Victor Astafiev (1984)

Views of the forest.

Writer Viktor Astafyev opens the shutters of a wooden house.

A plywood star on the gate, the face of an elderly woman.

A panorama of a part of the village of Ovsyanka, a local resident stands at the gate.

A window of a house, a girl playing the violin in a room outside the window, the face of a woman behind the window glass, a panorama of part of the buildings in the yard, a burning lantern on a pole.

The face of a boy in a fur hat with earflaps. V. Astafyev at his desk.

Apples in the snow (panorama).

Views of the village of Ovsyanka in winter.

Rowan berries on a branch.

During a meeting with schoolchildren, Astafyev discusses his return to Siberia, speaks about the closeness to his "small homeland" (synchronously and off-screen), the faces of the schoolchildren.

At the request of one of the students, Astafyev talks about his school teacher Ignatius Dmitrievich Rozhdestvensky (synchronously and off-screen), the faces of the schoolchildren and teachers listening to the writer.

Astafyev answers a question from a local police officer, says that he has no criminal record, has never embezzled, and has no criminal record, recalls his homeless childhood in the 1930s, condemns theft (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the meeting participants.

Astafyev answers a girl's question about remorse (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the meeting participants.

The girl's face.

Astafyev's face, his story about his life is heard off-screen.

View of a school class during a meeting with Astafyev.

Astafyev in the front seat of a car next to the driver, a woman "hitchhiking" on the road.

Winter forest landscape (panorama).

Children riding a yard carousel.

Children playing snowballs by the fence.

A boy's face.

Astafyev goes to his grandmother's grave with a rowan branch in his hand.

Astafyev approaches the grave, takes off his hat.

Astafyev at his grandmother's grave.

Trunks of pine trees reaching into the sky (circular panorama), trunk of a fallen pine tree.

Spring Siberian forest landscape.

Hands of the writer, painting on the wall.

Astafyev and his wife, Maria Semenovna, sorting through papers in the writer's office.

Astafyev's wife at the typewriter.

Maria Semenovna sorts through the sheets of Astafyev's manuscript.

Astafyev at the desk.

Viktor Astafyev at his desk discusses the writer's work and reads an excerpt from a new work (synchronously).

Still life with berries, with Astafyev's story about himself and his work heard in the background.

Panorama of a part of a birch forest, Astafyev and his wife Maria Semyonovna walking along a path, with M.S. Astafieva's thoughts about the fate of the writer's wife heard in the background. M.S. Astafieva continues her story while sitting in the back seat of a car (synchronously and off-screen).

A boat on a river, a Siberian river landscape.

Siberian landscapes outside the car window, views of coastal settlements.

Students of the railway school greet Astafyev with applause before the meeting.

Astafyev is presented with a uniform headdress and a bouquet of flowers.

Astafyev sits down and thanks for the gift, begins a story about his work as a railway worker (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the meeting participants.

Astafyev answers a question about his childhood, talks about the first impression he received from a film he watched as a child (synchronously).

Astafyev answers questions about the theme of youth and modern life in his work, about the complexity of writing, about good nature as the closest trait of the Russian character to him, about the war (synchronously and behind the scenes), students listen to the writer.

Farewell to conscripts from the village of Ovsyanka to the army, winter rural landscape (panorama), conscripts say goodbye to their parents.

Conscripts board a bus.

The face of a veteran seeing his grandson off.

A conscript waves back from the bus, a view from the rear window of the bus.

Books on the windowsill in the writer's house, a manuscript on the table by the window.

A box with Astafyev's military awards.

A photograph of M.S. Astafyeva with her comrades in arms from the period of the Great Patriotic War. M.S. Astafyeva in the corner of the room at the typewriter, a panorama of the writer's study, the interior of the study.

The face of Astafyev playing with his grandson.

The face of one of Astafyev's grandchildren.

A photograph of Astafyev next to his book, a spoon in a jar of jam, photographs and books on the shelves (panorama).

Astafyev on the TV screen. M.S. Astafyeva doing needlework.

The face of Astafyev signing a copy of one of his books.

A painting of a rural landscape.

Astafyev discusses the themes of Western literature and art, speaks about the materiality of the artist's thought (synchronously and off-screen).

Grass growing through stones - Siberian flora.

Panorama of a part of the autumn forest.

Flora and fauna of Siberian forests.

Owl on a branch.

Boy's face.

Spring forest landscape (panorama, from above).

Half-submerged logs by the river bank, view of a part of the river.

A woman rinses laundry by the river bank.

Everyday life in the village of Ovsyanka, views of the village.

A woodpile with chopped firewood, Astafyev in the yard of the house helps his wife salt cabbage.

Astafyev talks with his fellow countrymen.

Elderly women pick berries from a tree branch.

Flowers on the windowsill behind the window glass.

A man chops firewood in the yard of the house, people come into the house.

View of the yard of one of the houses.

Faces of singing elderly women (panorama).

Sugar in a sugar bowl on the table.

Cover of Astafyev's book "Tsar-fish", a fragment of text from the book.

Astafyev at his desk reads an excerpt from his work (synchronously).

Winter rural landscape, a woman carries buckets of water from the river on a yoke.

Photos of Astafyev in different years among his relatives and during the Great Patriotic War.

Birches in a winter meadow, Siberian landscape, view of a part of the river (from above).