Marina Passion

The film tells about the fate of the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva. 1 part. Memorial house of Marina Tsvetaeva in Bolshevo. Furnishings of rooms with household items. Newsreels [1912-1916] Children's holiday in Sestroretsk: children waving flags, playing in the meadow, the audience walking in the park. Charity demonstration with the participation of children from the orphanage. Children swing on swings, girls dance. Views of Moscow: a troika of horses rides through the square, sleigh carts stand by the building, the Passion Monastery, a monument to A.S. Pushkin. Fragments of silent feature films. Photos from the Tsvetaev family archive. Part 2. Crimea. Landscapes of the environs of Karadag in Koktebel: mountains, sea, red poppies in the meadow. House-Museum of M.A. Voloshin. Moscow. Corridor and staircase in the Butyrka prison in Moscow Newsreel footage of 1912. Inauguration of the Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander III in Moscow in 1912 in the presence of Emperor Nicholas II and members of his family. Fragments of a silent feature film. Part 3. Newsreel footage of the First World War (1914-1917). The movement of the medical convoy along the road, loading the wounded on the medical train, the car of the Military medical flying detachment at the hospital porch; wounded soldiers are carried on a stretcher. The movement of the train along the tracks past one of the stations. General view of the line for bread. Newsreel footage (1920-1925). View of one of the streets [of Moscow] along which the Red Army soldiers are transporting an artillery gun. People on the street. Cars, cabbies, trams are going by. Types of the area of the Belorussko-Baltic station, Kalanchevskaya square, railway station buildings. View of the hospital ward. The doctor approaches the sick child. Views of Moscow in winter: streets, children playing snowballs, skiing and sledding in one of the city's alleys. Spring in Moscow: ice drift on the Moskva River, a view of the Moscow Kremlin, a woman buys blossoming branches of wild rosemary on the street, people, incl. women with children resting on the boulevard Fragments of silent feature films. Photos from the Tsvetaev family archive. Part 4. Newsreels (1925-1928). A passenger train approaches the station platform in [Berlin], a crowd of people on the platform, unloading luggage from the carriage, carriers of a trolley with suitcases, a woman gets into a taxi car, a bus with passengers leaves the station building. Streets of Berlin. The movement of the bus, cars along the streets of the city. Visitors to the street cafe sit at tables. Views of Prague, incl. in the evening: general view of the city from Prague Castle, bridges over the Vltava, Cathedral of the Virgin Mary in front of Tyn, Old Town Square, medieval astronomical clock on the south tower, Charles Bridge. People go to a street cafe, sit at tables, a waitress takes an order. Visitors in the evening cafe, sitting at tables, dancing. The girl rides on a carousel in the park. Newsreel footage (1932-1936): views of Paris in winter: the building of Notre Dame Cathedral, a street artist at work, people are walking along the snowy streets. Young people play snowballs, slide down the ice-covered street, people skate on the ice rink. Photos from the Tsvetaev family archive. Part 5. Memorial house-museum of M. Tsvetaeva in Bolshevo. Veranda. Samovar on a tray. Panorama of the garden. Newsreel footage (1932-1936): people are sitting at cafe tables, dancing, a dancer performing an acrobatic act on the piano; a group of girls on the beach, demonstrating new swimsuit models, sitting on the sand, smoking, the audience walking along the embankment, along the street, a general view of the "flea" market and book collapse in Paris. Night Paris. Newsreel footage of 1937-1938 Moscow. People in masks at the New Year's masquerade, dancing, skating on ice. The audience is dancing. A fragment from a feature film, where S. Efron was shot in one of the episodic roles. Views of Moscow during the war (1941). People on the streets of the city, views of Gorky and Petrovka streets. The camouflaged building of the Bolshoi Theater. Anti-tank "hedgehogs" on one of the streets. Photos and family archive of the Tsvetaevs. Part 6. Memorial house-museum of M. Tsvetaeva in Bolshevo. Panorama through the rooms of the house-museum. Newsreels (1940-1946). Steamers sail along the Kama. Newsreel footage of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1943): soldiers run along the hillside to the river, one of the soldiers unwinds the windings, ties the raft logs with them, a group of fighters carry a boat in their arms to the river, a panorama of the river crossing, troops are transported to the other side of the river. soldiers are pulling a truck out of the water, resting.

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scriptwriter O. Agishev, sound engineer N. Ustimenko, sound engineer V. Zorin, artist N. Vinogradova