Maxim Gorky. The Last Years (1967)

Newsreel from the 1930s: the face of A.M. Gorky.

Buglers give a signal.

View of the Bolshoi Theatre hall during a ceremonial meeting in honor of the 40th anniversary of Gorky's literary activity.

Gorky among members of the presidium.

Participants of the meeting and members of the presidium applaud.

Miners, sailors, athletes speak with congratulations.

Gorky speaks with words of gratitude.

Representatives of the union republics of Central Asia enter the hall.

One of the representatives speaks from the rostrum.

Gorky's face.

Workers with a model of the Maxim Gorky airplane in their hands stand on the stage, workers' faces.

Collection of signatures for the construction of the Maxim Gorky airplane.

Workers, doctors, military personnel, pioneers and schoolchildren sign and contribute money for the construction of the airplane.

Views of the workshop and the airplane under construction at the TsAGI plant, the process of assembling units and assemblies.

The sliding gates of the plant hangar open.

The airplane is taken out of the hangar.

The propellers of the engines mounted on the wings of the airplane rotate.

The cameraman is filming.

The airplane begins its takeoff run along the airfield.

Takeoff of the Maxim Gorky airplane.

Volga landscapes.

A photograph of Gorky sitting on the bank of the Volga (newsreel alternates with photographs).

View of the bell tower of the Catholic church near Sorrento in the 1910s.

City streets, everyday life of the townspeople.

Shoemakers working on the street.

Views of the city of Sorrento.

A photograph of a villa in the vicinity Sorrento, where Gorky lived.

Photograph of Gorky at the gates of the villa.

Portraits and photographs of Gorky at different periods of his life.

Photograph of Gorky during his stay in Sorrento.

Photographs of Gorky at his desk in his study, portraits of Gorky, excerpts from Gorky's correspondence with Russian and Soviet writers are heard in the background (synchronously).

Portraits of the writer M. Prishvin.

Photograph of the writer A.A. Fadeyev in his youth.

Photographs of the writer F.V. Gladkov, Gorky in Italy (newsreel with a freeze frame).

Photograph of Gorky with F.V. Gladkov.

Photograph of Gorky with a cigarette in his hand.

Photographs of Gorky during his stay in Italy while working on the novel "The Life of Klim Samgin".

Portrait of the writer and poet B.L. Pasternak.

Photograph of Gorky working at his desk.

Photographs of Gorky (face close-up).

Photographs of the inmates of the juvenile detention facility opened in 1920. Portrait of A.S. Makarenko, with excerpts from Makarenko's correspondence with Gorky playing in the background (synchronously).

Photographs of the inmates of the facility at work and at school.

Photo portraits of Gorky.

Photograph of Gorky among children.

Photograph of children swimming in the sea.

Photograph of the writer's son Ivan Volnov.

Newsreel from the 1920s: people in a boat emerge from under a cliff in Italy.

Photographs of Ivan Volnov, with excerpts from Volnov's letters to Gorky in Sorrento playing in the background (synchronously).

Newsreel from the 1920s: the life of peasants.

The destruction of Orthodox churches.

A bell falls from the belfry and breaks into pieces, the faces of peasants.

People throw icons into a fire, burning icons.

Plowing with oxen.

A peasant crosses himself before sowing.

A peasant sowing a field by hand.

Mowers sharpening their scythes.

Scythes on the mowers' shoulders.

Loading hay into a cart.

A steam engine on a grain threshing floor.

A holiday on one of the first collective farms, a tractor passes.

People walk and dance to the accordion.

Portraits of Gorky, writers L. Leonov, K. Fedin, Averin, quotes from their statements on the directions of new literature and passages from the correspondence with Gorky are heard off-screen (synchronously).

A photograph of Gorky's villa.

Photographs of Gorky's son Maxim Peshkov with his father.

Photographs of Gorky with family members and his granddaughter.

Newsreel from the 1920s: Gorky on a walk with his granddaughter Marfa.

Photographs of Gorky's 60th birthday celebration with family and friends.

Photographs of Gorky on the day of his anniversary.

A photograph of Gorky sitting on a bench.

Newsreel from 1928: the arrival of a train at Belorussky Station on May 27, 1928. Gorky exits the carriage.

People on the platform carry Gorky in their arms.

Gorky greets Muscovites meeting him on the station square.

View of Tverskaya Zastava Square during the meeting with Gorky.

Bukharin N.I. greets Gorky.

Gorky in the back seat of the car.

Gorky's car drives away from the station building.

Gorky's car, accompanied by a horse escort, drives through the streets of Moscow.

Adults and children surround the car from which Gorky exits.

View of Lenin's wooden mausoleum on Red Square.

Photographs of Gorky standing by the mausoleum.

Newsreel from 1928-1929: meeting of the writer A.S. Serafimovich with readers.

The face of the writer F.V. Gladkov, speaking at a literary debate.

Speeches by the debate participants, including K. Fedin.

Photographs of Gorky during his stay in the USSR in 1928, during meetings with the people.

Newsreel from 1928-1929: demonstrators holding banners walk to the park of culture and recreation.

General physical exercise, people perform exercises on command.

Gorky's face.

People relaxing in the park, views of the park.

Gorky during meetings with representatives of work collectives, pioneers and schoolchildren.

Gorky and his entourage on board a boat.

Gorky before inspecting the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

Panorama of the dam construction.

Views of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.

Transportation of timber for construction.

Earthworks during construction.

Manual breaking of boulders.

Gorky among the builders of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

A passenger car drives along a steppe road.

Trumpets of a brass band.

Horsemen ride by.

Gorky's arrival in Kuryazh, Kharkov Province, in July 1928. A girl kisses the headlight of a car.

A pioneer brass band is playing.

Gorky visits the commune named after him, located in the Kuryazhsky Monastery.

Gorky talks to children.

Members of the commune are heading to mow hay.

Children doing field work.

A banner with a slogan in honor of Gorky.

Photos of Gorky with members of the children's commune.

The commune's brass band is playing, the musicians' faces.

View of the highway through the windshield of a car.

A car passes over a bridge on the Georgian Military Road.

Cars travel along the Georgian Military Road.

Mountain landscape.

Meeting Gorky in Vladikavkaz.

Smoke from the chimney of a locomotive.

A passenger ship departing from the shore.

Panorama of a part of Sorrento.

Boats on the pier.

Photos of Gorky at a villa in Sorrento, standing on the balcony, reading a newspaper, working at his desk, the text of Gorky's letter to I.V. Stalin is heard in the background (synchronously).

Newsreel from the early 1930s: I.V. Stalin working at his desk, interspersed with close-up photographs of Gorky.

Photographs of Gorky while working on the novel The Life of Klim Samgin, with excerpts from Gorky's correspondence with Romain Rolland played in the background (synchronously).

Portraits and photographs of R. Rolland.

Photograph of the singer F.I. Chaliapin.

Portrait of Gorky.

Newsreel from the late 1920s: views of historical sites and squares in Rome.

Chaliapin during his stay in Rome.

Sketches of the scenery for the opera Boris Godunov.

Photographs of Chaliapin as Boris Godunov.

Photograph of Chaliapin on stage in front of an audience.

Photographs of Gorky and Chaliapin.

Photograph of Gorky at his desk, with excerpts from Gorky's correspondence with Chaliapin played in the background (synchronously).

Photographs of Chaliapin.

Portrait of Gorky.

Photographs of Gorky at the villa.

Photograph of writer A. N. Tolstoy reading a letter from Gorky.

Newsreel from 1929: folk festivals and carnival in Sorrento.

Participants in the carnival procession and life-size puppets on the streets of the city.

Giant figures of animals at the carnival, dancing people in carnival costumes.

Gorky at the carnival.

Faces of giant puppets.

Views of the festival in the square (above).

Mussolini B. poses for photo reporters.

Mussolini on horseback.

Fragment of a sports festival of fascist organizations.

Participants in the races overcome a burning barrier.

Processions and events of Italian fascist youth organizations in the cities of Italy.

Mussolini on the tribune.

Parade of Italian fascists in Rome.

Formation of flying planes in the form of a swastika.

Hands raised in a Nazi salute.

Gathering of stormtroopers in Germany.

A speaker from one of the left-wing parties is dragged from the balcony, not allowed to speak.

Photographs by R. Rolland.

Rain in Sorrento.

Photograph of Gorky's office, Gorky sitting in an armchair.

Rain outside the windowpane.

Wet roof tiles.

Landscapes outside the train carriage window.

Newsreel from 1932: train arriving at Negoreloye station on the border.

The locomotive stops at the platform.

Gorky gives an interview from the carriage window about his first impressions of arriving in the USSR in October 1932, talks to people gathered at the station (synchronously).

Gorky talks to Red Army soldiers near the carriage.

Buglers sound a signal.

The Maxim Gorky airplane flies.

Gorky on the mausoleum tribune during the May Day demonstration, with A.I. Mikoyan standing nearby.

Columns of athletes march along Red Square. M.I. Kalinin on the mausoleum tribune.

Young men and women in naval uniforms march.

Covers of new Soviet publications edited by Gorky.

View of part of Gorky's house in Moscow near the Nikitsky Gate.

Photograph of Gorky during a meeting with Soviet writers.

Photographs of Gorky and M.A. Sholokhov, with excerpts from Sholokhov's correspondence with Gorky playing in the background.

Newsreel from 1933-1934: cavalrymen on horseback before the May Day parade on Red Square.

Gorky and G.M. Dimitrov greet each other at the wall of the mausoleum.

Faces of female cadets of the OSOAVIAKhIM. Photographs of V. Vishnevsky and Gorky, with excerpts from Vishnevsky's correspondence with Gorky playing in the background (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1933-1935: I.V. Stalin walks along the wall of the mausoleum before the May Day demonstration. K.E. Voroshilov rides out of the gates of the Spasskaya Tower.

Mikoyan, Gorky, Stalin on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Rifle and cavalry units of the Red Army march along Red Square during the May Day parade.

Budyonny S.M. greets the troops from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Photographs of Gorky sitting by the wall of the mausoleum and V. Vishnevsky, excerpts from the correspondence regarding Vishnevsky's play "The First Cavalry" (synchronously) are heard in the background, portraits of Gorky and Vishnevsky.

Newsreel from 1933-1935: Gorky stands on the balcony of his dacha.

View of the window of Gorky's house in Moscow.

Rainwater pours from a pipe.

Rain floods the window glass.

Photograph of Gorky.

Photograph of Gorky's granddaughters.

Fragments of the staircase in Gorky's house.

Photograph of Gorky at his desk.

The sun rises over the horizon.

Gorky's profile in a lighted window.

Photographs of Gorky's deceased son Maxim Peshkov and Gorky at his son's funeral.

A steamboat's whistle.

View of the river bank.

Photographs of Gorky, Volga landscapes.

Photograph of Gorky with his granddaughter.

Newsreel: Volga landscapes.

Peasant women with rakes on their shoulders walking through a meadow.

Loading watermelons onto a barge.

A populated area on the banks of the Volga.

Photographs of Gorky interspersed with newsreels of Volga landscapes and steamboats sailing along the river.

Newsreel from 1934: members of the presidium of the 1st Congress of Soviet Writers applaud Gorky.

Applauding delegates to the congress.

Views of the Column Hall of the House of Unions during a session of the Congress of Soviet Writers. F.V. Gladkov, B.L. Pasternak in the presidium of the congress, faces of the members of the presidium.

Faces of the delegates to the congress.

Gorky delivers a report from the podium (synchronously).

Photographs of Gorky.

Newsreel from 1933-1934: Stalin and Gorky walk across Red Square.

The Maxim Gorky airplane in the air, photograph of Gorky.

Staging of an airplane crash (combined shooting).

Portrait of Gorky (close-up).

Views of Gorky's mansion at the Nikitsky Gate.

Panorama of part of a blank fence.

Photographs of Gorky and Chaliapin.

Interiors of Gorky's mansion.

Newsreel from 1935: Gorky and R. Rolland at their dacha in Gorki in June-July 1935. Gorky and Rolland during a conversation, the faces of Rolland and Gorky.

Seeing off Rolland at the station on July 21, 1935. Rolland in the carriage window.

Photograph of Rolland looking out of the carriage window.

Portrait and photographs of Gorky (close-up).

Newsreel: Rolland waves goodbye from the train window during his departure from Moscow on July 21, 1935. Portrait of Gorky, views of the railway track.

Photographs of Gorky during his vacation at his dacha in Tesseli in Crimea in the spring of 1936, views of the park, Crimean landscapes.

Fog over the Crimean mountains.

Portrait of Gorky.

Road in Crimea.

Photographs of the dacha in Gorki, interiors of the dacha rooms.

Gorky's desk.

Interior of Gorky's office.

Photograph of Gorky on his deathbed.

Women loading watermelons (blurred image).

Photograph of Gorky on his deathbed, close-up of his hands.