Budapest meeting (1986)

Photographs of VGIK students (class of 30 years ago) – medium, small, various.

Warsaw (taken from the driveway) – medium.

Prague – general, Poland.

Travel along the roads of Mongolia – medium.

Tbilisi – medium, driveway.

Moscow – driveway, medium.

USSR. Mukhina’s sculpture “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” - medium, from the driveway.

Flags of all countries on the building of the Rossiya cinema in Moscow – medium, small, Poland.

Guests of the film festival on the sidelines of the cinema; actress I. Churikova passes by – medium, small, various, Poland.

The curtain opens, and the film festival jury members are on stage – general.

Speaking is Chairman of the USSR State Cinema Committee Filipp Timofeevich Yermash, introducing Polish director, member of the jury of the film festival Jerzy Hoffman (synchronously) – panorama of the audience – general.

Presidium of the film festival – medium.

Jerzy Hoffman and other members of the film crew are standing – general.

Jerzy at the camera – small.

Iskra Babich (Mosfilm director) is talking on the sidelines of the film festival with Hungarian film director Sandor Kö; S. Kö and VGIK teacher Yuri Chulyukin are standing – medium, small.

Film director Sasha Karpov is walking down the street – general.

Sandor Kö is arranging a meeting of his fellow students, VGIK graduates of the class of 1955 (leading teacher Mikhail Chiauresh) over the phone – large.

Moscow – general, shot from the window of the Vstrecha Hotel: film directors Jerzy Hoffman, A. Karpov, and Yu.

Chulyukin are talking (all synchronously) – short, various.

Yu.

Chulyukin among students in the classroom – general.

Students – short, various. E. Hoffman recalls his teacher M.E. Chiaureli (synchronously) – short.

B/w photo of Mikhail Chiaureli, a professor at VGIK – short.

Yu.

Chulyukin and A. Karpov are listening – short, various.

Photos of VGIK students – medium.

Hungary.

The city of Budapest – general, from above, panorama.

An airplane is taxiing to the airport building – short, panorama.

Meeting of VGIK classmates at the airport – medium, panorama.

Hugs and kisses in the city (with a car in the background) – various, departure.

Classmates from VGIK enter the room, sit down at the table, look at photographs – short, medium, various, panorama, zoom in.

Director Stanislav Strnad looks at a photo album – short. T. Tsigan and Zhenya Ilyinov are sitting – short.

B/w photo: Iskra Babich, Zhenya Ilyinov – short, various.

Iskra Babich at the table – short.

Photo of Mongolian film director Ravzha Dorzhpalam (b/w) – short.

Mongolia. R. Dorzhpalam on the set; talks about how he became a film director (synchronously, in Mongolian) – short.

Fragments of the film being shot by R. Dorzhpalan: actors getting off the bus; a Mongolian woman is standing with a child in her arms; shepherds are driving a flock of sheep; a boy is watching; shepherds are riding – various. R. Dorzhpalam speaking (synchronously, in Russian) – kr.

Czechoslovakia.

The city of Prague – general, from above.

A panorama of the building and the clock – kr.

Black and white photo of Stanislav Strnad – kr. S. Strnad inspecting the set for his film in the Barrandov studio – cf. S. Strnad talks about his path to becoming a director (synchronously, in Czech) – kr. J. Hoffman looking at a photograph – kr, a panorama.

A black and white photo of a young Jerzy Hoffman – kr. J. Hoffman and an assistant in the editing room – kr.

Posters in the room – kr.

Polish director J. Hoffman and Hungarian director Marta Mesaran (both simultaneously, in Russian) reminisce about their youth – kr, various.

Photo of Georgian director Geno Tsulaia - b/w. – kr. G. Tsulai recalls his admission to VGIK (synchronously, in Russian) – kr, various.

Photo of VGIK professor Kuleshov – kr.

Photo of young A. Karpov (Minsk director) – kr. A. Karpov speaking – kr, (synchronously).

Photo of A. Karpov among his fellow soldiers (by the time he entered VGIK, A. Karpov had a lot of life experience under his belt) – general.

VGIK classmates at the table – cf.

Photo of young Sandor Kö, Ilona Katkic, János Todd, Istvan Deák, Tomas Cigany – kr, various.

B/w/c/h.

Inscription in Hungarian – kr.

Meeting of graduates of Hungarian schools before leaving for the USSR – general.

Listeners in the hall – general, Poland.

A girl speaking – kr.

The hall applauds – cf.

Inscription in Hungarian – kr.

Departing train passengers leaning out of windows – wed, misc, gen., Poland.

Moscow.

Kievsky Railway Station building – gen., removed from the passage.

B/w. film.

Moscow, Kremlin – gen.

Moscow city – gen., removed from the passage.

Bolshoi Theater building – gen., kr.

Gorky Street – gen., from the passage.

Moscow city – gen., from above.

VGIK building in 1950 – kr.

Photo: students in front of VGIK entrance – wed, kr.

Students in class, in the reading room (photo) – misc.

Old Pravda newspaper with a report on the opening of a cinematography school – kr.

The building where the cinematography school used to be located (photo) – kr.

Photos of VGIK students and teachers – Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, Kuleshov – short, various.

Photos of M. Chiaureli, I. Pieryev; Chiaureli with students; students in class, rehearsals – short, various.

Photo of class monitor Volodya Nazarov – short. V. Nazarov speaks about the education of filmgoers – short, (synchronously).

Geno Tsulaya and Yu.

Gulyukin are listening – short, various.

Yu.

Chulyukin is speaking (synchronously) – short, medium, panorama.

Iskra Babich is listening – short. V. Nazarov speaks about his films (synchronously) – short, various.

Episode from V. Nazarov’s film “Master of the Taiga” – medium, various, panorama.

VGIK students in the workshop at the piano, singing (synchronously) – medium. I. Babich asks Y. Chulyukin about today's students – (synchronously), short. Y. Chulyukin answers (synchronously) – short, various. S. Strnad listens – short. Y. Chulyukin's students are standing – short, Polish.

S. Strnad listening – kr. Y. Chulyukin talking about his students (synchronously) – kr, various. A. Karpov speaking (synchronously) (comparing generations) – kr.

Photo of A. Karpov among his fellow soldiers – general. I. Babich listening – kr.

Fragments of A. Karpov’s b/w film “Mother’s Field” – kr, various, medium, Poland, zoom in. A. Karpov speaking (synchronously) – kr.

The city of Budapest – kr, various, Poland.

Classmates on an observation deck in Budapest – kr, Poland.

A square in the city – kr. G. Tsulaya, E. Hoffman and others passing by, looking around the city – kr, medium, various, zoom in, Poland.

Monument – kr.

A photo of Lithuanian film director and fellow student of those gathered, Vitas Žalakevičius, on the balcony of his house, talking about creativity – general, (synchronous), Poland, Wed, kr.

A student photo of his classmates – Wed.

B/w photos of Žalakevičius during filming – Wed, misc.

Fragments of the b/w film by V. Žalakevičius “Nobody Wanted to Die” - red, misc., Wed, Poland.

Jerzy Hoffman talks about his hobby (synchronous) – red.

Shelves with boxes of film in the editing room – Wed.

Photographs of fragments of Jerzy Hoffman’s films – red, misc.

Color.

A fragment from the film by E. Hoffman “The Stream” - red, zoom in.

Georgian director Geno Tsulaya speaks (synchronous) – red.

Mongolian director Ravna Dorjpalam talks to his fellow students about his spiritual closeness (simultaneously, in Russian).

Photo by Stanislav Strnad – Wed. S. Strnad speaks about the issues of his film “Run, or it will run away” (synchronously, in Russian) – kr. R. Dozpalam listens – kr. E. Hoffman speaks about the thematic perspective of his films (synchronously, in Russian) – kr. G. Tsulaja listens – kr. G. Tsulaja speaks about his latest work, the film “Chiora” (synchronously) – kr. E. Hoffman, I. Babich listen – kr, misc.

Photographs of frames from G. Tsulaja’s film “Chiora” - kr, misc., Wed. S. Strnad listens – kr.

Photographs of the heroine of G. Tsulaja’s film “Butterfly” - kr, misc. E. Hoffman speaks (synchronously) – kr, departure. I. Babich listens – kr. G. Tsulaya talks about his wife, Georgian director Nelli Nenova (Bulgarian by nationality) (synchronously) – kr.

Photo of G. Tsulaya and N. Nenova – wed, kr. N. Nenova talks about her fate (synchronously, in Russian) – kr, kr.

The city of Tbilisi – general, Poland.

Photographs of G. Tsulaya and N. Nenova’s daughter Natasha (an actress of the Meteki youth theater) – kr, misc, kr.

Yu.

Chulyukin talks about the problems of his film (synchronously) – kr, kr.

Photo: Yu.

Chulyukin working on the film – kr, misc. I. Babich listens, then talks about his problems as a director (synchronously) – kr, misc.

Director I. Katkich listens, then speaks (synchronously, in Russian) – kr.

I. Babich speaks about his film "Men" (synchronously) - kr. I. Katkic listens - kr.

Fragments from the film "Men" (b/w) - kr, various, zoom out, zoom in.

The Russian folk song "Valenki" is playing in the background.

Polish language version of the diploma of the Hungarian film director Sandor Kyo - kr.

Hungarian film director I. Katkic speaks about his films (synchronously, in Russian) - kr, various.

Fellow student I. Katkic, director T. Cigan listens - kr.

Photos: I. Katkic on the set of the film - kr, various, medium.

B/w photographs of fragments of the film by I. Katkic "My Friend Bonca" - medium, kr. G. Tsulaya speaks (synchronously) - kr.

Listens, and then speaks T. Cigan (synchronously, in Russian) – short.

Color.

Photo: T. Cigan during the filming of her film – medium.

B/w photographs: T. Cigan with elephants; episodes from the filming of T. Cigan’s popular science film about animals – short, miscellaneous, general.

Photos – fragments of T. Cigan’s documentary film about Auschwitz “The Passion of Matthew” - short, miscellaneous, general.

Directors E. Ilyinov (synchronously) – short and Yu.

Chulyukin (synchronously) – short, miscellaneous talk about the director’s profession.

Photo of Hungarian director M. Meszaros; stills from M. Meszaros’ films – short, miscellaneous, medium, general.

Directors S. Stranad, I. Katkic, E. Hoffman (all synchronously) – short, miscellaneous talk about their profession.

Classmates at the table looking at photographs – red, various.

Photographs (b/w): A. Karpova, I. Babich, E. Ilinova, I. Katkic, V. Nalakevicius, M. Mesarosh, S. Strnad, T. Cigan, J. Chulyukina, R. Dolzhpalam, T. Kyo – red.

Color.

Photo of a meeting of classmates – general.