Open lesson (1987)

The literature teacher of Leningrad school #307, E.N. Ilyin, conducts a lesson dedicated to the works of V.V. Mayakovsky (synchronously).

A boy break-dances on stage in front of the audience.

Ilyin and his students are preparing to conduct an open lesson for teachers of Leningrad schools, setting up a school desk as a blackboard.

Ilyin explains the concept of the spiritual contact method (synchronously and off-screen), writes the "formula of spirituality" on the surface of the vertical desk.

The teachers present at the lesson write down what Ilyin says.

The faces of Leningrad teachers during Ilyin's open lesson (panorama).

Ilyin gives a spelling assignment to one of his students, the girl writes the word "intellectual" with chalk, returns to her seat, Ilyin, with the help of the students, puts the desk on the floor.

Decorating the wall of the classroom.

Ilyin and two colleagues discuss the classroom conditions, the need for desks, suggest painting the desks and ceiling in rainbow colors, suggest options for the classroom interior, talk about the need for a microphone to conduct the lesson (synchronously and off-camera).

Faces of schoolchildren.

An artist shaves his head with an electric razor backstage.

Performance of a school rock-punk band.

A goat is brought onto the stage.

During the lesson, Ilyin raises the issues of overcoming human boredom, talks about the meaning of Chernyshevsky's novel "What is to be done?", about the need to "invent" yourself (synchronously).

Schoolchildren during recess.

Ilyin in front of a mirror.

Ilyin and his students pose for photographers in the school gym.

During the lesson, Ilyin talks about the problems of relationships between people, about how to "accept" a person next to you (synchronously).

Conducting a basic military training lesson in one of the senior classes, a military instructor gives drill commands in front of a line of students.

During an open lesson, E.N. Ilyin talks about compassion for a person, about the fact that there should be pain in a person, compares it to yeast, explains his spiritual position, talks about the concept of help and love (synchronously).

Students in the school corridor during a break.

Ilyin walks along the corridor, greets the students.

A sign on the door of the school principal Mikhailov F.I. Ilyin's face.

The school principal talks about the tasks of teachers of the humanities, in particular, literature (synchronously).

Ilyin walks away along the school corridor.

Ilyin reads aloud to the students an excerpt from the novel "A Hero of Our Time" during an open lesson, talks about the importance of mutual understanding between people, analyzes love in the life of the main character (synchronously and behind the scenes), the students' faces.

One of the students talks about the need for understanding for a genius, Ilyin develops his thought, the student talks about the fate of Mayakovsky, Yesenin, Pushkin (synchronously).

Ilyin reads an excerpt from a poem by Lermontov (synchronously).

Part of the classroom decoration, Ilyin takes a thermos and lemon out of his school bag, makes himself tea with lemon, drinks tea while sitting in an empty classroom, a 360-degree panorama of part of the classroom.

Ilyin's note in chalk on the surface of a desk about leaving for Riga.

Young people skateboarding along Nevsky Prospect.

Ilyin answers a question on a helpline, talks about enjoying life (synchronously).

Ilyin's students in the classroom during a break.

A girl talks about the problem of the "superfluous person" in modern life (synchronously).

Ilyin's face as he listens to his students.

Young men and women discuss and argue about their "need" in school and the educational system (synchronously).

Ilyin's students in the classroom discuss the problem of their "Need" for the school and the educational system as a whole (synchronously and off-screen), the students' faces.

The teachers present at Ilyin's open lesson on "human studies" take notes.

Ilyin announces the end of the lesson, the students ask him to continue the lesson.

The students of the school in the corridor during a break, the school brass band plays.

The school principal among the students.

Students of different classes during a break, the students' faces.

The students' schoolbags and bags piled against the wall.

Ilyin conducts an open lesson on "human studies" with another class, talks about the individual characteristics of each person, talks about his injury during the siege of Leningrad, about overcoming the consequences of the injury, talks about the letters that come to him, about the need for a teacher to be an "artist" in life (synchronously and off-screen), the students' faces.

Schoolchildren - participants of the New Year's celebration, in carnival costumes and with lit Bengal lights in their hands, climb the stairs.

Ilyin in a black mask among the students during the New Year's celebration, young men and women dance in a classroom freed from desks.

The face of one of the junior schoolchildren.

Ilyin among the students dancing around him.

A young man plays the guitar, faces of senior schoolchildren.

A view from the window of trees covered in frost.

Ilyin swims in an ice hole on the Neva.