Friend, pray for me (1993)

I.S. Kozlovsky stands by the window, turns, walks across the room, walks across the room to the wardrobe and back, view from the window of the room.

The face of Kozlovsky walking across the room, Kozlovsky's memories are heard off-screen.

Kozlovsky gives an interview, shares his memories, talks about today's life (synchronously and off-screen).

View from the windows of Kozlovsky's apartment, cityscape, panorama of windows.

Panorama of green trees.

Fragment of the opera "Eugene Onegin", ball scene.

View of the auditorium and boxes of the Bolshoi Theater.

Kozlovsky in front of the mirror in the dressing room, the make-up artist tidies Kozlovsky's hair, the interior of Kozlovsky's dressing room (panorama), an elderly woman is sitting on the sofa.

Young Kozlovsky performs the romance "Don't sing, beauty, in front of me..." accompanied by a piano and violin (synchronously).

Portrait of Kozlovsky on the wall.

Kozlovsky recalls the opera parts he performed on stage, discusses visibility and audibility in opera (synchronously).

Kozlovsky leaves the entrance of his house in Moscow, walks along the path.

Kozlovsky's face during a walk.

View of one of Moscow's streets in winter.

Kozlovsky walks along winter Moscow, stops, takes off his hat.

Monument to P.I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, Kozlovsky stands in front of the monument, turns around, walks down the street, putting his hands behind his back.

Bas-relief of Russian singer A.V. Nezhdanova and a memorial plaque in her honor on the wall of a house.

Kozlovsky's face.

A memorial plaque with a bas-relief in honor of M.P. Maksakova on the wall of the house where she lived.

Kozlovsky talks about loneliness and death (synchronously).

Newsreel: Kozlovsky performs the romance "I Met You..." to the verses of F. Tyutchev, accompanied by a guitar (synchronously).

A chandelier above an escalator at one of the Moscow metro stations.

A panorama of a part of the sculptural group at a metro station, an image of Kozlovsky in the group.

The text of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on awarding Kozlovsky the Order of Lenin in 1939, published in the newspaper.

Newsreel from 1939: M.I. Kalinin presents Kozlovsky with the Order of Lenin in the Kremlin, Kozlovsky's face in old age.

Pinning the Order of Lenin to Kozlovsky's lapel in 1951. Kozlovsky in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace among awarded artists.

Chandeliers of the St.

George Hall.

The text of the government telegram, the telegram on a stand on the refrigerator in Kozlovsky's apartment, Kozlovsky recalls the assessment of his work by F.I. Chaliapin, speaks about the small amount of time left to him (synchronously).

Glare of the sun on the surface of the water.

Kozlovsky talks about the meaning of the meeting with the authors of the film, dreams of the sea (synchronously and off-screen).

Bark on a tree trunk, a panorama of a plaster vase lying on its side in the park.

Carved decorations of the lying vase.

Kozlovsky at home talks about popularity and the fear of loneliness (synchronously and off-screen).

Kozlovsky approaches the table, sits down, crosses himself, and begins to have breakfast.

Kozlovsky's figure in a sculptural group at a metro station.

Kozlovsky has breakfast, sitting at the table, a view of the Bolshoi Theater hall, the audience applauds.

Fragment of the 1950 film-opera "Boris Godunov": Kozlovsky performs the part of the holy fool (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel from 1950: view of the Bolshoi Theatre building.

Quadriga over the pediment of the Bolshoi Theatre, alternating with fragments of the opera.

Panorama of the sculpture group at the metro station.

Kozlovsky at home.

An elderly woman sits on the sofa in Kozlovsky's dressing room.

Kozlovsky having his makeup applied.

Fragments of the 1950 film-opera "Boris Godunov": Kozlovsky performs the part of the holy fool.

Panorama of the boxes of the Bolshoi Theater.

A homemade cross nailed above the entrance to an Orthodox church.

Construction debris in the courtyard of the church.

Kozlovsky leaves the church with a burning candle in his hand.

Kozlovsky having his makeup applied.

Icons and busts on the cabinets in Kozlovsky's apartment, his memories are heard off-screen.

The interior of one of the rooms.

Kozlovsky thanks his makeup artist Anna.

Newsreel: Kozlovsky and his daughter perform "Sleep, my joy, fall asleep..." at the piano.

Kozlovsky plays chords on the piano at home.

Kozlovsky plays the piano in the late 1930s.

Kozlovsky reflects on his life's journey, recalls Sobinov and Chaliapin, and talks about reciprocity in creative life (synchronously and off-screen).

Cityscape outside Kozlovsky's apartment (panorama).

View of a Moscow street in winter.

An old radio on a stool in Kozlovsky's apartment.

View of part of an old Moscow neighborhood (from above).

Newsreel: spectators applauding in the boxes of the Bolshoi Theater.

Kozlovsky reflects on the spectator's search for sound (synchronously and off-screen).

A trickle of water flows from the tap above the sink.

View of the balustrade of an escalator in the metro.

Kozlovsky climbs the wooden stairs in his apartment.

Kozlovsky, sitting at the piano, reflects on the approach of death (synchronously), and begins to perform a piece by Tchaikovsky.

Kozlovsky walks around the apartment, view from the window.