Shostakovich laughs. (1993)

The film is based on the work of the story of Shostakovich's opera "Antiformalist paradise", which parodied by Stalin and ZHDANOVSKY okolofilosofskuyu demagogy, ridiculed barren political debate about the nature of lezginka, quoted ogoldelye performances so-called art in civilian clothes.

Choir, orchestra and soloists of the Moscow Musical Chamber Theatre under the direction of BA Pokrovsky sing opera "Antiformalist paradise" (sinhr.).

Agitplakaty 1930-1940 yy

Posters, scenic paintings depicting Stalin.

Piskarevsky.

Eternal Flame.

Sculpture symbolizing "the Motherland."

Newsreels: Shostakovich in a compartment of a passenger train; Shostakovich with his son at Piskarevsky; members of the First Congress of Soviet Composers in the courtroom (1948); participants of the Second Congress of Soviet Composers in the courtroom (1957); among those present at the congress - Shostakovich; boy draws a portrait of Stalin;  Stalin, AA Zhdanov, Molotov in the presidium of the meeting; skydivers jump out of an airplane.