Jewish Cemetery

Moscow. Vostryakovskoe cemetery. The helicopter flies over the cemetery. Men build a tombstone from stone on the grave of the rabbi, remember the activities and the last days of the deceased, talk about religion (sinhr.). Hump on the grave of the rabbi. (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 hours) The author and performer of songs B. Keener at home sings a song about buffalo for friends (sync.). (1 hour) Participants of the meeting of the Moscow Society of Jewish Culture in the hall. One of the activists of the society speaks at the podium (sinhr.). Wall newspaper "Rodnik", the national flag of Israel in the hall. Children in the synagogue at the celebration. Destroyed monuments on the graves of Jewish citizens. (3 hours) Exhibition dedicated to citizens of Jewish nationality who disappeared during the Stalinist repressions. Photos, biographical information about the disappeared in the exhibition. The audience at the exhibition. Actor Lvovich in the exhibition hall sings the song "They took the prophet to the Komi Republic ..." (sinhr.). (6 hours) Memorial evening for the victims of Stalinist repressions in the Moscow Society of Jewish Culture. One of the activists of the society is speaking (sinhr.). Photos of Soviet citizens of Jewish nationality, victims of repression, in the hall. Candles are burning. Flowers near the photographs. Fragment of the musical performance "The Journey of Beniamin III to the Holy Land" on the stage of the Hermitage Theater (sinhr.). Service in the synagogue. Theater actors among believers in the synagogue. Monument at the grave of the poet S. Galkin. Burning candles on the grave. Burning candles in the cemetery in the evening. (7 hours) Lviv region, Lviv. Jewish artist Mikhail meets his pregnant wife and daughter at the railway station. Country village. The furnishings in the artist's house. Mikhail talks about the search in the house of his bride, about his forced stay in a psychiatric hospital, about his childhood, about studying at an art school, about his passion for the history of the Jewish people (sinhr.). Paintings of the artist. Mikhail and his family near the maternity hospital talking to his wife through the window (sinhr.). Mikhail meets his wife with a newborn child near the maternity hospital. The artist's wife talks about living together with Mikhail (sinhr.). Mikhail is working on a painting in the studio. Mikhail and his daughter inspecting a dilapidated synagogue (sinhr.). The artist's wife sings a lullaby in Russian and Hebrew (sinhr.). Mikhail with his wife and children in the terminal building says goodbye to family and friends before leaving for Israel. A dilapidated synagogue building. (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 hours) A young man on a city street in a crowd sings a song in Hebrew (sinhr.). (8 hours) Latvian SSR, Daugavpils. Former prisoners of the ghetto visit the prison where a concentration camp was located during the war. Territory, gates, corridors of the prison. Prisoners on the territory of the prison. Excavations in a forest near the city at the site of mass executions of ghetto prisoners during the Great Patriotic War. Remains of the victims. A Jewish man working at the excavation talks about himself (sinhr.). Participants in the excavation put the remains of the dead in boxes. Funeral procession of residents of the city on the day of the burial of the remains of the dead. Participants in the procession carry photographs of the dead, coffins with remains, a six-pointed star made of flowers. Crowded funeral meeting of local residents near the ditch where excavations were carried out. Artist Mikhail is speaking (sinhr.). Burial of the remains in a common grave. (2, 3, 5, 8, 9 hours) Latvian SSR, Riga. A rally dedicated to the tragic events in Tbilisi, on the square near the Freedom Monument. Participants of the meeting are speaking (sinhr.). (8 hours)

Color

9

1989