Sun Captive (1989)

Footage of the dispersal of demonstrations abroad on a TV screen.

TVs broadcasting news of armed conflicts and clashes between protesters and the police.

Solar flares during solar activity, a portrait of A.L. Chizhevsky appears.

Cover of Chizhevsky's book "Physical Factors of the Historical Process", published in 1924. The solar disk on a black background.

The solar disk in the sky, a view of an observatory.

Solar flare.

Pages of Chizhevsky's book with tables and diagrams.

Lightning strikes a tree.

Panorama of a flooded area, roofs of houses above the water (from above).

A man escapes from locusts.

Typhoon in the tropics.

A tsunami picks up and capsizes a ship.

Historical events listed in Chizhevsky's book, which coincided with the maximum of solar activity.

Fragments of a feature film with scenes of the shooting of the July demonstration in Petrograd in 1917. Solar flares.

Newsreel: Lenin V.I. speaks at a rally on November 7, 1918, on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument to Marx and Engels on Teatralnaya Square in Moscow.

Faces of the rally participants.

A cavalry unit of the Red Army rides across the square, people greet the red cavalrymen.

A flash of light in the sun.

A photograph of Chizhevsky in his youth.

A photograph of Kaluga in the early 20th century.

Newsreel: Tsiolkovsky K.E. rides a bicycle along the street.

Tsiolkovsky at his desk.

A photograph of Chizhevsky at his desk in his office.

A telescope in the Tsiolkovsky House Museum in Kaluga, a star atlas on the table.

Domes of an Orthodox church.

Tsiolkovsky House Museum in Kaluga (panorama).

A museum employee talks about the friendship between Tsiolkovsky and Chizhevsky, compares Chizhevsky to Tsiolkovsky, talks about the need to create a Chizhevsky museum, discusses Chizhevsky as a scientist and an artist (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photographs of Chizhevsky conducting an experiment in the lab, in his office, at his desk.

Paintings by Chizhevsky, a photograph of Chizhevsky in his studio.

A photograph of Chizhevsky as a student.

The sun behind the clouds.

Newsreel: a column of prisoners passes.

Prisoners at a construction site in the 1920s.

Demonstrators carry banners with slogans.

A solar flare.

Newsreel from 1930: prosecutors arriving for a trial.

The defendants in the courtroom (top).

A hand shuffling through papers.

Sine waves and graphs drawn up by Chizhevsky.

Chizhevsky's documents and manuscripts, a portrait of Galileo (combined photography).

Photograph of Chizhevsky.

Removing archival documents from a box on a shelf in a storage facility.

Removing documents from a folder.

Lines of Chizhevsky's manuscript appear on the paper (animation).

A man enters a cinema.

A newsreel with Chizhevsky is shown on the screen.

Newsreel: experiments with birds in the air ionization laboratory at the Arzhenka state farm in 1931. Experimental chickens in cardboard cells during an experiment on the effect of Chizhevsky's installation on birds.

Comparative weighing of chickens on scales.

View of part of Chizhevsky's ionization installation.

Chizhevsky works with the installation, makes notes in a notebook.

Photographs of Chizhevsky with laboratory staff.

An elderly woman puts a record on an old record player, interior of a room.

The woman, sitting at a table, talks about meetings with Chizhevsky, about her impressions of the meeting with the scientist (synchronously and off-screen).

Photographs on a piano, a woman sitting at a table, looking at the photographs.

A photo portrait of Chizhevsky with an autograph.

The historian talks about the reasons for envy and hostility towards Chizhevsky on the part of his colleagues, talks about the intrigues of scientists around Chizhevsky's laboratory, about the pressure on Chizhevsky by the director of the Institute of Animal Husbandry Zavadovsky (synchronously and off-screen).

Boxes with files on the shelves of the archive storage.

Data tables under the magnifying glass.

Archival files on a trolley.

A photo of Chizhevsky in 1935. Solar flares.

Newsreel from 1937: participants in a rally at an industrial enterprise applaud the speaker, the speaker delivers a laudatory speech from the podium addressed to the NKVD and personally to Yezhov (synchronously and off-screen).

Archival files with documents related to the work and closure of Chizhevsky's laboratory.

Removing archival files from boxes in storage (combined filming).

Pages of Chizhevsky's documentary pamphlet about Zavadovsky, stored in the archives of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

A historian, based on archival documents, analyzes Chizhevsky's actions in the fight for the laboratory and against his defamation (synchronously and off-screen), documents from the archival file.

Photograph of Chizhevsky against the background of shelves with books.

Newsreel from 1937: faces of rally participants.

Vyshinsky A. Ya. delivers a speech, clouds cover the sun.

Faces of participants in a demonstration on Red Square in 1929-1935. Stalin I.V. greets the demonstration participants from the mausoleum tribune.

A flash of sunlight.

A view of part of the camp perimeter fence against the backdrop of the rising sun.

Part of the camp fence, floodlights are burning on the territory.

The text of an article about the Karaganda camp, published in the newspaper.

An employee of the editorial office talks about the camp and the life of the prisoners, about Chizhevsky's stay in Karlag (synchronously and off-screen).

Views of the camp territory and part of the perimeter.

A fragment of the text about prisoner Chizhevsky.

A photograph of Chizhevsky in profile.

A view of part of the ruins in the camp area.

Former prisoner P.G. Tikhonov stands by the remains of a barbed wire fence, a panorama of the territory of the former camp, ruins overgrown with grass.

Tikhonov walks along the remains of a barbed wire fence, his story about his stay in the camp with Chizhevsky and his joint work with him is heard off-screen.

The remains of a stone building on the territory of the former camp.

The crosses that have survived in the abandoned camp cemetery are getting dark.

Barbed wire against the dark sky.

Photograph of Chizhevsky during his time in the camp.

Barbed wire against the sun.

Manuscripts and photograph of Chizhevsky against the background of prison bars (combined photography).

The historian talks about Chizhevsky's scientific work during his time in prison and after his release, about the scientist's work in Karaganda (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photographs of Chizhevsky with colleagues during his work in Karaganda.

Pages of a thematic album dedicated to Chizhevsky.

Photograph of Chizhevsky.

Summer steppe landscape at sunset, clouds running across the sky.

Photograph of Chizhevsky at his desk.

Text of an article from 1964 criticizing Chizhevsky's scientific work, published in the journal "Party Life".

Cover of Chizhevsky's book "Physical Factors of the Historical Process".

The scientist talks about Chizhevsky's critics, the seriousness of the scientific problem raised by Chizhevsky, and the impact of solar activity on humanity (synchronously and off-screen).

Panorama of part of the observatory's territory.

The sun setting behind the clouds.

Atypical natural phenomena on the TV screen that arose during increased solar activity.

Graph of solar activity peaks with time periods indicated.

Newsreel of events on TV screens.

Solar flare.

Tombstone on Chizhevsky's grave at Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Sky over the steppe.

Clouds running across the sky.