Headless Body or Bodybuilding

A film about the oldest Moscow professional model Igor Stepanovich Bosanko. Part I G. Moscow. Professional sitter I.S. Bosanko in a soldier's uniform walks down the pedestrian Sadovnichesky Bridge, enters the hairdresser's, where, talking with the master (sync. And behind the scenes), talks about his work and life: he began working as a model in [1933] and continues to work to this day. The first part of the film includes a newsreel of the formation of the Soviet state in the 1930s. Igor Stepanovich posed for the monuments of Soviet leaders, workers, builders, miners and many others for sculptors. Newsreel footage: - [1920s], USSR: a model sits on a dais in a sculpture workshop, students work from nature. - [1920s - 1930s], USSR: a boy [sells newspapers] to tram passengers. - [1930s], Far North: [reindeer herders] applaud, sitting on sledges. - [1930s], Moscow: People's Commissar of Defense K.E. Voroshilov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) I.V. Stalin, Soviet statesman and party leader [M.I. Kalinin] welcomed the audience from the rostrum; I.V. Stalin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR V.M. Molotov, state economic and party leader L.M. Kaganovich, People's Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR S. Ordzhonikidze applauding in the podium. - [1930s], USSR: test of a bicycle rail: [military] in Budenovka ride paired bicycles on rails, spectators greet them; workers are tamping concrete with their feet [at the construction site of the Dneproges]; the builder looks down; young people are processing parts synchronously. A detachment of athletes is walking along a city street; athletes make a pyramid at [sports festival]. Monument to V.I. Lenin. Death masks, hand casts, bas-reliefs in the art training workshop. Photojournalists are filming. - [1930s - 1940s]., USSR: a detachment of Red Guards salutes. - 1935, Moscow: speech (sync. And behind the scenes) I.V. Stalin at a meeting with metro builders. - [late 1930s], [Far East]: border guards on horseback look through binoculars at the other side of the river; with a dog in a shelter; pass by the post with the NDP: "SSSR"; on horseback on patrol. - [late 1930s], Moscow: sculpture by V. Mukhina "Worker and Collective Farm Woman". - 1938, Leningrad: opening of the monument to S.М. Kirov. - 1939, footage of the feature film "Tractor Drivers": actors M. Ladynina, N. Kryuchkov, P. Aleinikov, B. Andreev. - [1940s], Moscow: representatives of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, dancing, walk through the territory of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV) .- [1940s], USSR: monument to S.D. I. V. Merkurova Stalin. Bust of I.V. Stalin in [the artist's studio] .- [1940s], [Ukraine]: women weave a carpet with the image of I.V. Stalin. - [1950s], USSR: opening of the monument to V.I. Lenin against the background of the factory building. - [1950s - 1960s], city [Moscow]: lions in the circus bent over a gramophone. - 1954, Moscow: opening of the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky. - 1955 , Leningrad: opening of the monument to M.I. Kalinin. - [1970s - 1980s], [Moscow]: women work in a mannequin workshop, fragments of legs, arms, head, etc. are on the shelves. Part II Professional sitter I.S. Bosanko continues his story (sync. And off-screen) about his work and life. Igor Stepanovich continues his work in one of the art schools, where he poses for students. The second part uses a post-war newsreel. I.S. Bosanko depicts a monument to a Soviet soldier of the Great Patriotic War. Monuments to the leaders of the state of the 1930-1950s, which adorned the central squares of Moscow, for many of which I.S. Bosanko, collected in the Muzeon art park. Newsreel footage, Moscow: - [1920s], [Europe]: a female dance duet performs on the stage [variety show] .- [1920s - 1930s], USSR: peasants blow grain .- [1930s], Moscow: a subway train leaves the platform .- [1930s], USSR: press photographers .- [1940s], Moscow: festive fireworks in the sky above Moscow. Spectators in the stadium cheer for the players; fragments of a football match; traffic controller on a Moscow street; cadets of the Suvorov Military School go down the stairs; a girl at the Krasnye Vorota metro station buys flowers. - [1944], Moscow: sculptor-monumentalist academician Sergei Dmitrievich Merkurov and his assistants are finishing work on the monument to M.V. Lomonosov in his workshop .- [1950s], Moscow: sculptor [E.V. Vuchetich] is working on a sculpture in the studio. - 1994, St. Petersburg: the exhibition "Agitation for Happiness" is being held at the State Russian Museum. Soviet art of the Stalin era.

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scriptwriter A. Gutman, sound engineer N. Vinogradskaya, film director T. Yakovleva