The film tells about the life and work of the prominent Soviet artist I. I. Brodsky.
Views of Leningrad. The building of the Academy of Arts. Opening of the exhibition of the artist I. I. Brodsky. General view of the painting in the exhibition halls. Visitors at the exhibition. The house-museum of I. E. Repin in Penaty. I. I. Brodsky's daughter L. I. Brodskaya talks about her father (synchronously). The film uses footage from I. I. Brodsky's lifetime: I. I. Brodsky with students in his studio. The museum-apartment of I. I. Brodsky.




Leningrad Embankment.
Building of the Academy of Arts. A.Laktionov "Portrait of the Artist I.Brodsky".
Opening of the exhibition of I.Brodsky at the Academy of Arts.
Paintings by I.Brodsky.
House of I.Repin in Penaty.
Repin and Brodsky (photo).
Building of the Academy of Arts.
Drawings by Brodsky for the Fund for Aid to Revolutionaries.
Painting by I.Brodsky "Red Funeral".
Portraits by Brodsky: M.Frunze, I.Repin, K.Chukovsky, M.F.Andreeva, M.Gorky.
Chronicle of the first years of the revolution: parade, Lenin's speech, rally.
Painting by Brodsky "Lenin and the demonstration.1919" Chronicle of 1920: 2nd Congress of the Comintern.
Brodsky makes sketches at a meeting of the congress.
Painting "Lenin's speech at a rally of workers of the Putilov factory".
Chronicle: Brodsky in his studio working on the painting "Seeing Off the Red Army Units to the Polish Front".
Painting "The Execution of 26 Baku Commissars".
Exhibition hall.
Visitors at the exhibition.
Painting "Lenin in Smolny". L.I.Brodskaya (synchronously).
Chronicle: Brodsky with his students.
Brodsky Street in Leningrad. I.Brodsky Memorial Apartment Museum.
Interiors of the apartment.
Portraits of outstanding people by Brodsky.
Portraits of Lenin.
Lenin V.I. - Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars,
Brodsky I.I. - artist
Brrodskaya L.I. - People's Artist, daughter of I.I. Brodsky
1918-1920
Leningrad, Leningrad region
Autumn