My Dear Lark

The film is dedicated to the Russian singer Nadezhda Vasilievna Plevitskaya. The film uses materials from the RGAKFD, the Shalyapin House-Museum, the S.T.Konenkov Museum-Workshop, the M.S.Schepkin Museum-Estate, the V.I. Bakhrushin. The film stars: G. I. Doronina, K. S. Konenkov, A. Strelchenko, musicologist-collector V. Safozhkin, residents of Vinnikovo village of Kursk region, Belgorod folklore ensemble "Peresek", participants of the folk festival "Kholkinskaya spring" of the Belgorod region: Dasha Pavlichenko, L. Gavrilova. Part 1. Landscapes winter and summer. Men are mowing the grass. The gramophone, the record is spinning. Chronicle footage: peasants in arable land. Part 2. The interior of the village hut, children are sitting on the stove, women at the well. The woman is dancing. Forest landscapes. Church. Part 3. Church and churchyard. Chronicle footage: carousel, performances of artists at the fair, the audience, the movement of the ship, the gramophone and other household items, swing, L.V. Sobinov (voice-over), the funeral of N.V. Sobinov, Manezhnaya Square, L.N. Tolstoy on a walk. Part 4. The woman at the spinning wheel. Chronicle footage: women at work and at home; chronicle of the period of the First World War; procession; chronicle of the period of the Civil War in Russia. Part 5. Chronicle footage: soldiers get on the train, the movement of ships, cars; the audience in the restaurant; bazaar; views of the city of Paris; chronicle of the period of the Second World War; peasants and peasants at work in the field. Part 6. Chronicle footage: scientists at the observatory, at the telescope. Landscapes. Opening of the monument to N. Plevitskaya. The sculptor V. Klykov is speaking.

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speakers I. Шатова, Н. Burlyaev