What's good about the theatre? (1992)

The hand of a theater artist rotates a model of the scenery.

Theater artists and decorators at work in a workshop.

The face of one of the artists.

A model of one of the scenery.

Theater costumers and prop masters are preparing for the performance, a panorama of the costume room.

An artist and a costumer are trying on a dress of one of the actresses, the actress's face.

Theater costumes on hangers in the costume room.

Ladies' hats in the costume room.

The costumer consults with the artist.

The costumer and the artist inspect a new stage costume.

The lighting technician checks the spotlights.

Setting up the scenery on the stage.

The stage masters at work.

The foreman supervises the raising of the scenery cloth.

The spotlights are lit under the ceiling of the auditorium.

The actors' faces during the performance.

The curtain closes.

Photographs of Kazan in the 19th century.

Photograph of the building of Kazan University.

Photograph of the Sinyakov House, which has housed the Kazan Bolshoi Drama Russian Theater named after V.I. Kachalov since 1833. Views of the Kazan Kremlin and streets of modern Kazan.

Memorial plaque with the designation of V. I. Kachalov Street.

View of the theater foyer.

Steps of the staircase leading to the second floor.

View of part of the exhibition of the theater museum.

Pince-nez on the desk.

Folders with the texts of plays staged in the theater, on the wall - a photograph of the theater building.

A playbill announcing Kachalov's benefit performance.

Photographs of Kachalov and theater actors.

Kachalov's portrait on the wall of the theater museum.

The director of the museum gives an interview about the history of the theater (synchronously).

Playbills with the names of plays staged on the stage of the theater in different years.

Photographs of scenes from the play "Anna Karenina", portraits of the performers of the leading roles.

An article about the play "Anna Karenina", published in the newspaper "Krasnaya Tataria" in 1949. The curtain opens.

Photographs of scenes from plays staged on the stage of the theater and the actors involved in them.

Photos of scenes from the play about the last days of A.S. Pushkin's life.

Sketches of scenery for the play about Ivan the Terrible.

Photos of scenes from plays staged in the 1950s, portraits of actors.

Photo of a scene from the play "The Factory Girl", staged at the Kazan Kachalov Theater in the late 1950s, portraits of actresses Vera Titova and Juno Kareva.

Photo of the theater stage with scenery.

Photographs of actress Lyudmila Milova during her performance in the play "Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague".

Portrait of L. Milova.

The lights come on.

Actors N. I. Yakushenko, I. V. Zagorsky and V. M. Pavlova play a scene from the play "The Old Man", fragments of the play, actors' faces.

The lights go out.

View of part of the hall and the stage, the curtain closes.

Portraits of the theater's main artists - V. S. Nikitin, E. B. Elms.

The chief director's table, installed in the hall during the rehearsal.

Portrait of the theater's chief director in the 1940-1960s E. A. Prostova.

The TV camera turns.

Fragments of the TV feature film "I Want to Believe" staged on the theater stage.

Scenes from the play "Virgin Soil Upturned" with G. Egorov and M. Kobchikova in the leading roles, the actor Yakushenko plays the role of grandfather Shchukar.

Fading spotlights.

The curtain closes.

Portrait of the theater director in 1834-1962 G.D. Rigorin.

Portraits of actors and actresses - Zhilina, Schmidt, Lisevskaya, Nikulina, Ardarov, Zagorsky, Lyulyukin, Matskevich and others.

Theater director G. Pervin speaks about new directions in the theater's work, about the problems of the new repertoire, about the preferences of the audience (synchronously).

Hands sort through papers on the table.

Actors of the theater during performances and rehearsals.

The theater's chief director Yuri Ilyin speaks about famous actors of the theater, about the need for serious directing, about the coexistence of the director and the troupe (synchronously).

Fragments of a rehearsal of one of the performances staged on the theater stage.

The director during a rehearsal.

Theater veterans give speeches during the theater's bicentennial anniversary in 1992, the faces of the speakers.

A memorial plaque in honor of Kachalov.

A view of the empty auditorium and stage before the start of the anniversary events.

Actors and guests talk to each other in the foyer.

Oleg Lundstrem gives an interview about his work at the Kazan Russian Drama Theater in his youth, about the role of the Kazan Theater in his further creative career as a musician - jazz performer (synchronously).

Lundstrem among the guests of honor on stage during the anniversary event.

Honoring the veterans of the theater.

Actress Vera Ulik talks about her work at the Kachalov Theatre, about working with famous actors - Yakushenko, Pavlova and others (synchronously).

Portraits of actors Yakushenko, Pavlova, Schmidt, Lisetskaya.

Faces of the participants of the anniversary meeting.

People in the hall applaud.

Theater actors and guests on the stage.

Faces of the spectators, one of the guests reads out the text of the congratulatory address.

Lundstrem's face.

Guests deliver congratulatory addresses, faces of the spectators, panorama of the auditorium.

View of the stage.

Another congratulator speaks.

Honored guests on the stage.

Presentation of gifts to the theater staff.

View of the anniversary cake with two hundred candles.

Guests stand around the cake.

View of the stage and the hall during the anniversary event.

View of part of the theater foyer.

Portraits of artists and theater workers on the walls of the foyer.

Actors at a collective reading of a new play.

Faces of the actors and the chief director.

Young actress Tatyana Bushueva talks about her desire to work in the theater longer, about preserving old theater traditions.

Posters with the names of plays in the theater's current repertoire.

Actor Yuri Fedotov in front of a mirror in the dressing room preparing to go on stage in the play "Memorial Prayer".

Spotlights are turned on.

The curtain opens.

Yuri Fedotov reads a monologue during the play, the faces of the audience.

Fragments of the play "Memorial Prayer".

The curtain closes.