My Fleeing Hero (1992)

A child's hand on the keys of a piano.

Newsreel from 1937: the face of the young composer Oleg Karavaichuk.

Professor of the Leningrad Conservatory S.I. Savshinsky talks to pioneers and young musicians, Oleg Karavaichuk, sitting next to him, stands up, the young cellist Danii Shafran takes the instrument.

Oleg Karavaichuk sits down at the piano, D. Shafran sits down next to him with a cello.

A children's toy piano stands on the asphalt, a panorama of the wall of an old building.

Panorama of part of St.

Petersburg (above), a bell ringer on the bell tower of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

Composer O. Karavaichuk leaves the entrance.

Karavaichuk walks through the courtyards.

Karavaichuk at the entrance to the bell tower.

Karavaichuk walks along the sidewalk.

Karavaichuk walks through a passage yard, walks along the street, panorama of the cast-iron grating of the gate of a neglected yard.

Karavaichuk at the piano in the hall of the Leningrad Conservatory during a rehearsal.

Karavaichuk plays the piano in a half-standing position, leaning on a high chair, the composer's feet are on the pedals of the piano.

Reflection of windows on the surface of the piano lid, Karavaichuk at the piano, the composer's hands.

Karavaichuk's face during the creative process, the composer performing his work.

Workers carry an organ part.

Karavaichuk at the piano in the creative process.

Karavaichuk performs a musical work in his characteristic manner.

Panorama of the conservatory hall.

Karavaichuk talks about his methods of composing music, about European music critics (synchronously).

Composer Oleg Karavaichuk talks about the evolution of world music and the problems that arise in creating new music (synchronously).

Karavaichuk, in an empty hall of the St.

Petersburg Conservatory, performs a musical improvisation of his own composition at the piano, talks about the features of creating musical works and improvisations (synchronously).

Musicians check the wind instruments.

Karavaichuk, at the piano, performs a piece during a rehearsal and conducts the orchestra.

Karavaichuk walks across the stage.

Karavaichuk gives instructions to the musicians, hums a melody, imitates the sounds of various wind instruments (synchronously).

Karavaichuk rehearses in the hall of the Conservatory together with the Bell Ringing Ensemble of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Karavaichuk makes rhythmic movements during a rehearsal.

Karavaichuk at the piano during a rehearsal, plays to the accompaniment of bell ringing, hums a melody, discusses various aspects of performing a piece of music with the musicians.

Panorama of part of the conservatory hall, view from the window.

Karavaichuk passes by a stack of logs.

Karavaichuk ponders, sitting on a log, children on logs (panorama), Karavaichuk gets up from the log, leaves.

Karavaichuk climbs under the piano on the conservatory stage.

Karavaichuk sits under the piano, hums excerpts of the melody he is composing.

Karavaichuk climbs out from under the piano.

Karavaichuk, sitting at the piano, reasons out loud about the similarity of the development of the human fetus and the composition of music (synchronously).

Karavaichuk performs his piece on the piano, view of the open piano.

Karavaichuk in the creative process at the piano.

Karavaichuk and the sound engineer at the console, panorama of the radio workshop.

Karavaichuk at home discussing the details of the filming with the author.

Karavaichuk passes through a doorway (combined shooting).

Karavaichuk at home plays the piano with his right hand wrapped in a towel, being in the creative process, gets up, thinks.

Karavaichuk, kneeling at the piano, tries to create another improvisation, takes various poses, hums a melody, lies down under the piano keyboard, plays lying down, raises his leg onto the keys.

Karavaichuk gets to his feet, controls the video camera with a remote control, looks into the camera lens, the remote control is in Karavaichuk's hands.

Collages of frames.

Karavaichuk in the creative process at the piano in the conservatory hall during a rehearsal.

Projection of Karavaichuk's image on the wall of the house, Karavaichuk's face, the projection moves along the walls of the houses.

A wandering spot of light on the walls of the houses and the streets of the night city.

View of one of the streets of St.

Petersburg on a white night, walls and parts of the iron roof of a building.

View of part of the roofs of houses and a block of St.

Petersburg in the area of St.

Isaac's Square (above).

Newsreel from 1937: young composer Oleg Karavaichuk performs his own composition "Lullaby" in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Karavaichuk's face.