A Group of Friends

A Group of Friends , 1987 (28:53)

Annotation: About fates, creative activities of outstanding poets, sculptors, writers during the Period of Stagnation ( also known as Brezhnevian Stagnation, the Stagnation Period, or the Era of Stagnation, refers to a period of socio-economic slowdown in the history of the Soviet Union that started when Leonid Brezhnev became the Head of the Soviet State). About Khudenko's experiment in the agriculture.

Film description: Writer D. Granin passes through the cemetery. The grave of the sculptor V. Sidura. Professor of Germany Karl Aynermaher says (sinhr.) on B. Siddur. Sculptures V. Sidura in the exhibition hall. Academician Fedorenko told (sinhr.) on economist Ivan Khudenko. The funeral director A. Efros. Fragments of the play "The Lower Depths" (sinhr.). Film director Andrei Tarkovsky and actress Terekhova. Andrei Tarkovsky at the filming of "Stalker". Playwright E. Gabrilovich says about Tarkovsky (sinhr.).

Source description 1: The Gothic Сathedral interior.
Hands are scattering broken glass.
A Yogi is lying on the pieces of broken glass.
A panorama of a sculpture by Vadim Sidur.
Organ flues.
The interior of the Cathedral.
A face of V. Ikonnikov, Kiev Chamber Chorus Head .
The writer Daniil Granin is walking by.
Roses behind barbed wire.
Prisoners walking by (behind the grates).
A panorama of a cemetery.
V. Ikonnik is conducting.
A golden daisy is in thecemetery.
A sculpture by Vadim Sidur.
A panorama of Vadim’s portrait.
The Professor from the Federal Republic of Germamy Karl Einermacher is walking along the cemetery.
A panorama of Vadim Sidur’s workshop.
Vadim Sidur in the cemetery at his wife’s grave.
Karl Einermacher is speaking.
A panorama of sculptures by Vadim Sidur in his workshop and at the exhibition.
A newsreel:
Vadim Sidur is working in his workshop.

Vadim Sidur’s workshop; the Exhibition Hall.
A sculpture.

Source description 2: The sun.
A portrait of the economist, innovator, experimentalist in agriculture Ivan Khudenko.
Economists are talking about Khudenko’s fate and innovation: Academician Fedorenko and Professor Belkin.
A harvesting machine is in the field.
A girl operator is at the devices.
A newsreel of the late 70-s:
A panorama of harvesting machines in the field.

Portraits of Khudenko of different ages.
A farm.
A newsreel:
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev and the First Secretary of the Kazakhstan Communist Party D. Kunayev are going by car.
People are in the streets.
A panorama of applauding people.
A panorama of Leonid Brezhnev at the tribune; taking bread and salt (a welcoming custom in Russia).

A sculpture by Vadim Sidur.
A harvesting machine is in a field.
A newsreel:
A harvesting machine operator.
A picture of Khudenko and his family.
A circus performance: a clown with a pig, cow and goat.
A panorama of the applauding audience in the hall.

A harvesting machine is in the field.
A picture of Khudenko.
The file with Khudenko’s personal records.
A portrait of Khudenko.
A farm.
A panorama of a mountain landscape.
A scrap.
A panorama of the Congress Presidium.
A panorama of a tree.
A harvesting machine.
A panorama of barbed wire.
A panorama of a building and a prison courtyard.
A panorama of a scene from a play.
A portrait of the theatre director Anatoly Efros on the stage.

Source description 3: A newsreel:
A panorama of Yakovlev and other actors by Efros’s coffin.
Portraits of the poets Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
A picture: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold.
A newsreel:
A crowd of people.
A coffin with Mayakovsky’s body.
Boris Pasternak is standing.
Utkin, Yefremov, Yakovlev, Kalyagin are standing at Efros’s coffin.
The USSR Minister of Culture Lunacharsky is speaking at the tribune.
Rozov is at the microphone.
A panorama of Efros’s coffin being carried.
A panorama of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s funeral.

Ikonnikov’s Chorus is singing.
Portraits of the poets Marina Tsvetayeva, Osip Mandelhtam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak.
The poet Arseny Tarkovsky’s face.
Portraits of the poets.
A bust of Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Arseny Tarkovsky is sitting.
A panorama of cherry branches.
A church domes.
The painting “Troitsa” [“Holy Trinity”] by Andrey Rublev.
A portrait of Andrey Tarkovsky.
A picture of Andrey Tarkovsky.
A closing door.
Icons.
A panorama of the Bell Tower and the Cathedral.
A window.
Arseny Tarkovsky.
Pictures of Andrey Tarkovsky during shooting of the feature films “Andrey Rublev” and “Stalker”.
Andrey Tarkovsky and Margarita Terekhova at the shooting.
A panorama of Arseny Tarkovsky and the playwright Gabrilovich sitting.
Gabrilovich is speaking.
Scissors cutting bushes.
The writer D. Granin is standing at the wall; he is speaking.
A hair-cutting machine.
A man with a soldering bit behind the bars.
Prisoners are walking in line, they are drinking water, catching fish in the aquarium.
A toy fish in a hand.
A prison through the bars.
Stands of the stadium.
A cat is walking along the barbed wire.
A meeting between a father and his imprisoned son.
A panorama of Ikonnikov’s Chorus singing on the stage.

Directors: Lyakhoveckiy M.

Operators: Minkin M.

Script writers: Margolina I., Lyakhoveckiy M.