Dmitry Shostakovich. Viola Sonata (1981)

Photograph of D. Shostakovich as a child with his mother.

The pendulum of a clock swings.

Fragments of embroidery.

Fragment of the score of "Viola Sonata".

Shostakovich at his desk.

Fragments of a rehearsal of Shostakovich's opera "The Nose" on the TV screen.

Photo portraits of Shostakovich.

Photograph of Shostakovich as a child with his parents.

Portraits of Shostakovich's father and mother.

Photographs of Shostakovich as a child with his mother and sisters.

Photograph of Dima Shostakovich in a sailor suit.

Newsreel: people on the streets of St.

Petersburg in the early 20th century.

Trade at the market.

Photograph of the building of the St.

Petersburg Conservatory in 1919. Photograph of Shostakovich at the age of 13. Photographs of the director of the conservatory Glazunov and the conservatory teachers.

Photographs of Shostakovich among students and teachers, portraits of Shostakovich during his studies at the conservatory.

Certificate of Shostakovich's graduation from the Leningrad Conservatory's composition and piano departments.

Movie poster with Shostakovich's name as a pianist.

Profile silhouette of Shostakovich.

Newsreel from the mid-1920s: a man's face.

Movie box office sign with ticket prices.

People buying tickets for a movie show.

A projectionist loading film into a projector, the projectionist's face.

The movie projector mechanism is rotating.

Spectators in the auditorium.

Drunks on village streets.

People leaving a church, a drunk standing in the street.

A public celebration, people pouring vodka into glasses during a picnic.

The tail of a seaplane taking off.

Children riding a tandem bicycle.

Cyclists riding along the boulevards.

Raising the sails on small yachts before the start of a sailing trip.

The ceremonial launching of the yachts.

Athletes before the start of a diving competition.

An athlete jumping from a tower.

A fairground carousel spins.

Children and adults riding the carousel.

People on the Ferris wheel ride.

People on carousels and swings.

A photograph of Nina Varzar, Shostakovich's first wife.

A photo portrait of Shostakovich in his youth, in 1926. A photograph of the composer Glazunov.

A photograph of the Philharmonic building, where Shostakovich's First Symphony was performed.

A photograph of Shostakovich with Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky.

Poster of the author's concert of Shebalin and Shostakovich.

Photographs of Shebalin and Shostakovich, photographs of Shostakovich with his wife and children.

Newsreel: railway signals.

A locomotive stops.

View of an old building in Warsaw in 1927. Photographs of Shostakovich in Warsaw among the participants of the First International Chopin Piano Competition.

Photograph of Lev Oborin, who received first prize at the competition.

Shostakovich's name is on the list of honorary diploma winners of the competition.

Photograph of Shostakovich among the diploma winners of the competition.

Newsreel: the Ferris wheel ride is spinning.

Car headlights illuminate the road, cabbies turn, people make way.

A horse-drawn carriage with a passenger passes.

Artists dance the hopak on the restaurant stage.

Restaurant patrons at tables.

People drink and have a snack, the restaurant singer performs from the stage.

Photographs of Shostakovich with his wife in 1932. An open window of a country house.

The interior of the study at Shostakovich's dacha in 1975, a telephone on the table.

View of Shostakovich's dacha.

Newsreel: new tenants carry furniture into the entrance hall, older children help to set up beds.

People in the communal kitchen.

Photograph of the building of the new Moscow-Narva House of Workers' Culture in Leningrad in 1929. Photographs of the scenery for Shostakovich's opera "The Nose", scenes from the opera and the auditorium.

Newsreel: people leave the auditorium after the performance, alternating with photographs of the auditorium and the faces of the spectators.

Construction of industrial enterprises in the USSR during the First Five-Year Plan.

Carrying out excavation work, removing soil in wheelbarrows.

View of part of the construction.

Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V. Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M. during a rally.

Stalin's face, dancing builders.

Budyonny S.M. on horseback in the arena posing for an artist's portrait.

Budyonny talking to the artist, holding his horse by the bridle.

Portrait of Budyonny on horseback.

The face of Michurin examining apple tree branches.

Poster for the premiere of Shostakovich's ballet "The Golden Age" at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Photographs of scenes from the performance, the performers of the leading roles in make-up.

Newsreel: May Day parade on Palace Square in Leningrad, columns of athletes pass by.

Zhdanov A.A. on the tribune.

Columns of athletes enter the square.

Children pass by with mock rifles.

Participants in the celebration carry a ring with boxers.

Zhdanov applauds the participants in the celebration, the participants pretend to be a warship.

A swimming pool at the parade.

Young men with tennis rackets pass by.

Newsreel of revolutionary events in Petrograd, alternating with fragments of feature films.

Fragments of the physical culture parade in Leningrad in the second half of the 1930s, Zhdanov and the leaders of Leningrad and the region applaud the participants in the celebration from the tribune.

Theatrical costumes during airing in the theatre courtyard.

The pendulum of the clock swings.

A chandelier at Shostakovich's dacha.

A panorama of a part of the interior of a room at Shostakovich's dacha.

A panorama of a stone fence and a view of Shostakovich's dacha.

An open window.

A photograph of Shostakovich as a child.

Newsreel: a burning building in Leningrad in the summer of 1941. Women and children run to a bomb shelter.

Coffins with the bodies of the dead being carried out of a house.

People follow a truck carrying coffins to a cemetery.

Zhdanov in his office during the siege of Leningrad.

Battalions of the people's militia march along one of the streets of Leningrad, wives see their husbands off.

Shostakovich composing the "Leningrad Symphony" at the piano.

Lines of the symphony score.

People walk to a train during evacuation, a panorama of the platform.

Soldiers and commanders of the Red Army say goodbye to their relatives leaving for evacuation.

A train departs from the platform.

A German bomber in flight.

People build defensive fortifications.

An anti-aircraft gunner turns the horizontal aiming handles.

Shostakovich composes music, works on the score.

An orator speaks from the rostrum.

Actress Tamara Aleshina addresses girls with an appeal to go to the front (synchronously).

Views of the assembly hall, girls' faces.

The participants of the assembly applaud at the end of the speech, shout out slogans.

Female first aid workers march along the streets of Leningrad, Aleshina among them.

Shostakovich working on the score.

The crew loads an anti-aircraft gun.

Firing at air targets.

Pupils of a factory school in a column.

Demonstration of bayonet fighting techniques during one of the physical education parades on Palace Square in the mid-1930s, fragments of the sports festival.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect in the winter of 1941 (above).

Clearing the street of snow and ice.

Soldiers on the street lift a woman exhausted from hunger.

Shostakovich delivers a speech from the podium about the role of art workers in the fight against fascism (synchronously).

Photograph of Shostakovich and Sollertinsky.

Photograph of Shostakovich and conductor E. Mravinsky.

The latest issue of the wall newspaper "Soviet Philharmonic Player" with a greeting to Shostakovich.

Newsreel: people on the streets of Moscow in 1944-1945. A trolleybus passes.

Photograph of V. Shebalin talking on the phone.

Shostakovich walks along the street of Moscow, looking at shop windows.

Photographs of professors and students of the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories.

Photographs of Shostakovich on vacation and at work.

Photograph of Shebalin.

Photographs of Shostakovich with Sollertinsky.

Photographs of Sollertinsky's widow.

Photograph of Shostakovich at Sollertinsky's grave.

Tombstone at Sollertinsky's grave.

Newsreel: clearing the rubble of destroyed buildings in Leningrad during the restoration of the city.

Women with shovels and stretchers go to a clean-up day.

A steam locomotive tows tram cars.

Leningraders work on clearing the rubble.

Panorama of ruins, artists painting a portrait of Stalin nearby.

Photograph by Academician Asafyev.

Newsreel: clearing the rubble of wrecked railway and motor vehicles.

Repairing a steam locomotive.

People work on the restoration of industrial enterprises in Leningrad.

Removing an unexploded aerial bomb.

Explosion of the remains of a destroyed house.

Michurin's face.

Photographs of composer Dunaevsky, Shostakovich, director of the Moscow Conservatory Shebalin, professor Shestakov.

Text of the order of the Leningrad Conservatory on the dismissal of Shostakovich from his post.

Newsreel: the floodgates open.

A view of one of Moscow's new high-rise buildings.

The Alexandrov Choir on stage.

Shostakovich's face sitting in the audience.

Shostakovich accepting congratulations on his 50th birthday in 1956, view of the audience hall at the anniversary event.

Photographs of Shostakovich and his wife.

The graves of Shostakovich and his wife.

Newsreel: Shostakovich accepting congratulations at a gala evening in honor of his 50th birthday.

Mravinsky at the conductor's stand.

Views of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory during a performance of Shostakovich's works.

People in the audience applaud conductor Bernstein.

Shostakovich embraces Bernstein, thanks him for a magnificent performance.

The Lenin Prize award ceremony in 1958. Shostakovich's face.

A photograph of Shostakovich at the coffin of Sergei Prokofiev.

Presentation of the Lenin Prize to Shostakovich.

Shostakovich makes a speech.

Shostakovich accepts congratulations.

Shostakovich's laureate diploma.

Shostakovich at the piano.

Lenin Prize laureates listen to Shostakovich play.

Portrait of Shostakovich.

Street views of Paris at night.

Photographs of Shostakovich.

Shostakovich at the piano performing one of his concerts in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, portrait of Shostakovich.

View of the Great Hall of the Conservatory.

Shostakovich thanks the conductor and musicians at the end of the performance.

Photographs of Shostakovich.

Shostakovich's face, landscapes outside the train car window.

Portrait of Shebalin in a mourning frame.

Shebalin at the piano.

View from the window of Shostakovich's dacha.

Photograph of Shostakovich at his dacha.

Photograph of violinist D. Oistrakh.

Views of Shostakovich's dacha, a telephone conversation between Shostakovich and Oistrakh is heard in the background (synchronously).

Photographs of Shostakovich's meeting with Anna Akhmatova at his dacha.

Newsreel: Anna Akhmatova's funeral in 1966. Farewell to Akhmatova's body, Akhmatova in a coffin.

The coffin with Akhmatova's body is carried to the grave.

The coffin is lowered into the grave.

View of Akhmatova's grave, decorated with funeral wreaths.

The back staircase of the Moscow Chamber Theatre.

Views and panorama of the auditorium.

Photographs of Shostakovich with his wife Irina Antonovna.

Photographs of Shostakovich from different years.

Costumes in the theatre's wardrobe.

Fragments of Shostakovich's opera "The Nose", photographs of the composer.

Shostakovich's armchair and slippers.

A clock pendulum.

A drip on a stand.

Resuscitation equipment in operation.

The walls of the intensive care unit.

A view through an open window.

A panorama of part of the interior of Shostakovich's office at his dacha.

Masons at a construction site.

A photograph of Shostakovich as a child.

A bed in a hospital ward.

A photograph of Shostakovich in a coffin.

Reflection of trees in water, a recording of a telephone conversation between Shostakovich and D. Oistrakh is heard in the background (synchronously).

Shostakovich's grave.

Photograph of D. Shostakovich as a child with his mother.

The pendulum of a clock swings.

Fragments of embroidery.

Fragment of the score of "Viola Sonata".

Shostakovich at his desk.

Fragments of a rehearsal of Shostakovich's opera "The Nose" on the TV screen.

Photo portraits of Shostakovich.

Photograph of Shostakovich as a child with his parents.

Portraits of Shostakovich's father and mother.

Photographs of Shostakovich as a child with his mother and sisters.

Photograph of Dima Shostakovich in a sailor suit.

Newsreel: people on the streets of St.

Petersburg in the early 20th century.

Trade at the market.

Photograph of the building of the St.

Petersburg Conservatory in 1919. Photograph of Shostakovich at the age of 13. Photographs of the director of the conservatory Glazunov and the conservatory teachers.

Photographs of Shostakovich among students and teachers, portraits of Shostakovich during his studies at the conservatory.

Certificate of Shostakovich's graduation from the composer and piano departments of the Leningrad Conservatory.

Poster of a feature film with Shostakovich's name as a pianist.

Profile silhouette of Shostakovich.

Newsreel from the mid-1920s: a man's face.

Sign of a movie box office with ticket prices.

People buying tickets for a movie show.

A projectionist loading film into a projector, the projectionist's face.

The mechanism of the movie projector is rotating.

Spectators in the hall.

A feature film on the screen, the face of one of the spectators smoking a cigarette during the show.

Fragments of feature films, faces of spectators, the mechanism of the projector is rotating.

Drunk people on village streets.

People leaving a church, a drunk standing on the street.

A folk festival, people pouring vodka into glasses during a picnic.

The tail of a seaplane taking off.

Children riding a tandem bicycle.

Cyclists riding along the boulevards.

Raising the sails on small yachts before the start of a sailing trip.

Ceremonial launching of yachts.

Athletes before the start of a diving competition.

An athlete jumping from a diving board.

A fairground carousel spinning.

Children and adults riding the carousel.

People on the Ferris wheel ride.

People on carousels and swings.

Photograph of Nina Varzar, Shostakovich's first wife.

Photo portrait of Shostakovich in his youth, in 1926. Photograph of the composer Glazunov.

Photograph of the Philharmonic building where Shostakovich's First Symphony was performed.

Photograph of Shostakovich with Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky.

Poster for the author's concert of Shebalin and Shostakovich.

Photographs of Shebalin and Shostakovich, photographs of Shostakovich with his wife and children.

Newsreel: railway semaphores.

A steam locomotive stopping.

View of an old building in Warsaw in 1927. Photographs of Shostakovich in Warsaw among the participants of the First International Chopin Piano Competition.

Photograph of Lev Oborin, who received first prize at the competition.

Shostakovich's name is on the list of honorary diploma winners of the competition.

Photograph of Shostakovich among the diploma winners of the competition.

Newsreel: the Ferris wheel ride is spinning.

Car headlights illuminate the road, cabbies turn, people make way.

A horse-drawn carriage with a passenger passes by.

Artists dance the hopak on the restaurant stage.

Restaurant patrons are at tables.

People are drinking and having a snack, a restaurant singer is performing on the stage.

Photographs of Shostakovich with his wife in 1932. An open window of a country house.

The interior of the study at Shostakovich's dacha in 1975, a telephone on the table.

View of Shostakovich's dacha.

Newsreel: new tenants are bringing furniture into the entrance, older children are helping to set up beds.

People in a communal kitchen.

Photograph of the building of the new Moscow-Narva House of Workers' Culture in Leningrad in 1929. Photographs of the scenery for Shostakovich's opera "The Nose", scenes from the opera and the auditorium.

Newsreel: people leaving the auditorium after the performance, interspersed with photographs of the auditorium and the faces of the spectators.

Construction of industrial enterprises in the USSR during the First Five-Year Plan.

Excavation work, removal of soil in wheelbarrows.

View of a part of the construction.

Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V. Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M. during a rally.

Stalin's face, dancing builders.

Budyonny S.M. on horseback in the arena posing for an artist's portrait.

Budyonny talking to the artist, holding his horse by the bridle.

Portrait of Budyonny on horseback.

The face of Michurin examining apple tree branches.

Poster of the premiere of Shostakovich's ballet "The Golden Age" at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Photographs of the performance scenes, the performers of the leading roles in makeup.

Newsreel: May Day parade on Palace Square in Leningrad, columns of athletes pass by.

Zhdanov A.A. on the stands.

Columns of athletes come out onto the square.

Children pass by with models of rifles.

Participants of the holiday carry a ring with boxers.

Zhdanov applauds the participants of the holiday, the participants of the holiday pretend to be a warship.

Swimming pool at the parade.

Young men with tennis rackets pass by.

Newsreel of the revolutionary events in Petrograd, alternating with fragments of feature films.

Fragments of the physical culture parade in Leningrad in the second half of the 1930s, Zhdanov and the leaders of Leningrad and the region applaud the participants of the holiday from the stands.

Theatrical costumes during airing in the courtyard of the theater.

The pendulum of the clock swings.

A chandelier at Shostakovich's dacha.

A panorama of a part of the interior of a room at Shostakovich's dacha.

A panorama of a stone fence and a view of Shostakovich's dacha.

An open window.

A photograph of Shostakovich as a child.

Newsreel: a burning building in Leningrad in the summer of 1941. Women and children run to a bomb shelter.

Coffins with the bodies of the dead being carried out of a house.

People follow a truck carrying coffins to a cemetery.

Zhdanov in his office during the siege of Leningrad.

Battalions of the people's militia march along one of the streets of Leningrad, wives see their husbands off.

Shostakovich composing the "Leningrad Symphony" at the piano.

Lines of the symphony score.

People walk to a train during evacuation, a panorama of the platform.

Soldiers and commanders of the Red Army say goodbye to their relatives leaving for evacuation.

A train departs from the platform.

A German bomber in flight.

People build defensive fortifications.

An anti-aircraft gunner turns the horizontal aiming handles.

Shostakovich composes music, works on the score.

An orator speaks from the rostrum.

Actress Tamara Aleshina addresses girls with an appeal to go to the front (synchronously).

Views of the assembly hall, girls' faces.

The participants of the assembly applaud at the end of the speech, shout out slogans.

Female first aid workers march along the streets of Leningrad, Aleshina among them.

Shostakovich working on the score.

The crew loads an anti-aircraft gun.

Firing at air targets.

Pupils of a factory school in a column.

Demonstration of bayonet fighting techniques during one of the physical education parades on Palace Square in the mid-1930s, fragments of the sports festival.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect in the winter of 1941 (above).

Clearing the street of snow and ice.

Soldiers on the street lift a woman exhausted from hunger.

Shostakovich delivers a speech from the podium about the role of art workers in the fight against fascism (synchronously).

Photograph of Shostakovich and Sollertinsky.

Photograph of Shostakovich and conductor E. Mravinsky.

The next issue of the wall newspaper "Soviet Philharmonic Player" with greetings to Shostakovich.

Newsreel: people on the streets of Moscow in 1944-1945. A trolleybus passes.

Photograph of V. Shebalin talking on the telephone.

Shostakovich walks along a Moscow street, looking at shop windows.

Photographs of professors and students of the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories.

Photographs of Shostakovich at rest and at work.

Photograph of Shebalin.

Photographs of Shostakovich with Sollertinsky.

Photographs of Sollertinsky's widow.

Photograph of Shostakovich at Sollertinsky's grave.

Tombstone at Sollertinsky's grave.

Newsreel: clearing rubble from destroyed buildings in Leningrad during the city's restoration.

Women with shovels and stretchers go to a clean-up day.

A steam locomotive tows tram cars.

Leningraders work to clear rubble.

Panorama of ruins, with artists painting Stalin's portrait nearby.

Photograph of Academician Asafyev.

Newsreel: clearing rubble from wrecked railway and motor vehicles.

Repairing a steam locomotive.

People work to restore industrial enterprises in Leningrad.

Removing an unexploded aerial bomb.

Explosion of the remains of a destroyed house.

Michurin's face.

Photographs of composer Dunaevsky, Shostakovich, director of the Moscow Conservatory Shebalin, and professor Shestakov.

Text of the order issued by the Leningrad Conservatory to dismiss Shostakovich from his post.

Newsreel: the gates of the sluice opening.

View of one of the new high-rise buildings in Moscow.

The Alexandrov Ensemble Choir on stage.

Shostakovich's face sitting in the audience.

Shostakovich accepting congratulations on his 50th birthday in 1956, view of the audience at the anniversary event.

Photographs of Shostakovich and his wife.

The graves of Shostakovich and his wife.

Newsreel: Shostakovich accepting congratulations at a gala evening in honor of his 50th birthday.

Mravinsky at the conductor's stand.

Views of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory during a performance of Shostakovich's works.

People in the audience applaud conductor Bernstein.

Shostakovich embraces Bernstein, thanks him for his magnificent performance.

The Lenin Prize award ceremony in 1958. Shostakovich's face.

Photograph of Shostakovich at the coffin of Sergei Prokofiev.

Presentation of the Lenin Prize to Shostakovich.

Shostakovich giving a speech.

Shostakovich accepts congratulations.

Shostakovich's laureate diploma.

Shostakovich at the piano.

Lenin Prize laureates listen to Shostakovich play.

Portrait of Shostakovich.

Views of Paris streets at night.

Photographs of Shostakovich.

Shostakovich at the piano performing one of his concerts in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, portrait of Shostakovich.

View of the Great Hall of the Conservatory.

Shostakovich thanks the conductor and musicians at the end of the performance.

Photographs of Shostakovich.

Shostakovich's face, landscapes outside the train car window.

Portrait of Shebalin in a mourning frame.

Shebalin at the piano.

View from the window of Shostakovich's dacha.

Photograph of Shostakovich at his dacha.

Photograph of violinist D. Oistrakh.

Views of Shostakovich's dacha, a telephone conversation between Shostakovich and Oistrakh is heard in the background (synchronously).

Photographs of Shostakovich meeting Anna Akhmatova at his dacha.

Newsreel: Anna Akhmatova's funeral in 1966. Farewell to Akhmatova's body, Akhmatova in the coffin.

The coffin with Akhmatova's body is carried to the grave.

The coffin is lowered into the grave.

View of Akhmatova's grave, decorated with funeral wreaths.

The back staircase of the Moscow Chamber Theatre.

Views and panorama of the auditorium.

Photographs of Shostakovich with his wife Irina Antonovna.

Photographs of Shostakovich from different years.

Costumes in the theatre wardrobe.

Fragments of Shostakovich's opera "The Nose", photographs of the composer.

Shostakovich's armchair and slippers.

The pendulum of the clock.

An IV drip on a tripod.

Resuscitation equipment in operation.

The walls of the intensive care unit.

View through an open window.

Panorama of part of the interior of Shostakovich's office at the dacha.

Masons at a construction site.

Photograph of Shostakovich as a child.

A hospital bed.

Photograph of Shostakovich in a coffin.

Reflection of trees in water, a recording of a telephone conversation between Shostakovich and D. Oistrakh is heard in the background (synchronously).

Shostakovich's grave.