Film Dmitri Shostakovich. Sketches a portrait of the composer. (1967)
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0:09:29Dmitri Shostakovich. Sketches a portrait of the composer (1967)
Annotation:
The story of the life and works of famous Russian and Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich. The film covers a considerable period of time between the mid 1920s and mid 1960s, the documentary includes rare footage of newsreels.
Reel №1
Alternating: the view from the train window, Shostakovich standing at the window.
White nights in Leningrad.
View of St.
Isaac's Cathedral.
Luggage goes under the bridge, view of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Leningrad Philharmonic.
The orchestra on stage.
Conductor M.D.Shostakovich.
Shostakovich speaks to M.D.Shostakovichem.
Shostakovich held in the auditorium.
There is a rehearsal of the 1st symphony.
Shostakovich in the hall.
View of the hall and the stage from above.
Photos from the family album Shostakovich.
The corridors of the Petrograd Conservatory, where he studied Shostakovich.
Class of Rimsky-Korsakov.
On the wall is a portrait of Rimsky-Korsakov, the entrance is a grand piano.
The keyboard of the piano.
Photos.
Photos from the rehearsals of the play Mayakovsky "Bug".
A scene from the play, as Prisypkina I.Ilinsky.
Photos.
Vehicles on the streets.
Cinema "Barricade", where Shostakovich worked as pianist in his youth.
Stills from the film "The Return of Maxim."
Personnel:
DD Shostakovich - Composer, pianist, teacher, professor, music and public figure, Doctor of Arts. Shostakovich MD - Conductor and pianist. BP Chirkov - Film and theater actor, teacher and performer of songs, People's Artist of the USSR. MI Zharov - Actor, film and theater director, People's Artist of the USSR.
Calendar: 1960s 1937
Locations: Leningrad [848]
Reel №2
Vehicles on the street in front of the cinema "Barricade".
Stills from the film "Hamlet."
Past Cinema "Barricade" passing trolleybuses and buses.
Pavilion studio "Lenfilm".
There is a shot of the film-opera "Katerina Ismailova".
Tells G.P.Vishnevskaya.
Newsreel 1930. Shostakovich plays the piano score of the opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk".
Says Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Leningrad Maly Opera Theater (Mikhailovsky Theatre).
Pictures premiere of the opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" in 1934.
Photos of Dmitry Shostakovich.
The premiere of the second version of the opera in 1962.
Applauding audience.
Shostakovich passes through the auditorium and shaking hands with the conductor and first violin.
Woman hands over flowers Shostakovich.
Alternation: applause, composer with artists come to pay homage.
Tells L.B.Kogan. S.T.Rihter and Borodin Quartet rehearsed quintet.
Personnel:
DD Shostakovich - Composer, pianist, teacher, professor, music and public figure, Doctor of Arts. GP Vishnevskaya - Opera singer, theater director, teacher and actress, People's Artist of the USSR. Inozemtsev AM - Film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the Lithuanian SSR, People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR. VI Nemirovich-Danchenko - Theater director and critic, educator, playwright, writer, People's Artist of the USSR. Kogan LB - Violinist, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR. ST Richter - Pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, the first in the USSR Grammy winner.
Calendar: 1960s 1930s
Locations: Moscow [820] Leningrad [848]
Reel №3
Mstislav Rostropovich says.
Shostakovich and Mstislav Rostropovich with the musicians at rehearsal number 2 for Cello and Orchestra.
A fragment of a rehearsal.
Leningrad Symphony Orchestra performed the 5th Symphony.
It sounds finale of the symphony, conducted by EA Mravinsky.
Applause.
View of the stage and the hall above.
Personnel:
DD Shostakovich - Composer, pianist, teacher, professor, music and public figure, Doctor of Arts. ML Rostropovich - Cellist, pianist, conductor, teacher, and public figure, People's Artist of the USSR. EA Mravinsky - Conductor, People's Artist of the USSR.
Calendar: 1960s
Locations: Leningrad [848]
Reel №4
View Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetery.
The monument "Motherland."
Eternal Fire.
Photos of besieged Leningrad.
Empty Philharmonic Hall.
Newsreel 1941-1942.
The Siege of Leningrad.
Shostakovich at the piano works of the 7th Symphony.
Composer extinguishes the light and raises the curtain.
View on the destroyed and burning houses.
Dissolve: burning trees and house notes.
The concert in the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic August 9, 1942.
Meeting at the Philharmonic Hall survivors listeners and performers 7th Symphony 25 years later.
View of the auditorium.
Mutual greeting the audience and the orchestra.
Conductor is prepared to top performances.
Those viewers.
Sounds 7th Symphony.
Stands with notes.
The orchestra in the empty places are and are musical instruments.
Eternal Fire.
Shostakovich with his son at monumeta "Motherland" at Piskarevsky.
Personnel:
DD Shostakovich - Composer, pianist, teacher, professor, music and public figure, Doctor of Arts. Shostakovich MD - Conductor and pianist.
Calendar: 1941-1942
Locations: Leningrad [848]
Reel №5
Presentation Shostakovich Prize "for peace between peoples."
Applause auditorium.
Composer congratulate Nazim Hikmet Ran, I.G.Erenburg, A.I.Hachaturyan.
T.N.Hrennikov Shostakovich presents the Lenin Prize for the creation of the 11th symphony, dedicated to the 1905 revolution.
Congratulations to the composer.
Leningrad Maly Opera Theater.
Shostakovich in the hall.
Sounds 11th symphony.
Those viewers.
White Nights, the types of Leningrad.
Detail of ballet performances to the music of the 11th symphony.
Types of Leningrad.
Photos of Dmitry Shostakovich, work on the 13th symphony.
The night train rushing towards each other.
Alternation: Shostakovich train, raindrops on window glass.
The views from the train window.
Top view of the audience.
Those viewers.
Shostakovich.
Personnel:
DD Shostakovich - Composer, pianist, teacher, professor, music and public figure, Doctor of Arts. AI Khachaturian - Composer, conductor, teacher, music and public figure, People's Artist of the USSR Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR. TN Khrennikov - Composer, teacher, professor, musical and public figure. IG Ehrenburg - Poet, novelist, translator, photographer, social activist. Nazim Hikmet Ran - Turkish poet, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, social activist, winner of the International Peace Prize.
Calendar: 1954 1960s
Locations: Denmark [60] Leningrad [848]
Reel №6
Yerevan.
Airplane on the airfield.
Met with bouquets of flowers.
Shostakovich down the ladder and welcomed the participants.
Decade of Russian music.
Alternation: faces of the audience, the performance of Shostakovich on the podium.
Edinburgh.
Shostakovich down the plane.
Guests Edinburgh Festival diverge on buses.
The streets of Edinburgh.
Shostakovich talks with foreign counterparts.
Parade procession of bagpipe orchestra.
Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod).
Monument to Maxim Gorky.
Shostakovich and other participants of the festival of contemporary music are on the street.
Talk D.F.Oystrah, A.K.Yansons, K.P.Kondrashin.
Entrance to the building of the Philharmonic.
The audience applauded Shostakovich.
It sounds quintet.
Shostakovich composed of musicians.
Those viewers.
White Nights, the types of Leningrad.
Chandelier on the ceiling Philharmonic.
In the empty hall slides spotlight.
An ambulance rushes through the city (partially shot out of the car).
Old trees around Leningrad hospital Sverdlov.
Shostakovich goes through the ranks of musicians.
Composer welcomes visitors.
Alternation: applause auditorium, congratulations from members of the orchestra.
The scene of all people with flowers.
The view from the window of a moving train.
Shostakovich standing at the window.
Personnel:
DD Shostakovich - Composer, pianist, teacher, professor, music and public figure, Doctor of Arts. DF Oistrakh - A violinist, violist, conductor, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR. Jansons AK - Violinist, conductor and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR. KP Kondrashin - Conductor, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR.
Calendar: 1960s
Locations: Leningrad [848] Bitter [979] Armenia [12] Scotland [193]