Fiery Angel. Sergei Prokofiev (1990)

The face of the actor playing the composer Sergei Prokofiev.

The actor stands behind a muslin curtain, sits in a chair.

A table clock under a glass dome.

The actor in a chair and behind a transparent curtain.

Staged shots, imitation of a newsreel: placing a coffin on a pedestal in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Beria in the front seat behind the windshield of a car.

Opening the lid of the coffin.

People in the crowd turn their heads back.

Newsreel: Sergei Prokofiev working on a musical score, sitting at a table on a country veranda.

Blooming daisies, a model of a house.

The surface of a pond overgrown with mud (panorama), mud floating by.

View of part of an ancient fortress.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Sergei Prokofiev at the piano during a concert.

The composer's hands and the keys of the piano.

Prokofiev's face in profile.

Faces of participants in one of the rallies.

Prokofiev at the piano during a performance of one of his works in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Staged scenes: the face of a young actor playing Sergei Prokofiev as a child.

Young Sergei Prokofiev with a toy in his hands (stylized as a newsreel).

A boy sits by a windowsill with flower pots on it.

An armchair by the windowsill.

Views of New York skyscrapers.

Views of New York streets at night, traffic, illuminated advertising.

A street sign against the background of skyscrapers, the text of Sergei Prokofiev's memoirs about New York is heard in the background.

Newsreel: a fashion show in America in the 1920s.

Visitors enter a night burlesque.

Girls at the bar mix cocktails.

A performance by a jazz singer who simultaneously performs tap dancing.

Sergei Prokofiev works on a musical score, sitting at a table on a country veranda.

Prokofiev at his dacha, working on a new piece at the piano.

Scenes from the film-ballet Romeo and Juliet to music by Sergei Prokofiev, the death of Mercutio, the murder of Tybalt in a duel with Romeo.

Photographs of the streets of St.

Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century.

Photographs of professors from the St.

Petersburg Conservatory, with whom Sergei Prokofiev studied.

Fragments of a film about the events of December 1905 on Presnya.

Photo portrait of the composer Myaskovsky in military uniform.

Photographs of Sergei Prokofiev at the age of 15. Newsreel from 1912: Director of the Conservatory Glazunov A.K. with teachers during the 50th anniversary of the Conservatory.

Conservatory teachers at the monument to M.I. Glinka.

View of London Bridge in 1914. Sailing ships on the Thames.

Posters of the Russian Ballet performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris during the "Russian Seasons" of S.P. Diaghilev.

Photograph of Russian ballet dancers in Paris.

Photo portrait of Diaghilev.

Newsreel: views of London streets, shop windows.

Goods in the shop windows, reflections of cars in the glass of the shop windows.

Apple tree branch, model of a house behind the blades of grass (combined shooting).

Newsreel of 1914: a unit of Russian cavalry moves at a fast march to the line of attack of the Austrian positions in the autumn of 1914. Soldiers get water from a well for a horse drinking trough, turning a winch, panorama of the unit's location.

Everyday life of the Russian army on the front line.

Giving signals with flags to a neighboring unit.

Artillery crews of the Russian army take their places at the guns at the firing position in the winter of 1914-1915, open fire.

Panorama of the firing position.

One of the guns is firing.

Tulle curtain on the window.

A naked woman lies on a sofa in front of a window.

Newsreel: a storm on the Neva and a flood in Petrograd.

Panorama of a revolutionary rally on the Field of Mars.

View of part of the rally on July 19, 1920 in honor of the delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on Uritsky (Palace) Square in Petrograd.

Photograph of Sergei Prokofiev sitting at the piano.

Newsreel from the 1920s: People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR A.V. Lunacharsky puts on his hat, leaves, interspersed with a winter landscape.

Lunacharsky by a car with a bouquet of flowers.

Raging waves in the open sea, Prokofiev's memories of a trip to America through Siberia and Japan are heard in the background.

View of the Capitol building in Washington.

Mstislav Rostropovich talks about Prokofiev's work, about his acquaintance with his music at a concert in 1948, about performing works by Myaskovsky and Prokofiev, about Prokofiev's assessment of his cello playing, about experiments in Prokofiev's work, about his attitude to Prokofiev, about the "

internationality"

of Prokofiev's music, about his place in the history of mankind (synchronously and behind the scenes), paintings on the walls of the hall (panorama), fragments of paintings.

Rostropovich during an interview.

Newsreel: Rostropovich performs a piece by Prokofiev on the cello during a concert.

Summer landscape, trees on the edge of a forest (panorama).

Bare feet in a dirty puddle in a meadow.

Path in a meadow.

Vegetation in a meadow.

Photographs of Sergei Prokofiev in early childhood.

Photographs of Prokofiev's parents.

Photographs of holidays and joint feasts of the Prokofievs and their friends the Pomerantsevs.

Photograph of the composer S. I. Taneyev.

Photographs of Prokofiev's first teacher Reinhold Moritsovich Glier.

Newsreel of 1915: the funeral of S. I. Taneyev in Moscow, the movement of the funeral procession.

The hearse at the head of the funeral procession, followed by the participants of the funeral.

Carrying the coffin with Taneyev's body to the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Fragments of Prokofiev's ballet "The Tale of the Jester Who Outplayed Seven Jesters", views of Paris at sunset.

Newsreel: Sergei Prokofiev gets up from his chair on the dacha veranda.

Photograph of Prokofiev with his wife Lina Ivanovna.

A rock and a pine tree on the seashore.

View of a spreading pine tree.

A spring gushing from the stones.

Panorama of part of an abandoned garden.

A spring in the garden.

The head of a sculpture of a sleeping lion.

Crimean landscapes and flora.

Newsreel from the 1930s: a loudspeaker.

A girl waking up.

Children in their cribs are waking up.

A woman opens a window, pulls back the curtain.

A girl gets out of bed, gets dressed.

Budyonny S.M. gets out of bed.

Young people doing morning exercises.

Budyonny doing gymnastics.

Group exercises by adults and children.

Photographs of I.V. Stalin.

Newsreel from the 1930s: a reception in the USA. Artists invited to the evening are climbing the stairs.

Faces of movie stars.

Dancing couples.

Prokofiev at a table on the veranda of his dacha.

Photograph of Prokofiev.

Photograph of Prokofiev's wife Lina Ivanovna with their son.

An apple tree branch, a model of a house in the grass.

Clouds covering the mountain peaks.

Flaming coals.

A boy with an apple in his hand.

Night festival on the water with fireworks (newsreel).

People in boats.

Rally and fireworks during the night festivities, diving.

People in the crowd turn their heads back (staged scene).

Newsreel from 1947: Shvernik N.M. in the Kremlin presents Prokofiev with the diploma of the Stalin Prize laureate.

Ballerina Galina Ulanova at her home.

Ulanova talks about her acquaintance with Prokofiev, about working with him, about the impressions of his music (synchronously and behind the scenes), the interiors of Ulanova's apartment.

Fragments of the film-performance "Romeo and Juliet" with Ulanova's participation.

Photograph of Galina Ulanova in her youth.

Newsreel: the roof of a diesel locomotive arriving at the station.

Arrival of a train at the station.

Those meeting carry Gorky A.M. On the platform after his arrival in Moscow on May 28, 1928. Gorky, from an open car, responds to the greetings of the people meeting him on the station square; next to Gorky is N.I. Bukharin.

View of the square filled with people.

Gorky makes a speech.

Prokofiev plays the piano at his dacha.

Photograph of Prokofiev with his second wife, Mira Alexandrovna Mendelsohn, in 1946 at their dacha on Nikolina Gora.

A woman walks along the wall of an ancient fortress (staged scene).

Newsreel from 1936-1937: a procession in carnival costumes during the May Day celebrations in Moscow, faces of the participants in the celebrations.

Khrushchev N.S. on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Participants in the celebrations, dressed in national costumes of the peoples of the USSR, dance along Red Square (top), Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M., Kalinin M.I., Andreev A.A. applaud, standing on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

View of part of the May Day demonstration on Red Square (top).

Yezhov N.I., Molotov V.M., Khrushchev N.S. greet the demonstration participants from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

View of part of the May Day demonstration (top).

Yezhov's face.

A child on his father's shoulders on Red Square.

Budyonny greets the demonstration participants from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Demonstration participants passing through Red Square greet the leaders of the party and government.

Yegorov A.I. greets the demonstration participants from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

A boy waves a cap taken from his head.

Molotov, Voroshilov, Stalin and Khrushchev on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

View of the rostrum of the mausoleum and the passing column of the demonstration (top).

A boy by the window adjusts his white tie.

A blizzard is sweeping.

A girl's face among meadow flowers.

A model of a house on the grass.

Newsreel: Prokofiev's desk on the veranda of the dacha.

A vase of flowers and manuscripts of scores on the table.

Prokofiev, sitting at a table on the veranda of the dacha, works on his next piece, gets up from a wicker chair.

Prokofiev's dacha on Nikolina Gora.

Stalin in a coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in March 1953 (above).

Funeral wreaths at the coffin.

Stalin's awards on pillows.

Artists paint posthumous portraits of Stalin in the coffin.

The hands of Stalin lying in the coffin.

One of the artists at work.

Stalin in the coffin.

The clearing haze over a path in an autumn park.