Confession. (1997)

Documentary №51393, 3 parts, duration: 0:30:00
Production: Lennauchfilm (LNF)
Director:T. Iovleva
Screenwriters:R. Zhujkova T. Iovleva
Camera operators:V. Presnyakov, I. Tyagtinskaya
Composers:V. Sokolov
Sound mixer:A. Stefanov
Painter:V. Aleksandrov
Other authors:T. Ivanova, L. Ivanova, N. Smirnova, Zh. Klushanceva

Annotation:

The film is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin. The film attempts to reveal the meaning and decipher Pushkin's drawings in the margins of manuscripts of his works.

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View of the main staircase at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) The Russian Academy of Sciences in St.

Petersburg.

A painting depicting A.S. Pushkin on the seashore.

View of the living room of the Pushkin house.

Psychologist E. Petrova talks about Pushkin's drawings reflecting various traits of his character, about his emotions and feelings expressed in the drawings (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Fragments of one of Pushkin's manuscripts with drawings and portraits in the margins.

View of the gilded sculpture group in the foyer of the Pushkin House.

A burning candle with a candlestick in the form of a chariot with a figure of Pushkin.

A statuette of Pushkin in the sculptor's workshop.

Portraits of Pushkin on the background of his manuscript with drawings (combined shooting).

Candidate of Philosophical Sciences S. Denisenko talks about Pushkin's work on the novel "Eugene Onegin", about the poet's creative ideas while working on the novel, talks about Pushkin's manuscripts mentioned by the poet in the novel, quotes Pushkin, talks about portraits and numbers in manuscripts as Pushkin's riddle, talks about Pushkin's self-portraits and drawings (synchronously), shows Pushkin's manuscript sheets with drawings on the margins of the sheet.

A drawing depicting the building of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

Self-portrait of Pushkin-lyceum student.

Female portraits.

View of a part of Tsarskoye Selo Park.

A statuette on a spring in the park.

Views and panoramas of parts of Tsarskoye Selo Park.

Portraits of Pushkin-lyceum student.

Pushkin's self-portrait in profile.

Drawings with images of streets and historical buildings of St.

Petersburg of the early 19th century.

View of the Alexandrinsky Theater building.

Portraits of actresses on the background of a theater curtain (combined shooting).

Portraits of actresses drawn by Pushkin on the pages of the manuscript.

Drawings depicting social life in St.

Petersburg.

Manuscripts of Pushkin's poems against the background of St.

Petersburg buildings (combined shooting).

Portrait of Alexander I in the margins of one of Pushkin's manuscripts.

Pushkin's self-portrait in profile.

A statuette of Pushkin in the sculptor's workshop.

Summer forest landscape.

Graphic color landscapes of the south of Russia.

Pushkin's self-portrait, painted by him during his exile to the south, lines of poetry next to the portrait.

Portraits of family members of General Rayevsky.

Portraits of Pushkin and Rayevsky's daughters in the margins of the manuscript.

Pushkin's drawings during his stay in Chisinau, portraits of people around him.

Transformation of the portrait of Governor Krupensky's wife into a portrait of Pushkin (animation).

Portraits of Pushkin and female portraits on the margins of manuscripts.

Pushkin's profiles, drawn by him in the margins of the manuscript.

Sheets of Pushkin's manuscripts with texts of poems and portraits.

Pushkin's self-portraits on the pages of the manuscripts of the first chapter of "Eugene Onegin".

The wheel of a toy carriage.

Pushkin's self-portrait during his stay in Odessa.

Female portraits and self-portraits of Pushkin on one of the pages of the manuscript "Eugene Onegin".

Self-portrait of Pushkin in the costume of an oriental courtier.

Calendar: 1997

Locations: St. Petersburg [814]

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Self-portrait of A.S. Pushkin at the age of 24.

Pushkin's drawings and his self-portraits on manuscript sheets.

Female portraits next to Pushkin's self-portrait.

Profiles of the female head on the sheets of Pushkin's manuscripts.

A burning candle, a statuette of Pushkin.

Self-portraits and drawings of Pushkin.

Panorama of the surroundings of the village of Mikhailovskoye, a stork flies by.

Views of the park in Mikhailovsky, a bridge over a stream.

Entrance to the house in Mikhailovsky.

Interiors of rooms, Pushkin's desk with manuscripts.

One of Pushkin's illustrations for the novel "Eugene Onegin".

Pushkin's desk in Mikhailovsky.

Portraits of Voltaire in profile, drawn by Pushkin.

Pushkin's self-portrait next to the portrait of Voltaire and the figures of the Great French Revolution on a sheet of manuscript.

The appearance of Pushkin's self-portraits on a sheet of manuscript (animation).

Candidate of Philosophical Sciences V. Zhukova speaks about one of Pushkin's early drawings, about Pushkin's friends, presumably depicted in the drawing (synchronously and off-screen), faces in the drawing.

The porch of a house in Trigorskoye, a summer rural landscape.

Self-portraits of Pushkin in a cap and with a cane, riding a horse.

Landscapes of the village of Mikhailovskoye.

Windmill in the field.

The forest is along the road, the sun shines through the thickets.

Views and panoramas of the forest and park.

A bench under an oak tree.

The interior of Pushkin's office in Mikhailovsky.

Female portraits on the pages of the manuscript to the chapters about Tatiana in the novel "Eugene Onegin".

A statuette of Napoleon.

Monument to Peter I.

The walls and windows of the casemates of the Peter and Paul Fortress, where the Decembrists were imprisoned.

Portraits of Decembrists and silhouettes of five hanged on sheets of Pushkin's manuscript.

Portrait of Pushkin among the sketches of participants in the events of December 14, 1825.

A burning piece of paper.

Windmill at sunset.

Portrait of Nicholas I.

Self-portraits of Pushkin in profile.

Drawings depicting Moscow streets in the first third of the 19th century.

Drawings and paintings of salon life in Moscow.

Self-portraits of Pushkin in profile.

Female portraits in the form of artistic miniatures.

Portraits of Natalia Goncharova.

Self-portraits of Pushkin during his stay in the Caucasus.

Drawing of Pushkin on a horse with a pike and in a burka.

Pushkin's drawing on the page of the manuscript "Journey to Arzrum".

Paintings with images of streets and buildings of ancient Moscow.

Picturesque portraits of the Ushakov sisters.

Drawings and self-portraits of Pushkin in the Ushakov Album.

An employee of the Pushkin house and Zhukov talk about the most replicated portrait of Pushkin (synchronously and behind the scenes), Pushkin's self-portrait in profile.

A recently discovered cartoon self-portrait of Pushkin, made in a draft.

Discussion of the features of Pushkin's self-portraits (synchronously).

The appearance of another self-portrait of Pushkin on the page of the manuscript (animation).

Calendar: 1997

Locations: Pskov region [797]

Seasons: Summer [824]

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Pushkin figurine in a moving carriage (animation).

Yellow leaves on the ground in a park in Boldino.

S. Denisenko talks about one of Pushkin's self-portraits, about Pushkin's life in Boldino and the works he created, talks about Pushkin's creation of illustrations for the story "The Undertaker", talks about the characters of one of the illustrations, reveals the meaning of Pushkin's illustrations for the story (synchronously and behind the scenes), sheets of Pushkin's manuscripts with texts and drawings on the table.

Pushkin's drawings on the pages of the manuscript of the story "The Undertaker".

Pages of the manuscript of the story with drawings by Pushkin.

The appearance of N.N. Goncharova's profiles next to Pushkin's profiles on the pages of manuscripts (animation).

Self-portraits of Pushkin in profile.

Portrait of N.N. Goncharova.

Graphic color portrait of Pushkin.

Portrait of Goncharova, painted by Pushkin, the appearance of a portrait of Pushkin next to it (animation).

Portraits of Goncharova painted by Pushkin.

Sculpture in Tsarskoye Selo Park.

Panorama of a part of Tsarskoye Selo Park.

Sculptures in the park.

View of the building of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.

Pushkin's self-portraits of the early 1830s.

Denisenko talks about Pushkin's self-portraits found on the pages of his manuscripts, talks about Pushkin's last self-portrait in February 1836, analyzes the figures of monetary calculations over the portrait, talks about Pushkin's mood at the time of the appearance of the self-portrait (synchronously and off-screen), Pushkin's self-portraits in various images.

The last self-portrait of Pushkin in the margins of the manuscript.

The appearance on paper of Pushkin's last self-portrait (animation).

Self-portraits and drawings of Pushkin on the pages of his manuscripts of different years.

The appearance of Pushkin's self-portrait on paper (animation).

Calendar: 1997

Locations: Nizhny Novgorod region [790]

Seasons: Autumn [826]

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