Classes (1967)

Game footage: a pattern on a curtain.

An actor as a conductor.

Students of a directing course before the start of classes.

An actor performing a pantomime.

People's Artist of the RSFSR M.O. Knebel begins the class, gives the students an assignment (synchronously and off-camera).

The students' faces.

The students complete the assignment, act out an improvised scene with a hat, a doll and glass, the students' faces.

The students act out a scene with the doll's movements.

Knebel analyzes the sketches performed by the students, points out mistakes and talks about ways of conveying the meaning of the sketch to the viewer, gives advice, clarifies the students' names in the journal (synchronously and off-camera), the students' faces.

The students' faces, Knebel explains the meaning and purpose of the next assigned stage sketch off-camera.

A student from Spain begins to act out a rabbit on stage, looking for a lost grain.

One of the students, a Spaniard, expresses his opinion about the performance of the scene with the rabbit, at the teacher's request the performer expresses his opinion in Spanish (synchronously), the evaluation of the performance is heard off-screen.

The Spaniard jokes in Russian, everyone laughs.

Knebel tells the students about his meeting with Stanislavsky (synchronously).

The students of the courses perform mimic scenes.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR A.A. Goncharov explains the plot and the super-task to the audience before they begin performing a theatrical sketch (synchronously).

The audience acts out the sketch in front of Goncharov.

The face of Goncharov, watching the performance of the sketch.

The audience continues the sketch, Goncharov gives advice on the course of the scene, the face of Goncharov laughing.

The faces of the audience, Goncharov’s comments on the performance of the sketch are heard off-screen.

Goncharov explains to the audience the techniques of directing individual scenes, talks about the structure of an individual sketch, the tasks of a theater director, and providing the actor with creative freedom in performing a role (synchronously and off-screen), the faces of the audience.

Performance of another mime scene.

The face of director A.V. Efros, watching the performance of another theatrical sketch.

The audience performs the sketch.

Efros analyzes the performed etude, points out mistakes, talks about the secondary importance of the actor's skill and the primacy of his performance conveyed to the viewer, about the importance of a direct view of life in acting, about preserving one's human "

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in artistic education, about the creative use of the Stanislavsky system, about the types of acting, about the perception of various directorial systems, about the absence of statics in art (synchronously and behind the scenes), the faces of the audience.

Efros's face.

The actor finishes playing the role of the conductor, the curtain falls.

Game footage: a pattern on a curtain.

An actor as a conductor.

Students of a directing course before the start of classes.

An actor performing a pantomime.

People's Artist of the RSFSR M.O. Knebel begins the class, gives the students an assignment (synchronously and off-camera).

The students' faces.

The students complete the assignment, act out an improvised scene with a hat, a doll and glass, the students' faces.

The students act out a scene with the doll's movements.

Knebel analyzes the sketches performed by the students, points out mistakes and talks about ways of conveying the meaning of the sketch to the viewer, gives advice, clarifies the students' names in the journal (synchronously and off-camera), the students' faces.

The students' faces, Knebel explains the meaning and purpose of the next assigned stage sketch off-camera.

A student from Spain begins to act out a rabbit on stage, looking for a lost grain.

One of the students, a Spaniard, expresses his opinion on the performance of the scene with the rabbit, at the teacher's request the performer expresses his opinion in Spanish (synchronously), an assessment of the performance is heard off-screen.

The Spaniard jokes in Russian, everyone laughs.

Knebel tells the students about his meeting with Stanislavsky (synchronously).

The students of the courses perform mime scenes.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR A.A. Goncharov explains the plot and the super-task to the students before they begin performing a theatrical sketch (synchronously).

The students act out the sketch in front of Goncharov.

The face of Goncharov watching the performance of the sketch.

The students continue the sketch, Goncharov gives advice on the course of the sketch, the face of Goncharov laughing.

The faces of the students, Goncharov's comments on the performance of the sketch are heard off-screen.

Goncharov explains to the audience the techniques of directing individual scenes, talks about the structure of an individual sketch, about the tasks of a theatre director, about providing the actor with creative freedom in performing a role (synchronously and behind the scenes), the faces of the audience.

Performance of another mime scene.

The face of director A.V. Efros, watching the performance of another theatrical sketch.

The audience performs the sketch.

Efros analyzes the performed sketch, points out mistakes, talks about the secondary nature of the actor's skill and the primacy of his performance conveyed to the viewer, about the importance of a direct view of life in acting, about preserving one's human "

I"

in artistic education, about the creative use of the Stanislavsky system, about the types of acting, about the perception of various directorial systems, about the absence of statics in art (synchronously and behind the scenes), the faces of the audience.

Efros's face.

The actor finishes playing the role of the conductor, the curtain falls.