We Build a New New World

The film tells about the activities of AT Tvardovsky as editor-in-chief of the "New World" magazine. 1st part. Dachas of poets A.T. Tvardovsky and A.G. Dementyev in a summer cottage village near Krasnaya Pakhra, Moscow region. A.T. Tvardovsky's desk at the dacha. Photo portraits of A.T. Tvardovsky and A.G. Dementieva. The funeral of A.T. Tvardovsky (photo, 1971). Former member of the editorial board of the magazine "New World" V.Ya.Lakshin recalls the discussion of the story of AI Solzhenitsyn "One Day in Ivan Denisovich" by the editorial staff in 1962 (synchronously). Building No. 1 on Chekhov Street in Moscow, where the editorial office of the Novy Mir magazine was located in the 1960s. Former member of the editorial board of the magazine "New World" Yuri G. Burtin recalls the publication in the magazine of the novel by V. S. Grossman "For the Right Cause", the poem by AT Tvardovsky "Tyorkin in the Next World", articles by Pomerantsev "On Sincerity in Criticism "in 1952-1954. and about the closed resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the mistakes of the editorial board of the magazine "New World" (synchronously). Photo portraits of writers F.A. Abramov, D.A. Granin, V.P. Nekrasov, M.A.Sholokhov, I.G. Erenburg. Newsreel footage: staff of the editorial office of the magazine "New World" congratulate AT Tvardovsky on his 50th birthday (1958). People buy newspapers at the kiosk. View of Lysva, Perm region. A resident of Lysva Barkov - the author of the notes about the escape from the Kolchak prison, published in the magazine, is walking along the city street. 2nd part. Photo portraits of the editorial staff of A.T. Tvardovsky, I.A.Sats, A.I.Kondratovich, A.M. Maryanov, who fought in the Great Patriotic War. Photo of A.I.Solzhenitsyn during his imprisonment. Manuscript of the story "One Day in Ivan Denisovich". Letters from readers with responses to this story. Archival documents of the ideological department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the State Committee for the Press, testifying to their interference in the publishing activities of the magazine, on the imposition of locked on publications, on the demand for the dismissal of some employees. Researchers look through documents in the reading room of the Archive of Contemporary Documentation. Newsreel footage. The presidium and participants of the 3rd Congress of USSR Writers in the hall during the meeting (1959). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee N.S. Khrushchev speaks at the podium of the Congress (synchronously). A.T. Tvardovsky in a group of writers on the territory of the Kremlin. Passers-by near a shop window on a Moscow street. Police officer at the post. Writer S.V. Mikhalkov among the pioneers on Red Square. The building of the Central Committee of the CPSU. 3rd part. Photos by A.T. Tvardovsky, K.A. Fedin, A.I. Kondratovich. Certificate of the editor-in-chief of the magazine "New World" AT Tvardovsky. Manuscript of AT Tvardovsky's poem "By the Right of Memory". Former member of the editorial board of the magazine "New World" N. Khitrov talks about the circumstances preceding the resignation of AT Tvardovsky (synchronously). The funeral of V.Ya. Lakshin. Writer, literary critic LZ Kopelev speaks about the importance of the magazine "New World" in the years of the "thaw" and in the years of "stagnation" (synchronously).

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1993