Legend and Memory (1980)

Winter landscapes, panorama of a snow-covered field, wind bending the grass.

Ruins of brick buildings along the road (view from the car window).

Portrait of actor and film director Evgeny Chervyakov.

Members of the film crew are selecting documents and materials for the filming of a movie about E.V. Chervyakov, panorama of the room, photographs on the walls.

Camera operator Svetlana Belyaeva at the camera.

Photographs on the walls.

Photographs of cameraman Svyatoslav Belyaev during filming, S. Belyaeva’s story about her father is heard off-screen.

Fragments of the silent film “The Poet and the Tsar” from 1927, with Chervyakov in the role of A.S. Pushkin, scenes of a masquerade and a duel.

Photographs from the set of the film “The Poet and the Tsar”.

Panorama of the studio, members of the film crew sorting out photographs before filming.

Fragments of the feature film with E. Chervyakov "The Cross and the Mauser", 1925. Director of the film about Chervyakov L. Kostrichkin examines photographs.

Photo portrait of the actor A.A. Kostrichkin.

Fragments of the feature film "New Babylon", with A. Kostrichkin as a clerk and E. Chervyakov as a soldier of the National Guard of Paris.

Photographs of scenes from the feature film "Three Soldiers", 1932, with E. Chervyakov and A. Kostrichkin.

Photographs of Chervyakov and Kostrichkin during the filming of the feature film "The Marriage of Jan Knucke", 1934. Photographs in a photo album and on the table.

Actress Roza Sverdlova before the interview.

Sverdlova talks about working with Chervyakov on his film "The Girl from a Distant River" in 1927, and recalls the members of the film crew who died during the siege of Leningrad (both synchronously and behind the scenes).

Film poster.

Photographs of Sverdlova playing the lead role, photographs of film scenes.

Photograph of Chervyakov on the set.

A drawing of one of the film's decorations.

Photographs of Sverdlova in the lead role, portrait of E.V. Chervyakov.

Photographs of the filming of various scenes and takes.

Photographs of Sverdlova in the lead role during the filming of the Moscow scenes of the film.

Photograph of E. Chervyakov, cameraman S. Belyaev, and the film's designer.

Posters and newspaper clippings announcing the premiere of the film "My Son", directed by Chervyakov in 1928 and which has not survived.

Illustrations from the film's advertising booklet.

A fragment of a concert film featuring actors Cherkasov, Berezov and Yuryev.

Poster for the feature film "The Golden Beak", directed by Chervyakov in 1928. Photographs of film scenes.

Fragments of the feature film "Cities and Years", directed by Chervyakov in 1930, scenes featuring actors Ivan Chuvelev, Gennady Michurin, Andrei Kostrichkin and Bernhard Goetzke.

Photographs of Chervyakov with members of the film crew and actors.

Photographs from the sets of films directed by Chervyakov.

Photograph of Chervyakov with his wife and son.

Newsreel from 1941-1942: military actions by Soviet and German troops, artillery firing.

Excerpt from "Combat Film Collection" No. 2. Chervyakov as Napoleon in the episode "Incident at the Telegraph".

Text of Chervyakov's statement to the director of the Lenfilm studio on August 23, 1941, about his desire to stay in Leningrad and defend the city.

Newsreel from 1941: a Red Army rifle unit marches through the streets of besieged Leningrad in December 1941, portrait of Chervyakov in the uniform of a Red Army senior sergeant.

Street views of besieged Leningrad in early 1942. Tanks heading to the front.

Portrait of Chervyakov.

Photograph of Chervyakov with cameraman Belyaev, Chervyakov's face in the photograph.