Russia is leaving (1999)

Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni sits at a table, gives an interview.

Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe speaks.

General shot - the writer and a reporter sit at a table on the veranda.

Kenzaburo Oe speaks.

Contemporary newsreel of different foreign countries - young people dancing rock and roll in the square, a Japanese home appliance and electrical goods store, film critic Callisto Kozulich from Italy is in the frame.

Foreign newsreel - stunt performances, stunts with cars, on motorcycles, firefighters pull a man out of a fire, in the frame - singer Jim Morrison with half-naked girls, a rock concert, young people at concerts, Morrison sits on the ground, a drug addict's hands with traces of injections, an artificial shark jumps out of the water, young people at a concert, different models, beauty contests, parties, events, etc.

Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks.

Russia, dawn, panorama of a river, horizon, floating boat.

Lake, view of the island.

Various shots of Lake Ladoga, view of the rocky shores, a sailboat on the water, etc.

Panorama of the lake, the shore, a boat by the water.

Forest, clearing, an Orthodox church is visible in the distance.

Panorama of the ruined interiors of an old church that once belonged to a monastic hermitage.

A hermit monk in a church, showing things, walking with a burning church candle in his hands.

On the bench there are jars with blanks, tools, books, a panorama of the church premises, burning candles, a monk, near the iconostasis, reading prayers.

View of an old, dilapidated church.

A hermit monk is speaking.

The monk is blowing on the fire, warming a kettle on the grate, answering the correspondent's questions.

Panorama of the lake, island, stormy sky (shot from movement, from the water).

View of the river, a small tree bends in the wind on a high bank.

Siberia, the Yenisei River, various shots.

Panorama of the river, the village of Ovsyanovka (shot from above).

View of the tops of coniferous trees, roofs of village houses.

The village house of the writer Viktor Astafyev.

Astafyev lights the stove, tears up old magazines, answers the correspondent's questions.

View of the Yenisei, the bank, hills, mountains.

Astafyev throws wood into the stove, talks to the correspondent.

Chronicle 1990-1991 - people at rallies, tearing out a flag, a crowd on Palace Square in St.

Petersburg.

Pulkovo Observatory, a large telescope in the frame.

Academician Viktor Abalkin sits at the table in his office, answering the correspondent's questions.

View of the domes of the Pulkovo Observatory.

The central building of the observatory.

Abalkin speaking.

View of the observatory grounds - a huge receiver dish and solar panels in the frame.

A small river, a woman with a watering can walking across a field.

Vegetable gardens next to the observatory - greenhouses, beds, men harvesting.

A woman watering the beds, a panorama of yellow wild flowers.

Abalkin speaking.

On the computer screen is a video from Boris Yeltsin's election campaign, where he dances on stage with artists (1996).

Academician Dmitry Likhachev speaking.

A woman plays the violin in a passageway, people walk by.

City streets, traffic, pedestrians, outdoor advertising.

St.

Petersburg, Nevsky Prospect.

Panorama of the Alexandrinsky Theater building.

Theater, auditorium, people applauding, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, chairwoman of the jury of the international ballet competition "Maya", walking along the audience seats.

Plisetskaya is at a table, talking to people, examining diplomas.

On the stage are young ballet dancers with flowers, in the back of the stage, members of the jury are sitting on chairs.

Maya Plisetskaya speaking.

A ballerina with a tambourine is dancing on the stage.

Maya Plisetskaya is speaking.

A competition, a stage, the jury members are applauding, Maya Plisetskaya is standing with flowers, the curtain is closing.

Rain, city streets, people with umbrellas, the frame shows street advertising, traffic.

A man is playing the trombone in the street, passers-by are walking by in the rain.

Various city scenes - a girl with an umbrella, two men are walking along the alley of the park, a panorama of the Pushkin monument in Pushkin Square in St.

Petersburg.

A theater, composer Rodion Shchedrin gets up from his chair and bows, the audience applauds.

An evening city, a stream of cars, traffic jams, illumination, etc.

The frame shows a modern sculpture - a figure of a woman.

Shchedrin is walking in the park near St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Shchedrin is on a bench in the park, answering questions.

The frame shows the authors of the film asking the composer questions.

Shchedrin speaking.

Griboyedov Canal, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, pleasure boats with tourists sailing along the canal.

Tourists on the streets.

A homeless street musician plays the button accordion, a panorama of the street.

Three elderly women singing in the street.

People in the underpass.

Writer Viktor Astafyev sitting in the garden at a table.

View of the Yenisei, a rocky bank, roofs of village houses (shot from above).

Viktor Astafyev speaking.

View of the Yenisei.

The river bank, a village house, a fence.

Astafyev stokes the stove, tears old magazines for kindling, continues speaking.

A guy comes out of the gate of the house onto the village street.

The man daringly holds nets in his hands, goes down to the river.

In the frame - an old woman in a headscarf.

Village street - people walking along the road.

Likhachev speaking.

Winter, snow, a village - women walking along the road.

Kizhi Museum-Reserve - view of wooden churches (top view, panoramic shot).

Wooden church, a male figure in a cassock walking along the road.

Two women in the church by the window, talking.

Rector of the church in Kizhi Nikolai Ozolin inside the church.

Women in headscarves walk along the walls of the museum-reserve.

Close-up - a censer is smoking, panorama - a church book in the hands of the priest.

Rector Ozolin crosses himself, reads a prayer.

A service is taking place in the church.

The frame shows the faces of the parishioners.

Rector Ozolin conducts a service.

Panorama of the Kizhi Museum-Reserve (shot from above).

Rector of the church in Kizhi Nikolai Ozolin is speaking.

Women in headscarves walk along the road, past wooden houses.

Panorama of the Kizhi Museum-Reserve (shot from above).

St.

Petersburg, evening, sunset sun, view of the embankment, bridge, sculptures in the frame.

The frame shows the bells on the bell tower.

View of the Birzhevoy Bridge in St.

Petersburg, panorama of the Neva, embankment, etc.

Halls of the Hermitage.

Painting "Madonna Litta" by Leonardo da Vinci.

Sphinx on the embankment.

A group of young people on the steps of the embankment listen to Shmelev's lecture.

In the frame - architect Igor Shmelev.

Shmelev walks through the halls of the Hermitage.

In the frame - Egyptian reliefs, an image of the cover of the book "The Pharaoh's Architect" appears.

Various images of Egyptian reliefs and their analysis.

In the frame - various ancient drawings.

Lion Bridge in St.

Petersburg, Shmelev walking along the bridge with a group of students.

Shmelev in the building of the Art and Industry Academy.

Shmelev in the classroom - working with modular cubes, together with the students.

Shmelev speaking.

Shmelev giving a lecture to students.

Students' faces.

Students disassembling modular cubes.

The setting sun, the sky, figures made of cubes appear.

Rudolf Nureyev is speaking.

The stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, ballet dancers taking a bow, the audience applauding, Nureyev is given flowers, he and the soloist go out to take a bow.

The Yenisei, a small tree bending in the wind on the high bank.

A view of the church, roofs of village houses.

Actor Oleg Tabakov visiting Astafyev (they are sitting at a set table).

Tabakov is speaking.

Tabakov and Astafyev are sitting at the table, talking.

Close-up - a table, vegetables, snacks, vodka being poured into a glass.

Tabakov and Astafyev clink glasses, drink.

Tabakov and Astafyev are joking, talking, discussing, etc.

The kitchen in Astafyev's house - the owner of the house and Tabakov are getting dressed, leaving.

A still from the film with Lyubov Orlova.

Poster of the festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", people near the cinema building, a cameraman with a camera.

Nevsky Prospect.

Panorama of the building of the Alexandrinsky Theater, a banner "One Hundred Years of Russian Cinema" hangs.

People with banners and slogans are standing near the theater building (Leningrad filmmakers are on strike).

Spectators, participants of the film festival enter the building, people with banners and posters are standing nearby.

On stage - a theatrical performance dedicated to the opening of the festival.

Actress Lyudmila Chursina is speaking.

Festival, actors Lyudmila Chursina, Igor Gorbachev, Evgeny Lebedev enter the stage.

In the frame are famous Soviet and Russian actors and film figures (sitting on the stage) - Vladimir Menshov, Pyotr Velyaminov, Sergei Yursky and others.

Actors Mikhail Gluzsky, Lidiya Smirnova, Rolan Bykov enter the stage.

Unveiling of a memorial plaque dedicated to the Aquarium cinema, which hosted the first film screening in Russia - a crowd of people, photographers, camera operators with cameras, applauding.

On stage, actresses are dancing the cancan.

A cook is cutting a huge cake.

Cancan on stage.

Cinema hall, a film projector is working, footage from a silent film is being shown.

Actor and director Roland Bykov is speaking.

Close-up - a smoking cigarette in an ashtray.

Bykov is speaking.

Yenisei, a motorboat is sailing.

Viktor Astafyev is speaking.

Ladoga, a boat by the shore, a hermit is standing on the rocks - he is crossing the departing film crew.

Beautiful view - lake, forest, shore.

The camera moves to the shore - an old dilapidated church is visible in the frame.

The hermit is by the fire, talking to the creators of the film.

The hermit is near the old dilapidated church, goes inside, a panorama of the church.

A figure is climbing up the stairs.

A figure on the stairs, at the very top of the church, near the dome.

View of the church at sunset.

Sunset landscape - a river, a red sun on the horizon, a boat sailing, lightning appearing in the sky.