The Composer Anatoly Novikov.

The Composer Anatoly Novikov. , 1977 (28:40)

Annotation: A reflection film about the creative life of the oldest Soviet composer, USSR People’s Artist.

Film description: Composer A. Novikov works for piano, sings the song "Roads" with the poet LI Oshanin says (synchronous) of his youth, about creativity, work on the song "Check out the guerrillas" with SY Lemeshev, converses with students enrolled in the People's singing school at the Central House of Artists. There have songs AG Novikov "Vasya Cornflower", "Anthem of Democratic Youth", "Darkie", "Football", "My Motherland".

Source description 1: The 80-year old composer Anatoly Grigoryevich Novikov is passing a field of rye.
A Moscow region lanscape.
Newsreel of 1941-1945.
Soviet Soldiers are crossing the river, pulling a fire unit, walking in the mud.
A truck is in mud.
Tanks are running across the field.
Soldiers are going up a hill.
A woman is giving milk to soldiers.
Soldiers are passing, a girl among them, a boy.
A panorama showing soldiers passing ruins.
A.Novikov and poet Lev Oshanin by the piano (in the Novikov’s country house), singing a song “Roads”.
A fir tree branch wet by rain drops.
Leaves with rain drops on them.
A.Novikov is passing through a park under umbrella, recording a melody.
Hands are writing on a newspaper.
A.Novikov is writing and singing a song.
A Ryazan region landscape– meadows, trees. Women are passing dressed in national costumes, singing.
Women in national costumes are in a house, tatting
Hands with bobbins, a panorama of a lace.
A panorama of a working ceramist.
A pot with an inscription “Skopin”.
A panorama of the town of Skopin.
A panorama of the house, where A.Novikov was born and lived.
A black and white photograph of Novikov’s family members.
Olga Andreevna Novikova (the composer’s brother wife) is telling about A.G.Novikov.
Pigeons on the roof, a panorama of a house with the inscription “the year 1910”
A.G.Novikov is telling about his family.
A newsreel:
A performance of the Red Banner Singing and Dancing Ensemble of songs and dancing of the Soviet Army: buglers are performing, A.V.Aleksandrov is conducting, choir and soloists are playing a song by A.Novikov “Vasya-Vasilyok” [‘Vasya-Basilisk”].
A competition of military district ensembles: the choir is playing a song “Vasya-Vasilyok” on the scene.
A.G.Novikov is a member of the board of adjudicators.
A window with flowers, it is raining outside.
A.G.Novikov and singer S.Y.Lemeshev are conversing by the piano in the Novikov’s country house.
The “Partisans’ departure” musical notes.

Source description 2: The front page of the notes with inscription presented by A.Novikov.
S.Y.Lemeshev is conversing with A.G.Novikov, singing.
A.G.Novikov is playing.
A panorama of flowered trees.
A panorama of a withered tree.
The tree is turning upside down (animated cartoon).
The sky, the sun is shining through the clouds.
The meeting of war veterans on the 9th of May at the square near the Bolshoy Theatre: women with medals are gathering in a circle, dancing.
A.G.Novikov is walking among the crowd, chatting with people.
Veterans of war (wearing uniforms with medals on them and in civilian clothing) are telling about songs of A.G.Novikov.
Flags on the columns of the Bolshoi Theatre, the panorama of people standing together.
Veterans of war are singing the song “Dorogi’ [“Roads”]. A panorama of A.Novikov directing.
Three military units’ nameplates are hanging on the tree.
A girl is giving flowers to a pilot – a veteran of the war.
A veteran of the war is holding a photograph of a front line friend.
The youth is watching.
A.G.Novikov is at home by the fireplace.
The singer Elena Obraztsova is singing “Mother’s arioso” (the music by Novikov) on the scene.
An iscription on the monument “Undying glory to countrymen, who sacred their lives in the name of motherland in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” The panorama of the medal of Honor. A panorama of pictures of people which died in the war.
A panorama of a blossoming tree.
A panorama of the festival of the youth and students; doves are flying.
A newsreel of the 1947 year:
Hands on the keys of a piano.
Young A.G.Novikov is playing and singing “Gimn demokraticheskoy molodezhi” [“The hymn of democratic youth”].
Participants of the world’s youth festival in Prague are marching with flags (1947).
A.G.Novikov is greeting the participants of the festival.
The hoisting of the flag.
Participants of the international youth festivals are passing by, waving, bearing banners; the spectators are greeting them.
A stadium, a parade of the festival’s participants.
Doves are flying over the Kremlin.
Russian scenery – field, road.
A panorama of a birch-tree.
Soloists and choir named after Pyatnitskiy are performing a song by Novikov “Otvechaet lyubovyu zemlya” [“The Land is responding with love”].
A.Novikov and the conductor are at a rehearsal.
The soloist Sophia Rotaru is singing a song “Smuglyanka” [“Swarthy girl”]
Soffits, a panorama of an auditorium.
Hands holding a tambourine.
The audience is applauding.

Source description 3: Sophia Rotaru is singing a song “Smuglyanka” [“Swarthy girl”] by A.Novikov.
A panorama of the applauding audience.
A trumpet.
A hand with a bow.
A hand is turning over notes.
The conductor Yu.Silantyev is rehearsing with children choir of The Pioneers Palace.
The choir and boys-soloists are singing “Football song” by Novikov.
A.G.Novikov is being present at the rehearsal.
A.G.Novikov is speaking about musical education.
Entrance exams in the Public Singing School which is under control of the Central House of Workers of Arts: enrollees by the door lettering “Quiet! Examinations are being held!”
School’s rector A.G.Novikov and other members of the jury are conversing with entrants.
a pianist by the piano.
Entrants are singing, dancing.
A.G.Novikov is rehearsing with a student of singers’ school, the girl is singing a song by Novikov “Black birch.”
A country house of Novikov.
A garden.
A.Novikov is working at his writing desk.
Novikov’s pictures of different periods of his life.
Workers by the pipe with pouring oil; a workwoman is putting together details; a worker by a bench board; builders are walking; the celebration of the First of May – sportsmen and demonstrates are marching.
A concert in the Kremlin Congress Palace – pioneers are singing “Marsh kommunisticheskih brigad” [“The March of Communistic brigades”] by Novikov, A.G.Novikov accompanies on a piano.
Pioneers and A.Novikov are applauding, they are shaking hands.
Moscow, the Kremlin.
A.G.Novikov is given flowers.
The Head of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR N.V.Podgornij is presenting a Golden Star of the Hero of the Socialist Labor and the Order of Lenin to Novikov.
A.G.Novikov is attaching the Order.
Birch-trees.
A summer view – a stack of hay, trees, a field.
A panorama of a flower.
A.G.Novikov is walking with his grand daughters in a forest.
Orchards are blossoming.
Roads.

Directors: Pavlov A.

Operators: Gorbatskiy V., Minaev A.

Script writers: Polyanovskiy E.

Announcer: Tatarskiy V.