. . .to Comrade …Zhdanov [Soviet statesman].

. . .to Comrade …Zhdanov [Soviet statesman]. , 1989 (29:13)

Annotation: On Stalin's associate A.Zhdanov, and about massive crimes and nefarious practices of that time.

Film description: The story of the author's life and work of Zhdanov, the "zhdanovschine" in philosophy, history, culture and literature.

Source description 1: A panorama of trains passing by, a plate on the railway station building with an inscription “Zhdanov”.
Subway station “Zhdanovskaya” in Moscow, a train is passing by.
A sign on a building: “Zhdanovsky gorkom” [“Zhdanov Municipal Committee”].
Winter, a panorama of a Board of Honor in the street.
A panorama of a banner.
A plate with a street name is being replaced on Zhdanov Street.
A panorama of a monument to Andrei Zhdanov [the sculpture is cased].
Newsreel of 1926:
Funerals of Felix Dzerzhinsky: Iosif Stalin, Nikolai Bukharin, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, Valerian Kuybyshev, Aleksei Rykov are passing by in the crowd near Dzerzhinsky’s coffin.
People are walking along the street.
A cavalry is going by.

Photographs of party organizer, important apparatchik, expert in ideology, history and culture Andrei Zhdanov of various ages.
A phoograph: Iosif Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov, Andrei Zhdanov; Joseph Stalin, Andrei Zhdanov, Mikhail Kalinin on the platform of the Mausoleum.
Newsreel:
Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin, Andrei Zhdanov are sitting in the hall.
Andrei Zhdanov is speaking.
A plate with old inscriptions is being broken.
People are digging the ground, removing stones in winter.
A rood is lying on the snow.
An article in the newspaper.
Andrei Zhdanov and others are among the people.
A photograph: Andrei Zhdanov and pioneers and sailors; Andrei Zhdanov is making a speech; Andrei Zhdanov and Maxim Gorky; Maxim Gorky is writing.
A pictorial portrait of Maxim Gorky.
Newsreel:
A woman is working at a printing press.
Newsreel of 1940:
The Estonian and Soviet flags on a tower.
A demonstration in honor of establishment of the Soviet power in Tallinn.
Andrei Zhdanov and others are greeting people from a balcony.
A band is playing.
Zhdanov’s signature in a document.
Mass repressions in Estonia.
A photograph: dead bodies in the snow, a body is put in a coffin; a body is being carried, coffins are lying.
A photograph: Andrei Zhdanov, Mikhail Kalinin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikita Khrushchev; Andrei Zhdanov and Joseph Stalin.
Newsreel:
А.А. Zhdanov is walking along the corridor, opening a door, speaking at a table with a map on it, making a speech in an office.
Andrei Zhdanov and others are applauding.
Andrei Zhdanov is giving rewards; a man is examining an order, another man is attaching the reward; those who have been rewarded are congratulating each other.
Second Secretary of Leningrad Oblast Committee and Municipal Committee Aleksei Kuznetsov who was shot dead in 1950 is in the office at the meeting near Zhdanov.
A photograph: an order is being attached to Andrei Zhdanov.

Newsreel:
Andrei Zhdanov is going together with military men, making a speech.
A formation of soldiers.
A panorama of tankmen standing.
An airplane is flying by.
Newsreel of 1945:
A moving-aircraft view of Moscow, flying over Gorky Street.
The Red Square, airplanes are flying by.
General of Aviation Vasily Stalin is at the wheel of the flagship airplane.

Source description 2: Animation: a desk calendar is being turned over.
Newsreel of 1945:
Lavrenty Beria and others are walking by along a street in Berlin, approaching a car, going by car.
Destroyed streets of Berlin.

A car is going over the centre of Moscow.
Entry in the gates of Kremlin.
Mikhail Kalinin is giving a reward to Andrei Zhdanov.
Vyacheslav Molotov.
Andrei Zhdanov is smiling, a panorama of Mikhail Kalinin and Vyacheslav Molotov.
Andrei Zhdanov is making a speech.
The audience is applauding, standing up.
A printing press is operating, newspapers are being printed out.
A building of the Gorky Motion Picture Studio, a man is going out.
Film director Leonid Lukov and other cinematographers are working at a table.
Film in a motion picture instrument.
Film directors Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg are at a cutting table.
Hands are putting film in a box.
Film director Vsevolod Pudovkin is at the motion picture instrument.
An editing table.
Film director Mikhail Romm as an English queen during casting for movie “Ivan Grozni" [“Ivan the Terrible”].
Film director Sergei Eisenstein is during a motion picture pickup.
Magazine “Voprosy filosofii” [“Problems of Philosophy”].
There are books and an alarm clock on a table in the room.
Ill Sergei Eisenstein is lying in bed.
Newspaper “Pravda” [“The Truth”].
A photograph: Andrei Zhdanov, his wife, Molotov, others, and Iosif Stalin.
Stairs in the building of the Leningrad Writers’ Club, a panorama of a carved door leading into the hall.
An empty hall, a panorama of chairs.
Newsreel of the 40s:
A meeting deprecating men of letters in the hall of the Writers’ Club, a spokesman is making a speech.
A banner with an inscription: “Our Soviet literature lives and must live in people’s interests, in interests of the Motherland”.
Bas-reliefs on the wall.
Poet Demyan Bedny is making a speech.
The audience is applauding.

A dwelling house, a panorama of the window, autumn.
A cemetery in winter.
A panorama of a grave of writer Zoshchenko.
A panorama of Mikhail Zoshchenko’s photographs.
Photographs of Anna Akhmatova of various ages.
A panorama of an old building in Leningrad.
Building # 9 at the Griboyedov Canal.
A panorama of Anna Akhmatova’s grave in winter.
Newsreel:
Hands are putting down notes.
Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is at work: he is writing, playing a piano.
Hands on the keys.
Dmitri Shostakovich and his wife and a child.
Composer Sergei Prokofiev is at work.
A meeting, a spokesman is making a speech.
The audience is standing up and applauding.

A cover of a handbill for a play of an Estonian theatre.
Books.
A scene from the play.
Shostakovich and Prokofiev in Stalin’s apartment.

Source description 3: Newsreel:
A bas-relief of Joseph Stalin.
A sculptor is working at a bas-relief.
A sculpture of Stalin at the exhibition.
Film director Ivan Pyryev during pickup of movie “Kubanskie Kazaki” [“Kuban Cossacks”].
Pickup of mass scenes.
A fragment of movie “Padenie Berlina” [“Collapse of Berlin”].
Film director Mikhail Chiaureli and actor Mikheil Gelovani as Stalin during pickup.
A calendar with number “21”.
A portrait of Joseph Stalin.
The President of the Academy of Science, physicist Sergey Vavilov is writing down jubilee congratulations to Stalin.
Academicians: chemist Alexander Nesmeyanov and biologist Trofim Lysenko are signing the congratulations.
The congratulations album with signatures; the album is being opened, hands are putting a signature down.
The following writers are putting down their signatures under the congratulations: Nikolay Tikhonov, Anatoly Safronov, Ilya Erenburg, Michail Sholokhov, poets Sergey Mikhalkov, Mikhail Konchalovsky, composers Tikhon Khrennikov, Dmitri Shostakovich.
Portraits of the party leaders on a building.
Elections: Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov are voting; Stalin is walking off the ballot-box.
Lavrenty Beria, Malenkov, Kliment Voroshilov and his wife, Lazar Kaganovich, Andrey Vyshinsky, Andrei Zhdanov are voting.
Family photographs of Zhdanov of various ages.
Newsreel of 1948:
Funerals of Andrei Zhdanov, mourning flags.
Members of the funeral commission, Beria, Molotov and others are passing by.
A train with mourning garlands is approaching.
The guard of honor.
A coffin with Zhdanov’s body in it is being carried out of the train; Beria, Molotov, Budyonny and others are carrying the coffin.
A portrait of Zhdanov.
A coffin with Zhdanov’s body in it is being carried in the building of the House of Unions.
Zhdanov’s relatives in the hall.
Joseph Stalin is going out of a car, walking by.
Stalin, Beria and others at Zhdanov’s coffin.

A monument to Andrei Zhdanov at the Kremlin wall.
A panorama of the Kremlin wall in summer.
A plate on the burial place of Andrey Vyshinsky.
A panorama of busts.
A guest platform.
A panorama of the empty Red Square.

Directors: Babak M.

Operators: Filatov I.

Script writers: Itskov I., Savickiy N.