The film tells about the Soviet artist Evgeny Adolfovich Kibrik, who created illustrations for many masterpieces of world literature. Friends, colleagues and students remember the artist.












On the wall hangs a board with the monogram "EK", the door to the artist's studio opens.
Close-up - paints, brushes, pencils on the table.
Studio - a table, a chair, sheets of paper, paints, brushes, etc. on the table.
Panorama of the bookshelves in the studio.
Panorama of the bust, sculpture, table in the studio, drawing accessories on the table, etc.
In the studio, the students of the artist Evgeny Kibrik - Yuri Vechersky, Rustam Yaushev, Nikolay Voronkov are looking at drawings, sketches.
In the frame - the wife of the artist Kibrik Irina Alexandrovna, artist Anatoly Vladimirovich Kokorin, academicians Boris Sergeevich Ugarov and Dementiy Alekseevich Shmarinov.
Ugarov and Shmarinov are sorting through and looking at Kibrik's drawings, graphics, sketches.
Panorama of the studio, the artist's students, his wife.
Close-up - the book "Second Lieutenant Kizhe" opens, the pages are turned, in the frame - Kibrik's illustrations.
Close-up - Kibrik's drawings on the theme of peasantry, agricultural work, etc.
Close-up - Yuri Tynyanov's book on the shelf, brushes lying nearby (other books appear, illustrated by Kibrik).
Close-up - Romain Rolland's book "Cola Brugnon" - Kibrik's illustrations for this book are shown.
Chronicle of 1935 - the arrival of the writer Romain Rolland to the USSR. The artist Evgeny Kibrik recalls his meeting with Romain Rolland.
Close-up - Kibrik's drawing.
Kibrik speaking.
Kibrik's drawings-illustrations for the book by Romain Rolland.
In the frame is the book "Cola Brugnon" - the pages are turned, the illustrations are visible.
In the frame is Rolland's preface to the first Soviet edition of the book, with a dedication to Evgeny Kibrik, the illustrations for the book are shown.
Close-up - the book "Cola Brugnon" on the shelf, a panorama of other books.
Black and white photographs of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the war in Spain, etc.
The book "The Legend of Eulenspiegel" by Charles de Coster - the pages are turning, in the frame - illustrations by Evgeny Kibrik.
Close-up - the book "The Legend of Eulenspiegel" on the shelf, other books are standing nearby.
Evening, winter Leningrad, view of the Mikhailovsky Theater building.
Dawn, embankment, frozen Neva.
View of the spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Kibrik's drawings from the "Life of Leningraders" cycle.
Close-up - the artist's desk, a green lamp, a book in French is open on the table, a book in Russian "The Enchanted Soul" by Romain Rolland lies nearby.
Close-up - a letter from the writer to the artist Kibrik.
Illustrations, sketches for the book "The Enchanted Soul".
Kibrik's drawing, the date "June 22, 1941" is at the bottom.
Kibrik's war drawings from Stalingrad.
In Kibrik's drawing - Taras Bulba.
Close-up - N. Gogol's book "Taras Bulba", pages are turned, illustrations by Kibrik are shown.
Kibrik's workshop, artist Anatoly Vladimirovich Kokorin is speaking.
Kibrik's drawings are of Russian heroes.
The "Leniniana" cycle - Kibrik's drawings depict Lenin.
Artists Ugarov and Shmarinov are speaking.
In the frame - graphic drawings with Lenin.
Close-up - portraits of Lenin, sketches, drafts.
On the wall hangs a portrait of Lenin by Kibrik.
Various drawings with Lenin from the "Leniniana" cycle.
Ugarov is speaking - he talks about Kibrik's paintings from the "1917" cycle, which hang on the wall (on revolutionary themes, the capture of the Winter Palace, Lenin on the rostrum, etc.).
Close-up - N. Ostrovsky's book "How the Steel Was Tempered" opens.
Chronicle of the 1970s - Kibrik draws, makes sketches, prepares illustrations for the book.
On Pavka Korchagin appears on a sheet of paper.
Close-up - hands open the book "How the Steel Was Tempered", turn the pages, Kibrik's illustrations are visible.
On the table are the books for which Kibrik drew illustrations, there are brushes.
The artist Shmarinov speaks, shows Kibrik's watercolor drawings, painted from life, graphics, etc.
Close-up - a watercolor painted in Venice.
Shmarinov speaks.
Shmarinov shows Kibrik's early works (portrait of a girl), the artist's self-portrait, painted in oil, a portrait of a student, a portrait of the artist Pimenov (a friend of Kibrik).
Shmarinov speaks.
Panorama of stacks of drawings, sketches by the artist Evgeny Kibrik.
Close-up - Pushkin's book "Boris Godunov".
In the frame - Kibrik's illustrations for "Boris Godunov".
Sketches for the portrait of Tsar Boris.
The pages of the book are turned, in the frame - Kibrik's illustrations, sketches, sketches.
Close-up - the book "Boris Godunov" on the table, among other books, brushes lying nearby.
Students, colleagues of Kibrik in the artist's studio - sorting through, examining drawings, sketches, etc.
Kibrik's student, artist Rustam Yaushev, speaking, panorama of other students leafing through the album.
Yaushev speaking.
In the photographs - Evgeny Kibrik.
Kibrik's illustrations for Gogol's "Portrait".
View of Kibrik's studio.
Close-up - brushes.
Sketches, drawings for Shakespeare's "Othello" (the artist's unfinished work).
Evgeny Kibrik's desk - a stack of manuscripts lies.
Artist, painting, paintings, art workshop, illustrations for the book, sketches, sketches, drawings
Rolland R. - French writer and public figure
playwright
musicologist E. A. Kibrik - Soviet artist and painter
schedule
illustrator
teacher
1935 1970
Leningrad
Winter