Leo Tolstoy Is Our Contemporary

The film is dedicated to the life and work of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Photos by L. N. Tolstoy. Fields, river (removed from the span). Birch Grove. Film library. L. I. Tolstoy for a walk. A corner of the Yasnaya Polyana park. House-estate. Walking through the garden of Lev Nikolaevich and Sophia Andreevna. A table and a chair by the veranda of the house. Bookcases. Canteen at home in Yasnaya Polyana. Served table. Tolstoy with guests at the table (photo). Tolstoy with his family at a round table (photo). Table with candlesticks. Piano. The interior of Sophia Andreevna's room. Sewing machine. The interior of the room "under the arches". Secretary Tolstoy's desk. Small living room. Tolstoy's office. L. N. Tolstoy at his desk (photo). Tolstoy's manuscript. Tolstoy on the balcony of the house, with his family (photo). Son Sergei (photo). Panorama through the newspapers on the day of the anniversary of the writer. Tolstoy in a wheelchair (photo). The newspaper "Social Democrat" with an article by Lenin. Newspapers "Proletarian", "Star". Excerpts from Lenin's article "L. Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution". Film library. A woman with children at the collapsed hut. Poor peasant family (photo). A group of peasants (photo). Peasants leave the village (film library). The priests leave the Spassky Gate, walk along Red Square. Service. Barricade on Presnya. Demonstration in 1905 (photo). Punitive soldiers on Nevsky Prospekt (photo). Search in the street. The arrested were taken out of the carriage and driven down the street. The sentry on the tower. Arrested behind bars. On a barge. Shooting (photo). Fragment of Tolstoy's article "I Can't Be Silent". Tolstoy with the peasants (photo). Ponds of the Yasnaya Polyana park. Sedge. Landscape of the vicinity of Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy in a cab, at the station. The audience on the railroad tracks. Meeting Tolstoy. The audience on the platform at the train during the departure of Tolstoy. Tolstoy reads a letter (photo). The police beat up the Indians on the street of one of the cities. Tolstoy's article "Letter to a Hindu" in English. M. Gandhi on the podium. Delhi square filled with people. D. Nehru raises the national flag of India. Workers are dragging a trolley into the mine. Barge Haulers. The peasant plows on horseback, crosses himself before sowing, puts on a basket and scatters the grain. The horse pulls a drag on the straw. Threshing with flails. The public at the exchange. Paper money. Bank. Bank sign. Panorama of Tolstoy's manuscripts. Portrait of Tolstoy from the period of the Sevastopol defense. The cannon on the 4th bastion. Fragment of a staged battle on the 4th bastion. Portrait of veterans of the defense of Sevastopol. Ship guns are shooting. The ship is burning and sinking. Squadron at sea. Torpedo. The artillery battery is firing. Mobilized. Women are crying. The wounded at the hospital train, on stretchers. Nicholas II takes the parade. Fascists at the parade. Mussolini with his retinue on horseback. The battery of the Italian fascists. Airplane in the air. Explosions. The trees are on fire. Italo-Abyssinian war. Abyssinian troops in the mountains. Hitler takes the parade. Fascists throw books into the fire. Museum "Yasnaya Polyana" destroyed by the Nazis. The book "War and Peace" in English. The liberation of the cities of European states by Soviet troops: Paris, Prague, Vienna, Riga. Anti-war demonstration. The police disperse the demonstrators, water them with a cannon. Peace Congress emblem. E. Cotton, I. Ehrenburg, H. Johnson on the podium. A. Fadeev in the meeting room. Alley, pond, Yasnaya Polyana park in autumn, during rain, at night. Bed in L. Tolstoy's bedroom. L. Tolstoy in bed. Portrait of Sofia Andreevna with a child. Ladder, clock. The building of the Astapovo station, where the sick Tolstoy stayed. The station master's house. The bed on which Leo Tolstoy died. Death mask of the writer. Removal of the coffin with Tolstoy's body from the house in Astapovo. The coffin with the body is carried into the carriage. Factory dial tone. Bringing the coffin to Yasnaya Polyana. The peasants are carrying the coffin. Taking the coffin out of the house. Tomb of L. N. Tolstoy. Yasnaya Polyana in winter. Doi L. N. Tolstoy in Khamovniki. Monument to Tolstoy in Moscow. Tolstoy's books in different languages. Film library: Tolstoy saws wood, mounts a horse and makes a horse ride through the forest, gets out of a sleigh, distributes money to the poor, walk along the winter alley of the park.

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Screenplay D. Orlov