Silver Ball 05/30/1999 (1999)

The program talks about the life and creative destiny of one of the first actresses of the Art Theater of Olga Leonidovna Knipper-Chekhov, the beginning of her theatrical career, about acquaintance and further relations with Chekhov AP, joint work with Stanislavsky KS. and Nemirovich-Danchenko VI, about her personal life, about the roles she played and the difficulties of creative life in the USSR, her friends and the last years of her life.

Behind the scenes sound fragments of radio recordings of monologues from the performances of the Moscow Art Theater performed by Knipper-Chekhov (synchronously).

Newsreel: Kalinin M.I. hands Knipper-Chekhovoy OL Order of the Red Banner of Labor in May 1937.

Knipper-Chekhov in the make-up room of the Moscow Art Theater in the 1950s.

Knipper-Chekhov among the actors of the Art Theater during the holiday in the 1910s, is played by a military orchestra.

Knipper-Chekhov during the laying on the grave of Chekhov wreath from the Union of Soviet Writers in 1946.

Knipper-Chekhov on the deck of a steamer among the artists of the Art Theater and fans in the 1910s.

The February Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, revolutionary demonstrations on the streets of the city.

Knipper-Chekhov during a grand reception and a banquet at the Moscow Art Theater in the 1930s.

Knipper-Chekhov and Chekhov's sister AP Maria Pavlovna in the courtyard of the house in Yalta.

Seeing off at the station of the Moscow Art Theater troupe, leaving on tour.

Types of Paris in the 1930s.

Knipper-Chekhov and artists of the Moscow Art Theater during a tour of the Georgian SSR in the 1930s.

Types of Moscow in the late 1950s, the building of the Moscow Art Theater.

Farewell to the body of Nemirovich-Danchenko in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in April 1943.

Carrying out the burial urn.

Types of funeral procession.

Panorama of the funeral rally at Novodevichy Cemetery.

Photos Knipper-Chekhov in different years, among the actors of the Moscow Art Theater, with Chekhov AP, Stanislavsky KS and Nemirovich-Danchenko VI

Pictures of scenes from performances with the participation of Knipper-Chekhov.

Portraits and photographs of Anton Chekhov.