Remembering Boris Pasternak

First part. Moscow city. Peredelkino. Winter and spring landscapes. Memorial service for B. Pasternak in the Peredelkin church. House of the Pasternak family. Photos and portraits. Galina Neuhaus speaks about B. Pasternak (synchronously). A. Voznesensky speaks at an evening in memory of B. Pasternak (synchronously). Chronicle footage: 1953, the funeral of I.V. Stalin, the removal of the coffin with Stalin's body, the funeral procession, the memorial meeting, L.P. Beria, V.M. Molotov are speaking (synchronously), K.V. Voroshilov, N. S. Khrushchev, G.M. Malenkov; presentation of the Nobel Prizes, the King and Queen of Sweden are present. Interview with Pasternak's sister Josephine Pasternak (synchronously), (England, Oxford). The second part of. Continuation of the interview with J. Pasternak (synchronously), J. Pasternak talks about V. Mayakovsky and L. Brik. Literary critic N. Feinberg gives interviews (synchronously). Exhibition dedicated to the victims of Stalinist repressions. Ruined and unkempt graves in one of the cemeteries, rickety crosses. Destroyed narrow-gauge railway, old steam locomotives. Ruins. Chronicle footage: 1st All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, the building where the congress is being held, the audience in the hall, among those present: A. Tolstoy, B. Pasternak, A. Fadeev, F. Gladkov, B. Pasternak, speakers: M. Gorky , N. Bukharin; demonstration on Red Square, on the podium of the Mausoleum: N. Rykov, K.E. Voroshilov, I.V. Stalin, G. Dimitrov. The third part. M. Japaridze and T. Tabidze talk about B. Pasternak and P. Yashvili (synchronously). Chronicle footage: 1930s, demonstrators dance and dance to the accordion, a brass band is playing; M. Isakovsky reads poetry from the podium (synchronously); a rally organized in support of one of the trials of the 1930s (synchronously); court session on March 4, 1938, Vyshinsky speaks (synchronously). Fourth part. Continuation of the interview with N. Feinberg (synchronously). Interview M. Neuhaus (synchronously). Interview of the publisher I. Feltrinelli (synchronously in Italian) about the history of the publication of the novel "Doctor Zhivago" in Italy. Views of Moscow from the top point. Interiors of Boris Pasternak's apartment in Lavrushinsky lane and a house in Peredelkino. Chronicle footage: rallies organized in support of trials (synchronously). The article "The Soviet People Judge Them", published in the central press and signed by representatives of the creative intelligentsia. Fifth part. Peredelkin's autumn landscape. Pond. Interview N. Feinberg and E. Evtushenko (synchronously). A. Voznesensky is reading a poem by Pasternak (synchronously). A literary critic from Sweden B. Yangfeld speaks about B. Pasternak (synchronously in Russian). Amateur video filming: foreign journalists and guests congratulate Pasternak on being awarded the Nobel Prize. Sixth part. A. Voznesensky reads B. Pasternak's letter to the Soviet government (synchronously). B. Pasternak's appeal to NS Khrushchev, published in Pravda. Chronicle footage: the Nobel Prize ceremony, the King and Queen of Sweden are present; a meeting at which A. Sofronov delivers an accusatory speech against B. Pasternak (synchronously); E. Yevtushenko speaks from the rostrum. M. Neigauz talks about the betrayal of friends (synchronously). B. Okudzhava is reading Pasternak's poems (synchronously). Seventh part. Georgia. City of Tbilisi. Streets, buildings, traffic and pedestrian traffic. Views of the city from the top point. N. Tabidze, M. Anjaparidze, T. Natadze talk about B. Pasternak (synchronously). Chronicle footage: B. Pasternak reads his poems (synchronously); NS Khrushchev speaks at a meeting with the creative intelligentsia, the audience applauds. Eighth part. A. Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) speaks about B. Pasternak (synchronously). Chronicle footage: the ceremony of awarding the Nobel Prizes to A. Solzhenitsyn and I. Brodsky, among those present - N. Solzhenitsyn; presentation of state awards to NS Khrushchev, LI Brezhnev; members of the Politburo in the presidiums of the meetings. B. Yangfeld's interview (synchronously). E. Yevtushenko speaks about the repentance of B. Slutsky (synchronously). Amateur footage with B. Pasternak. Ninth part. Peredelkin's landscapes. Cemetery, grave of B. Pasternak. Interview with J. Pasternak (synchronously). A. Sinyavsky talks about Pasternak's funeral (synchronously). Amateur footage with B. Pasternak. Members of the film crew are filming and recording interviews. The film includes fragments of the performance of the Leningrad Drama and Comedy Theater "The Notebook of Yuri Zhivago" (ch. 3,4,5,7,9). The film uses materials from the USSR State Film Fund, the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR (RGAKFD), TsGAKFD of the Georgian SSR, TsGALI, the KGB archive, the personal archive of the Pasternak family, the Swedish television film archive, the Feltrinelli Foundation (Italy).

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I. Menzheritsky (script). Yuri Kasparov (music). N. Roginskaya (sound). I. Kvasha (announcer).