. - 1945, Moscow: actor of the Moscow Art Academic Theater of the USSR named after M. Gorky Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin speaks (sinhr.) At an anti-fascist rally in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, he talks about the invincibility of the Russian people. Part V Photos by D.D. Shostakovich with a friend and artistic director of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic I.I. Sollertinsky. Announcement of the performance of the "Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony" in Novosibirsk in 1942. Photo of Dmitry Dmitrievich at the grave of I.I. Sollertinsky. 1948 order to dismiss Professor D.D. Shostakovich from the Leningrad Conservatory. Photos by D.D. Shostakovich with friends, composers, musicians. Newsreel footage: - [1935], Tambov region, Michurinsk (until 1932, the city of Kozlov): biologist and breeder Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin in the garden. - 1945, Moscow: D.D. Shostakovich speaks (sinhr.) At an anti-fascist rally in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, talks about the historical role of art workers during the war. - May 1945, Moscow: The Bolshoi Theater is decorated with portraits of V.I. Lenin, I.V. Stalin and others; Muscovites and military leaders are walking along the street, including the leading actress of the Mossovet Theater V.P. Maretskaya with her daughter Masha Troitskaya, chief director of the State Academic Theater named after Mossovet Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky; a bus with the NDP is passing by: "YES HELO ON MAY 1". D.D. Shostakovich examines a shop window. - [1945], post-war chronicle: restoration of cities and factories, dismantling of debris, children are sitting in outerwear at their desks in a destroyed school, the wind is blowing, the teacher explains the lesson. Part VI Photos by D.D. Shostakovich with his wife Nina Vasilievna, at the coffin of S.S. Prokofiev. Graves N.V. Shostakovich and D.D. Shostakovich at the Novodevichy cemetery. Lenin Prize Laureate D.D. Shostakovich. Newsreel footage: - 1950, [Moscow], footage of the film "30 years of Soviet cinema" (TSSDF, directors V. Boykov, S. Gurov): D.D. Shostakovich plays the piano, he is listened to by the actor of the Studio Theater of Film Actor Pyotr Martynovich Aleinikov, People's Artist of the USSR, actor of the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov, People's Artist of the USSR, film actress Tamara Fedorovna Makarova, film actor, songwriter Mark Naumovich Bernes (at birth - Menachem- Man Neukhovich Neiman), Honored Artist of the RSFSR, actress of the Theater-Studio of Film Actor and the Moscow Theater of Satire Lydia Pavlovna (later Petrovna) Sukharevskaya, People's Artist of the RSFSR actor of the Theater-Studio of Film Actor Boris Mikhailovich Tenin, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Studio of Film Actor Teatra Iwan ) Peltzer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, actor of the Film Actor Theater-Studio Sergei Alexandrovich (Yanovich) Martinson, composers T.N. Khrennikov, Yu.A. Shaporin, composer Nikolai Nikolaevich Kryukov, A.I. Khachaturian. - 1956, Moscow: September 23 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory D.D. Shostakovich is congratulated on his 50th birthday. The composer and pianist, public figure Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky is performing, the chairman of the Board of the Union of Composers of the USSR, composer Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov, is sitting at the table. Dmitry Dmitrievich congratulates [chief director of the State Academic Theater named after Mossovet Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky]. Rewarding D.D. Shostakovich with the Order of Lenin in connection with the fiftieth anniversary. He is congratulated by composer, conductor and music teacher Yuri Aleksandrovich Shaporin, composer Aram Ilyich Khachaturyan, ballerina and teacher Olga Vasilievna Lepeshinskaya, violinist and music teacher Galina Vsevolodovna Barinova, [soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, harpist Vera Georgievna Dulova (1909-2000) USSR V.I. Pakhomov] and many others. - 1958, Moscow: Chairman of the Board of the Union of Composers of the USSR T.N. Khrennikov presents the honorary badges and diplomas of Lenin Prize laureates to the chief director of the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov, People's Artist of the USSR to the actor of the Leningrad State Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin (Alexandrinsky) to Yuri Vladimirovich Tolubeev and D.D. Shostakovich in the auditorium of the Moscow Art Academic Theater. M. Gorky (Moscow Art Theater). Dmitry Dmitrievich with a bouquet of flowers speaks back. - 1959, Moscow: New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein performs the finale of the 5th symphony in the Great Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic. - 1967, Leningrad: Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction of the People's Artist of the USSR, conductor Yevgeny Alexandrovich Mravinsky performs the finale of the 5th Symphony in the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. Part VII Country house number 20 in the village of Repino (Leningrad), where D.D. Shostakovich. Photos of anxious D.D. Shostakovich, composer V. Ya. Shebalin in a black frame, violinist D. Oistrakh, Irina Antonovna Shostakovich - Dmitry Dmitrievich's wife since 1962. The staircase from the back entrance and the auditorium of the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater, where in 1975 an early opera by D.D. Shostakovich's "The Nose". Newsreel footage: - 1920s: a rotating disc with people, under the action of centrifugal force throws them off the disc. - [1941], Moscow: in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the USSR State Symphony Orchestra conducted by [Alexander Vasilyevich Gauka] (1893-1963) performs (sync.) The finale of the 1st concert for piano and orchestra by D.D. Shostakovich, a composer at the piano. - 1950s, Moscow: composer and teacher Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin plays the piano with the A.P. Borodin: 1st violin - Rostislav Davidovich Dubinsky, 2nd violin - Yaroslav Pavlovich Alexandrov, viola - Dmitry Vissarionovich Shebalin, cello - Valentin Alexandrovich Berlinsky. - 1950-1960s, [Paris]: night [airport in Paris], the Seine River with silhouettes of buildings on the banks. - 1960s: D.D. Shostakovich rides on a train, it is raining outside the window. - 1966, March 9, pos. Komarovo (Leningrad) (filmed by director S. Aranovich): funeral of the poetess Anna Andreevna Akhmatova. Part VIII Room D.D. Shostakovich at the dacha. The hospital ward, where Dmitry Dmitrievich spent the last days of his life. The grave of D.D. Shostakovich at the Novodevichy cemetery. Photos of Dmitry Dmitrievich in different years of his life. Newsreel footage: - 1975, Moscow: fragments of the opera by D.D. Shostakovich's "The Nose" at the Moscow Chamber Music Theater, in the role of P.K. Kovaleva - baritone Eduard Akimov, in the role of Ivan - tenor Boris Alexandrovich Druzhinin.

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scriptwriter B. Dobrodeev, sound engineer E. Belyaeva, chief consultant K. Karaev, consultants S. Khentova, M. Yakubov, editor T. Yanson, film director J. Hayrapetyants