1 00:00:50,149 --> 00:00:54,560 They were socialist label, red banner of labor, 2 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,134 order of the October Revolution, 3 00:00:56,662 --> 00:01:00,084 People's Artist of the USSR 4 00:01:00,831 --> 00:01:04,635 Stalin prizes... 5, International Peace Prize 5 00:01:06,808 --> 00:01:10,016 Gray trash, meaningless. 6 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:29,781 Look, the ravens are here 7 00:01:32,321 --> 00:01:34,298 even claiming our corpses. 8 00:01:34,498 --> 00:01:35,516 Oh, something they feel! 9 00:01:36,366 --> 00:01:40,007 Their state composer is dead. 10 00:01:40,207 --> 00:01:41,463 I am dead. 11 00:01:43,913 --> 00:01:45,100 How else should I be smiling? 12 00:02:04,128 --> 00:02:07,908 TESTIMONY 13 00:02:17,812 --> 00:02:19,626 Those hands... 14 00:02:19,826 --> 00:02:22,465 Policemen' hands. 15 00:02:23,584 --> 00:02:28,074 what tortures of those eyes seen stand brest on with gongs 16 00:02:29,504 --> 00:02:32,460 from your heroic exploits in unforgettable... 17 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:34,652 What year was it? 18 00:02:35,754 --> 00:02:38,903 verging what wretched Baltic state 19 00:02:39,103 --> 00:02:40,307 "Et tu Brute" ("Even you, Brutus?"-"Julius Cezar") 20 00:02:40,507 --> 00:02:42,968 Best job forward 21 00:02:47,350 --> 00:02:51,653 Girl on the left-traveler from the West 22 00:02:51,853 --> 00:02:54,154 upmarket freedom fighter 23 00:02:54,354 --> 00:02:57,082 Need you like a hole in the back of the neck 24 00:03:14,114 --> 00:03:15,509 Citizen artist. 25 00:03:15,709 --> 00:03:20,044 After what my country has done to me 26 00:03:20,244 --> 00:03:23,496 Wow... what does it matter? 27 00:03:23,970 --> 00:03:25,489 Only composer? 28 00:03:25,689 --> 00:03:28,727 what use to the world is he? 29 00:03:30,946 --> 00:03:33,363 Time to be gone, goodbye widow 30 00:03:34,232 --> 00:03:36,664 daughter... son.. 31 00:03:36,864 --> 00:03:39,152 Goodbye friends! 32 00:03:43,689 --> 00:03:46,421 Whose music is that? 33 00:03:46,621 --> 00:03:48,530 Foul! That's me. 34 00:03:48,730 --> 00:03:52,557 8 th Symphony. The third movement. 35 00:04:04,835 --> 00:04:06,824 Yeah, noises in the head 36 00:04:08,241 --> 00:04:09,738 What use to the living is that? 37 00:04:37,629 --> 00:04:38,630 Shostakovich! 38 00:04:58,948 --> 00:05:03,770 I'm sorry professor Glazunov.. I ran 39 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:05,092 I'm sorry 40 00:05:05,292 --> 00:05:06,595 So early? 41 00:05:06,795 --> 00:05:08,099 No trams. 42 00:05:08,593 --> 00:05:11,540 ... 43 00:05:11,740 --> 00:05:14,687 ... 44 00:05:14,887 --> 00:05:17,868 .. 45 00:05:18,068 --> 00:05:20,600 What did Glazunov know about trams? 46 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,714 His mother wrapped him in a coat .. in every morning 47 00:05:23,914 --> 00:05:26,463 See, my boy doesn't catch cold 48 00:05:26,873 --> 00:05:29,540 "I must wake up earlier", I said 49 00:05:30,917 --> 00:05:32,918 If there were more trams.. 50 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:41,211 Do you think your father... 51 00:05:51,189 --> 00:05:53,981 My father did not abuse his access to state supplies 52 00:05:54,181 --> 00:05:58,666 I was not a go-between we did nothing we could be shot for. 53 00:06:00,157 --> 00:06:01,882 The worry was shortening my life, I said. 54 00:06:05,891 --> 00:06:06,848 I dreaded the tram stop 55 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:12,034 If at last the tram did come the people behind me always shoved me aside. 56 00:06:12,234 --> 00:06:13,917 The tram went with them not me. 57 00:06:14,117 --> 00:06:16,039 I was not made for fighting like that 58 00:06:18,618 --> 00:06:21,524 Damn thing! 59 00:06:24,337 --> 00:06:25,767 Krastinka! 60 00:06:26,252 --> 00:06:30,999 "I" box. "I" box. 61 00:06:32,025 --> 00:06:33,573 It begins with "K". 62 00:06:33,773 --> 00:06:35,837 "I" from "Insignificant". 63 00:06:37,828 --> 00:06:42,571 See you don't end like that! 64 00:07:01,431 --> 00:07:03,853 Where's this? Kremlin wall? 65 00:07:04,574 --> 00:07:06,018 Doubt it. 66 00:07:07,156 --> 00:07:09,105 Nowhere near him, that's for sure. 67 00:07:11,406 --> 00:07:14,954 ... with Khrushchev 68 00:07:15,588 --> 00:07:20,959 and Stanislavski and Chekhov and Tzar Joseph's wretched wife 69 00:07:25,757 --> 00:07:27,758 The awkward dead. 70 00:07:35,364 --> 00:07:40,059 Once there was a Tsar of Moscow: Joseph. 71 00:07:41,322 --> 00:07:44,733 Joseph the terrible. Father of all the Russias. 72 00:07:44,933 --> 00:07:51,549 Great gardener who dug the revolution's grave. 73 00:07:54,552 --> 00:07:57,252 Shoeshine boy from the Caucasus, 74 00:08:00,216 --> 00:08:04,115 lover of children Pox bids on his face and neck 75 00:08:04,315 --> 00:08:05,875 little fat hands 76 00:08:06,075 --> 00:08:09,332 one smaller than the other 77 00:08:09,532 --> 00:08:12,627 and the boots that gave him such a kick to wear. 78 00:08:16,422 --> 00:08:23,114 oh, he brooded 79 00:08:23,314 --> 00:08:25,525 and in his brooding our wretched century's broke its back. 80 00:08:36,190 --> 00:08:38,480 Vania, it's the music that matters, not me! 81 00:08:40,012 --> 00:08:42,125 They love the score, not me! 82 00:09:02,224 --> 00:09:03,728 They won't you get away with that! 83 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,650 Why don't start a new tradition, the composer disappears? 84 00:09:07,939 --> 00:09:10,239 The public applauds the composer! 85 00:09:32,490 --> 00:09:34,270 Your first victory! 86 00:09:40,434 --> 00:09:42,495 Only a boy, damn it! 87 00:09:42,695 --> 00:09:47,288 With this symphony.. makes him even more of a politician 88 00:09:49,884 --> 00:09:51,060 To Shostakovich! 89 00:09:52,129 --> 00:09:54,091 First composer of the revolution! 90 00:10:03,966 --> 00:10:05,960 Thank you, Mikhail 91 00:10:08,502 --> 00:10:10,682 Difficult? 92 00:10:13,401 --> 00:10:15,702 Red Army Commander? 93 00:10:15,902 --> 00:10:18,829 .... I'm interested in Sadler 94 00:10:23,273 --> 00:10:24,296 Rubicund all right? 95 00:10:24,658 --> 00:10:28,328 Crossing the Kronstadt rebellion I lost my best friend, you know 96 00:10:28,528 --> 00:10:31,111 Son of one of the leaders at Kronstadt 97 00:10:32,047 --> 00:10:33,009 Wasn't necessary. 98 00:10:33,395 --> 00:10:35,393 Stay friends with him 99 00:10:35,593 --> 00:10:38,151 He is close to the center and his Leningrad as you are 100 00:10:39,154 --> 00:10:40,586 As district secretary ... 101 00:10:42,041 --> 00:10:43,934 Take care, it comes "The battleship Potemkin" 102 00:10:44,377 --> 00:10:46,203 .. 103 00:10:46,403 --> 00:10:49,033 .. and you can like symphonies like that? 104 00:10:49,233 --> 00:10:53,538 Madama Lupinskaya, how irresistible you look this evening! 105 00:10:53,909 --> 00:10:56,453 More than one can say for you 106 00:10:56,653 --> 00:10:58,179 They do as I do .. 107 00:11:02,046 --> 00:11:03,474 What did Mikhail mean? 108 00:11:04,313 --> 00:11:05,950 Composer of the revolution-difficult? 109 00:11:07,188 --> 00:11:08,695 Music and revolution go together? 110 00:11:15,947 --> 00:11:19,514 you already orchestrate better than.. 111 00:11:19,714 --> 00:11:23,346 With respect, you're wrong comrade Meyerhold. 112 00:11:23,546 --> 00:11:26,023 I don't orchestrate, I hear. 113 00:11:27,767 --> 00:11:28,516 Yes? 114 00:11:28,716 --> 00:11:32,142 Prokofiev orchestrates from a piano score. 115 00:11:32,342 --> 00:11:34,463 I write for the orchestra. 116 00:11:34,686 --> 00:11:36,944 I didn't like all of symphony but... 117 00:11:41,186 --> 00:11:44,142 They were other pieces premiere tonight 118 00:11:44,342 --> 00:11:47,123 Both quite eclipsed. Not easy for them. 119 00:11:47,924 --> 00:11:49,789 Now you are wrong. 120 00:11:49,989 --> 00:11:53,567 You see, they are not significant 121 00:11:55,934 --> 00:11:58,265 What a night of music for my theatre 122 00:11:58,465 --> 00:12:01,571 you have to be in Moscow, of course 123 00:12:01,772 --> 00:12:03,375 Petersburg people ! 124 00:12:03,575 --> 00:12:06,021 You can't play piano in the cinema forever, 125 00:12:06,367 --> 00:12:08,924 You have a mother and two sisters, you must earn! 126 00:12:09,835 --> 00:12:13,848 I have to stage King Lear among other plays, of course 127 00:12:14,675 --> 00:12:19,316 King Lear is fabulous God ... 128 00:12:23,597 --> 00:12:26,743 "The storm"... 129 00:12:28,756 --> 00:12:30,266 What a play! 130 00:12:55,804 --> 00:13:00,411 That Tsar of Moscow... oh he hated Petersburg! 131 00:13:01,102 --> 00:13:03,164 Window on the world. 132 00:13:03,364 --> 00:13:07,075 One day he came to close the window. 133 00:13:08,731 --> 00:13:09,902 Lock it out. 134 00:13:40,898 --> 00:13:42,094 (Kirov death) 135 00:13:42,294 --> 00:13:49,751 In a party HQ corridor mysteriously unguarded at the time. 136 00:14:36,586 --> 00:14:41,585 Which new powers are already drafted 137 00:14:42,106 --> 00:14:48,557 decreed and dated on his desk in Moscow. 138 00:15:29,314 --> 00:15:32,205 It was freezing medals 139 00:15:32,405 --> 00:15:35,402 The thing has been my honeymoon here 140 00:15:35,602 --> 00:15:37,529 Did mrs Igor like it? 141 00:15:37,793 --> 00:15:40,155 I didn't bring her along here and let he seem to break 142 00:15:40,355 --> 00:15:42,116 Your wife looks like Stalin 143 00:15:42,566 --> 00:15:45,239 Yes, I think her beard is a bit longer. 144 00:15:45,439 --> 00:15:47,651 Has got a better way too 145 00:18:03,193 --> 00:18:05,859 Vania 146 00:18:23,113 --> 00:18:27,376 Someone saw your opera last night. 147 00:18:37,580 --> 00:18:42,798 Dissonant, grinding, screaming, gnashing 148 00:18:42,998 --> 00:18:45,918 crashing and screeching 149 00:18:46,510 --> 00:18:48,188 You're missing the train! Dimitri! 150 00:18:48,415 --> 00:18:50,187 Negative? 151 00:19:06,026 --> 00:19:12,425 For the composer this could end very badly 152 00:20:32,220 --> 00:20:35,051 The most radical experiment in human history 153 00:20:35,252 --> 00:20:38,622 and it did succeed where all the rest have failed 154 00:20:38,822 --> 00:20:41,450 the revolutions set all the creativity free 155 00:20:41,650 --> 00:20:44,535 Now he tells me to stomp on my own creativity! 156 00:20:44,735 --> 00:20:45,973 Should have looked around you . 157 00:20:47,838 --> 00:20:49,838 New people were mean to power 158 00:21:06,448 --> 00:21:07,746 You know the man, you talk to him 159 00:21:14,822 --> 00:21:15,604 Understand, Dimitri 160 00:21:17,794 --> 00:21:19,618 You're being licked into shape 161 00:21:22,023 --> 00:21:23,157 The great soviet composer 162 00:21:24,942 --> 00:21:26,928 oh yes, the man has judgments . 163 00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:31,820 You had this new piece in rehearsal, ever symphonies 164 00:21:34,687 --> 00:21:36,084 Some of the players are being difficult 165 00:21:37,816 --> 00:21:39,002 News gets back 166 00:21:39,302 --> 00:21:42,387 Orchestral players of Smaug They always give the work a hard time 167 00:21:43,437 --> 00:21:45,117 These players are frightened 168 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:51,668 This new sound of yours... 169 00:21:51,868 --> 00:21:53,619 is violent, black 170 00:21:55,418 --> 00:21:57,102 noises that crash 171 00:21:57,302 --> 00:21:59,185 It is to negative 172 00:22:01,737 --> 00:22:03,400 It is what it is. 173 00:22:05,418 --> 00:22:07,684 Such music speaks of conflict 174 00:22:09,660 --> 00:22:11,837 The revolution has resolved all comfort 175 00:22:14,053 --> 00:22:16,161 Life is merry, our leader tells us so. 176 00:22:16,430 --> 00:22:18,430 Inspired with joy 177 00:22:22,302 --> 00:22:23,568 A symphony must rejoice. 178 00:22:23,768 --> 00:22:25,642 I write what I hear from within myself 179 00:22:26,606 --> 00:22:30,349 which comes from who I am in this world in which I am or else I have no meaning. 180 00:22:33,284 --> 00:22:35,532 This world you're in... 181 00:22:39,132 --> 00:22:40,872 You're in Russia 182 00:22:50,251 --> 00:22:54,370 Stalin is helping Hitler to destroy the communists in Germany 183 00:22:56,069 --> 00:22:57,265 why? 184 00:22:57,739 --> 00:22:59,736 We could help Hitler 185 00:22:59,936 --> 00:23:01,334 it is obscene! 186 00:23:02,055 --> 00:23:04,109 When Hitler has sworn to obliterate this from the earth 187 00:23:05,828 --> 00:23:08,547 Stalin might help him to do that, too 188 00:23:10,082 --> 00:23:12,235 We have a planning meeting: 189 00:23:13,516 --> 00:23:15,440 the defense of Leningrad 190 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,418 We must have anti-aircraft rockets 191 00:23:19,985 --> 00:23:21,275 He doesn't believe in rockets 192 00:23:21,471 --> 00:23:23,271 Because I do ... 193 00:23:23,855 --> 00:23:25,355 He needs me to be wrong 194 00:23:27,248 --> 00:23:28,536 I have talents, he has none . 195 00:23:29,321 --> 00:23:31,579 So I pretend 196 00:23:33,153 --> 00:23:34,730 Guns, bla bla bla the need for so many guns 197 00:23:35,105 --> 00:23:36,508 bla bla bla 198 00:23:39,477 --> 00:23:42,038 Young Igor chips in my second-in-command is briefed 199 00:23:42,238 --> 00:23:44,679 "With respects comrade secretary general" 200 00:23:44,879 --> 00:23:46,084 "with respects the comrade marshal" 201 00:23:46,431 --> 00:23:47,819 lacks visions 202 00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:50,999 He hasn't foreseen the possibility of air attack 203 00:23:51,997 --> 00:23:53,122 world perfect 204 00:23:56,517 --> 00:23:57,517 really 205 00:23:58,934 --> 00:24:04,782 Is he the great helmsman, genius 206 00:24:05,921 --> 00:24:07,303 word to be used, don't leave him 207 00:24:10,171 --> 00:24:12,705 Lacks vision, does he? 208 00:24:14,627 --> 00:24:15,899 That glint in his eye.. 209 00:24:18,748 --> 00:24:21,618 Adolf rises rockets 210 00:24:25,255 --> 00:24:28,301 Suppose documents will discover originating in Berlin 211 00:24:30,949 --> 00:24:36,604 implicating me in conspiracy with the Nazi High Command 212 00:24:38,060 --> 00:24:39,369 So easy 213 00:24:40,938 --> 00:24:42,714 The pretext Stalin needs to have me gone 214 00:24:44,225 --> 00:24:47,859 Cities cronies in the saddle for ................ 215 00:24:48,059 --> 00:24:51,686 cavalry T heads and think we can gallop to the Brandenburg Gate 216 00:24:54,116 --> 00:24:56,096 Well, Russia would be safer with their horses in command 217 00:24:59,378 --> 00:25:04,440 no rockets then 218 00:25:04,561 --> 00:25:07,677 no marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, 219 00:25:07,877 --> 00:25:09,046 no Red Army. 220 00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:15,031 Leningrad naked the bombardment from the sky 221 00:25:21,291 --> 00:25:29,892 When that happens thanks Stalin, remember me. 222 00:25:32,874 --> 00:25:34,950 My poor troubles matter very little. 223 00:25:35,295 --> 00:25:36,595 You matter very much. 224 00:25:39,138 --> 00:25:41,591 .. they must eat dumb soldiers can only obey 225 00:25:41,968 --> 00:25:43,968 You have to be true. 226 00:25:45,754 --> 00:25:48,482 That's your contract for the living 227 00:25:50,469 --> 00:25:55,320 You are the one voice by which the truth may still be spoken 228 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,974 and which the people will know for true. 229 00:26:01,848 --> 00:26:04,127 You could stay alive that somehow. 230 00:26:10,007 --> 00:26:11,381 Get back in the saddle, now. 231 00:26:11,978 --> 00:26:13,750 Use this crisis to your own end. 232 00:26:14,698 --> 00:26:17,471 No one would claim that my early music has been perfect. 233 00:26:18,002 --> 00:26:19,901 That new piece of yours it could be. 234 00:26:20,949 --> 00:26:26,508 But draw discreetly. The gesture would be favorably observed 235 00:26:27,236 --> 00:26:30,327 then start a new symphony 236 00:26:31,270 --> 00:26:34,594 One that wings through darkness into light 237 00:26:35,395 --> 00:26:37,395 A program for the party 238 00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:41,776 I feel no light in my heart 239 00:26:41,976 --> 00:26:44,235 You're a composer that's for you to resolve. 240 00:26:45,985 --> 00:26:48,206 But be sure that energy speak to the people 241 00:26:49,068 --> 00:26:51,068 Not only to yourself. 242 00:26:54,643 --> 00:26:55,619 See? 243 00:26:57,410 --> 00:26:59,240 Finland. 244 00:27:00,653 --> 00:27:04,309 We could meet there for our forward basis. if should anyone attack us. 245 00:27:06,042 --> 00:27:09,901 Finland is our friend. We have a special relationship. 246 00:27:10,113 --> 00:27:11,980 And if she denies his bases will attack her. 247 00:27:12,180 --> 00:27:13,917 That's what special relationship means. 248 00:27:17,653 --> 00:27:19,653 Night is coming 249 00:27:25,543 --> 00:27:28,355 Today we condemn and murder others. 250 00:27:30,552 --> 00:27:33,641 Tomorrow we ourselves are condemned and murdered. 251 00:30:16,620 --> 00:30:18,796 Once I believed 252 00:30:18,996 --> 00:30:23,038 we Russians do, we believe 253 00:30:25,113 --> 00:30:30,823 and believe simple things. 254 00:30:35,922 --> 00:30:37,603 After the revolution 255 00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:43,099 Russian soldiers won't kill russian children anymore, we said. 256 00:30:46,023 --> 00:30:49,169 And apples will be for all alike. 257 00:31:18,060 --> 00:31:20,060 Mama's at work. 258 00:34:05,198 --> 00:34:07,894 they're gave is loosely to the journalists 259 00:34:08,094 --> 00:34:10,228 using local coffee I suppose 260 00:34:10,428 --> 00:34:13,286 who came to us and landed like a chicken in the soup 261 00:34:50,932 --> 00:34:51,708 Our brave hero.. 262 00:34:51,908 --> 00:34:54,816 guessed the enemie's intentions , a good bound he was free.. 263 00:34:58,016 --> 00:35:02,933 ride across the valleys...the rivers.. 264 00:35:03,133 --> 00:35:06,272 going on top, this eagle... 265 00:35:07,973 --> 00:35:10,413 At breakday he guessed the enemy's intentions. 266 00:35:10,613 --> 00:35:12,748 With a good bound... he was free 267 00:35:14,975 --> 00:35:18,751 flying cross all the time , cross all these valleys 268 00:35:18,952 --> 00:35:21,955 rivers, fields... 269 00:35:22,155 --> 00:35:24,893 Already guessed the enemy intentions 270 00:35:25,093 --> 00:35:26,584 with good bound ... 271 00:35:26,784 --> 00:35:28,881 Of course this is only a rough cut 272 00:35:29,338 --> 00:35:31,181 but you'll see the problem 273 00:35:43,571 --> 00:35:44,295 Well ? 274 00:35:45,912 --> 00:35:47,272 You don't see ? 275 00:35:49,775 --> 00:35:52,013 "Now great heroe already guessed the enemy's intention 276 00:35:52,419 --> 00:35:57,553 and with a good bound it was free" 277 00:35:57,754 --> 00:36:01,752 It's a quote! A tribute! 278 00:36:01,952 --> 00:36:05,826 Something our comrade leader will later write it himself! 279 00:36:06,026 --> 00:36:09,822 in his short history he see a Caspian campaign 280 00:36:10,022 --> 00:36:12,057 I don't remember the exact battle and 281 00:36:12,257 --> 00:36:13,554 The problem is... Sorry 282 00:36:14,495 --> 00:36:18,782 "Cobar hero of the Caucasus" 283 00:36:18,983 --> 00:36:23,969 This implies that our comrade leader's revolutionary manner 284 00:36:24,169 --> 00:36:27,269 had its roots in a boy's own adventure story 285 00:36:27,469 --> 00:36:29,311 How could the writer be so indempt? 286 00:36:31,653 --> 00:36:32,368 but he changed the book 287 00:36:33,462 --> 00:36:34,609 Director's problem 288 00:36:34,809 --> 00:36:36,911 You'll have to change the music. 289 00:36:37,111 --> 00:36:39,443 Composer's problem. 290 00:36:43,049 --> 00:36:45,419 Our leader is like God. 291 00:36:46,135 --> 00:36:48,102 We do not know his face 292 00:36:48,302 --> 00:36:50,660 He phones people yes 293 00:36:52,448 --> 00:36:52,995 all ours 294 00:36:53,195 --> 00:36:56,870 If he would only write one could show a letter 295 00:36:58,232 --> 00:37:00,294 Such-and-such the Mountain Eagle said to me: 296 00:37:00,767 --> 00:37:01,444 Thus was his word to me 297 00:37:03,585 --> 00:37:04,941 At last a phone call. 298 00:37:06,315 --> 00:37:07,129 It leaves no evidence. 299 00:37:08,782 --> 00:37:10,127 At least you had a phone call. 300 00:37:12,749 --> 00:37:14,363 Out when it came 301 00:37:16,485 --> 00:37:19,013 ... a whole week after 302 00:37:21,546 --> 00:37:23,382 Our comrade leader doesn't ring a second time 303 00:37:27,196 --> 00:37:29,748 With Gankoff , he met him, He met him? 304 00:37:32,117 --> 00:37:34,920 Private viewing in the Kremlin to Gankoff latest masterpiece 305 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,284 Who's the director? 306 00:37:39,384 --> 00:37:41,611 Let's have him over, join the viewing party 307 00:37:42,876 --> 00:37:44,187 Start running the film 308 00:37:44,822 --> 00:37:47,378 Comrade leader at the back 309 00:37:47,578 --> 00:37:50,277 To Gankof two rows down in the front 310 00:37:50,477 --> 00:37:51,751 death looked around 311 00:37:53,253 --> 00:37:58,239 Every suffer from the leader, every move to Gankof, death looked around ... 312 00:37:58,439 --> 00:38:01,839 doesn't hear a message brought in at the black 313 00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:04,837 All that Gankof hears is: 314 00:38:05,837 --> 00:38:07,837 "what shit is this?" 315 00:38:08,068 --> 00:38:09,818 and falls flat on the floor and faints. 316 00:38:12,077 --> 00:38:14,621 Well you would, wouldn't? Carrying him out 317 00:38:14,821 --> 00:38:16,490 sweap down the floor, clean his pants 318 00:38:17,414 --> 00:38:19,711 They 've got room for that. 319 00:38:20,670 --> 00:38:25,664 "hmm" says the leader I' m not inviting film directors anymore" 320 00:38:26,711 --> 00:38:28,065 They get carried away. 321 00:38:28,945 --> 00:38:33,777 Are we writing tonight ? 322 00:38:33,977 --> 00:38:37,871 I am a professional of the Petersburg school 323 00:38:41,730 --> 00:38:47,206 Mikhail and other officers asked to report for questioning 324 00:38:47,406 --> 00:38:50,684 Wives and the mistresses helped with inquiries too - 325 00:38:53,077 --> 00:38:54,941 Used to be a joke about Mikhail. 326 00:38:55,672 --> 00:38:57,567 At his funeral there were so many widows 327 00:38:58,116 --> 00:38:59,479 each thinking she's the only one. 328 00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:03,427 well well 329 00:39:04,702 --> 00:39:07,911 and a special education for the children of such men 330 00:39:26,036 --> 00:39:28,830 Look at him : nose without a man 331 00:39:33,747 --> 00:39:35,780 Name?... 332 00:39:35,980 --> 00:39:39,539 From his wife. 333 00:39:57,434 --> 00:39:59,515 Meyerhold, too, helped with the inquieries. 334 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,208 Note the overnight bag we all kept one packed ready 335 00:40:04,509 --> 00:40:07,808 warm underwear, toothbrush, copier Pushkin 336 00:40:08,129 --> 00:40:10,265 might be gone sometime. 337 00:40:11,681 --> 00:40:16,599 Never got around to his King Lear 338 00:40:16,857 --> 00:40:21,167 His wife up there, a large actress, selfish on stage 339 00:40:21,367 --> 00:40:24,585 right now they're cutting out her eyes with knives 340 00:40:25,302 --> 00:40:28,784 Someone must hear, you know us Russians 341 00:40:28,985 --> 00:40:33,581 no smoke without fire not the long since I too would have said 342 00:40:33,781 --> 00:40:38,227 She must have done something. 343 00:40:46,535 --> 00:40:49,350 Humanists from the West 344 00:40:50,468 --> 00:40:53,799 Utopia 1937 345 00:40:54,574 --> 00:40:56,459 Not fascism of course. 346 00:40:56,659 --> 00:40:59,400 Yes, at least it's not fascism. 347 00:41:03,374 --> 00:41:06,736 The car about to help the revolution 348 00:41:08,815 --> 00:41:13,373 but all today must be some hurry to have them gone. 349 00:41:19,423 --> 00:41:22,305 They'll rev the engines 350 00:41:23,343 --> 00:41:24,652 Shooting must not be heard in the street. 351 00:41:47,427 --> 00:41:52,352 he comes here every night this opera is plain 352 00:41:53,230 --> 00:41:55,138 He never miss it 353 00:42:33,216 --> 00:42:40,330 The blood-soaked Tsar who takes upon himself deeds of horror 354 00:42:40,530 --> 00:42:44,672 to make our Russia strong 355 00:44:08,130 --> 00:44:09,792 Impossible! 356 00:44:11,106 --> 00:44:12,992 such things cannot be happening 357 00:44:14,635 --> 00:44:18,625 stone crushers mashed the flesh and bone 358 00:44:23,918 --> 00:44:32,058 the bloody help flushed down the city drains purging mistake 359 00:47:26,932 --> 00:47:27,738 Well ? 360 00:47:29,248 --> 00:47:31,430 AG has been with the Dida 361 00:47:31,630 --> 00:47:36,851 I'm bound to say I never met a fair amount more candid, more honest! 362 00:47:37,827 --> 00:47:40,769 How could anyone possibly be afraid of him? 363 00:47:40,969 --> 00:47:42,695 I don't understand! 364 00:47:43,922 --> 00:47:46,092 Unless they were suffering from guilt 365 00:47:46,292 --> 00:47:47,153 Absolutely ! 366 00:47:49,216 --> 00:47:52,122 I did try to understand these people from the West. 367 00:47:53,398 --> 00:47:58,291 they seemed to crave an angry parent for others of course 368 00:48:00,432 --> 00:48:02,024 Must be their education system 369 00:48:02,611 --> 00:48:05,414 Andre you'll quit the blind! 370 00:48:52,542 --> 00:48:53,329 I end in a blaze of joy 371 00:48:56,619 --> 00:48:57,637 D major 372 00:48:58,521 --> 00:48:59,899 Key of joy 373 00:49:00,609 --> 00:49:02,609 Of light. 374 00:49:10,050 --> 00:49:11,833 The symphony must rejoice. 375 00:49:12,033 --> 00:49:14,741 Our leader says so. 376 00:49:17,492 --> 00:49:23,988 To give us a good life and gain his aproval. 377 00:49:59,092 --> 00:50:02,141 A, A flat, 378 00:50:02,341 --> 00:50:05,390 B natural 379 00:50:05,624 --> 00:50:07,600 There's a story about B natural in the older days 380 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,567 The choirs and churches could never sing it in tune. 381 00:50:10,767 --> 00:50:14,619 sometimes they needed it flatter so they made it two notes 382 00:50:14,819 --> 00:50:16,553 they called the flat one B 383 00:50:16,912 --> 00:50:22,039 and the sharp one 384 00:50:22,241 --> 00:50:24,362 C, D 385 00:50:24,562 --> 00:50:27,972 D sharp which also has another name 386 00:50:44,314 --> 00:50:45,314 So it is! 387 00:50:58,842 --> 00:51:00,991 Daddy is laughing! 388 00:51:33,089 --> 00:51:37,251 The most powerful man that has ever been 389 00:51:37,452 --> 00:51:39,484 And we do not know him! 390 00:53:04,847 --> 00:53:14,211 What if he all along if he be right 391 00:53:14,412 --> 00:53:16,566 confess all to us all? 392 00:54:47,278 --> 00:54:52,556 How does one talk with such a man ? 393 00:54:52,756 --> 00:54:56,034 What language does he use? 394 00:54:56,234 --> 00:54:58,894 They say that even with his mother... 395 00:55:28,710 --> 00:55:30,710 son 396 00:55:30,910 --> 00:55:34,674 Your bastard, yes! 397 00:55:34,975 --> 00:55:36,645 You should have been a priest! 398 00:55:45,119 --> 00:55:49,062 You wreched whore! 399 00:56:44,550 --> 00:56:46,391 Get the wrong books again. 400 00:56:47,627 --> 00:56:51,329 Don't they realize the German fascists have always been our friends? 401 00:56:52,641 --> 00:56:55,907 They have a copy of that jew, Karl Marx 402 00:56:57,029 --> 00:57:00,360 Comrade Hitler our eternal ally 403 00:57:01,838 --> 00:57:03,557 They could weep Weep! 404 00:57:04,256 --> 00:57:07,336 Under the blanket No tears in paradise. 405 00:57:08,128 --> 00:57:12,396 Did I tell you that Eisenstein 406 00:57:12,596 --> 00:57:17,743 he's staging well connect up the tiles and you in the cast cover learn turns 407 00:57:18,537 --> 00:57:23,697 Survival Probably after him to survive 408 00:57:32,305 --> 00:57:34,313 No scream 409 00:57:38,073 --> 00:57:39,234 No protest 410 00:57:40,442 --> 00:57:41,821 they come for as we go 411 00:57:44,138 --> 00:57:45,040 we sheeps of Russia 412 00:57:47,090 --> 00:57:49,176 Why does he not send for me? 413 00:57:50,764 --> 00:57:53,032 He must , He will 414 00:57:53,232 --> 00:57:56,434 How can I turn not come? 415 00:58:30,545 --> 00:58:34,420 In nature life is cheap 416 00:58:36,334 --> 00:58:40,064 To save the earth he knows and only he 417 00:58:41,538 --> 00:58:43,734 what must be done. 418 00:58:45,637 --> 00:58:48,910 My sense of my own work as a living person is 419 00:58:49,110 --> 00:58:52,957 is that a myth ? 420 00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:56,523 Must be ready? 421 00:58:56,723 --> 00:59:00,672 Pen, paper, toothbrush 422 00:59:00,872 --> 00:59:05,338 by the door must be ready 423 00:59:15,718 --> 00:59:17,928 And when they start on me 424 00:59:19,463 --> 00:59:20,658 what is it really like? 425 00:59:21,413 --> 00:59:26,589 then well, ice cream ? Yes yes! 426 00:59:27,361 --> 00:59:29,787 To scream is to protest 427 00:59:30,305 --> 00:59:33,457 Dignity is civility. 428 00:59:34,852 --> 00:59:39,239 Damn you damn you who make us think about something 429 01:00:13,168 --> 01:00:13,946 Dad? 430 01:00:14,146 --> 01:00:16,983 Where did the music come from? 431 01:00:17,750 --> 01:00:19,060 My head 432 01:00:24,073 --> 01:00:29,758 My head is a big round world Little demons in it open little doors 433 01:00:30,877 --> 01:00:31,898 and poke their faces out 434 01:00:36,450 --> 01:00:38,357 There's a particularly naughty little demon 435 01:00:43,961 --> 01:00:45,078 Nobody takes any notice 436 01:00:45,564 --> 01:00:49,329 We think he's friendly but he gets bigger. 437 01:00:54,189 --> 01:00:57,849 Bigger and bigger. 438 01:00:59,886 --> 01:01:01,119 Before you know 439 01:01:02,793 --> 01:01:08,277 is trampling everybody down 440 01:01:08,697 --> 01:01:10,697 Is that the story? 441 01:01:10,897 --> 01:01:13,897 That is the story! How is it called? 442 01:01:13,997 --> 01:01:15,108 Simphony number seven 443 01:01:17,396 --> 01:01:18,940 But its real name 444 01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:22,330 No name 445 01:01:23,465 --> 01:01:25,509 Did someone kill him in the end? 446 01:01:27,709 --> 01:01:29,205 Perhaps 447 01:01:45,956 --> 01:01:48,387 Have you been in the West? 448 01:01:48,587 --> 01:01:50,088 They do strange things in the West 449 01:01:58,202 --> 01:02:01,717 ..Stover's today Piano finals 450 01:02:03,325 --> 01:02:04,784 Lizst sonata 451 01:02:05,015 --> 01:02:09,643 .. 452 01:02:11,935 --> 01:02:13,804 Opus 111. I'll never get away in time. 453 01:02:14,004 --> 01:02:14,880 Meeting ? 454 01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:16,930 You must be joking 455 01:02:17,130 --> 01:02:17,949 .. 456 01:02:18,149 --> 01:02:20,476 You have to get these little creature to play faster 457 01:04:12,616 --> 01:04:14,696 HITLER HAS BROKEN TREATY WAR 458 01:04:53,028 --> 01:04:54,048 Out! 459 01:05:30,837 --> 01:05:31,856 Damn! 460 01:06:01,007 --> 01:06:02,097 Where are going ? 461 01:06:02,297 --> 01:06:03,388 To the cellars . 462 01:06:04,721 --> 01:06:06,435 .. 463 01:06:20,327 --> 01:06:22,069 Copy of "my Kampf" came true 464 01:06:30,502 --> 01:06:32,552 all helmsman of genius 465 01:06:34,387 --> 01:06:36,774 how can he? Hitler is my friend 466 01:06:38,214 --> 01:06:40,933 he is not brother who signed an agreement 467 01:06:41,911 --> 01:06:43,132 to share Europe 468 01:07:00,698 --> 01:07:04,205 why has Leningrad no anti-air craft rockets? 469 01:07:06,096 --> 01:07:07,909 Who has left Leningrad naked to the air ? 470 01:07:08,112 --> 01:07:11,404 Who is to blame? 471 01:07:47,978 --> 01:07:50,470 We shall be our fraternal Ally now 472 01:07:51,861 --> 01:07:55,063 Who will help us conquer Europe now? 473 01:08:36,416 --> 01:08:38,842 A volunteer They ought to refuse me 474 01:08:40,769 --> 01:08:41,799 Your ... 475 01:08:45,049 --> 01:08:47,432 People are eating rats to stay alive 476 01:08:47,961 --> 01:08:50,366 ... higher duty 477 01:08:51,525 --> 01:08:54,356 fiddling we have a conservatory roof is 478 01:08:54,796 --> 01:08:56,877 on high requires you on a broader front 479 01:08:57,486 --> 01:09:01,350 Behalf of minds of our fraternal allies especially America 480 01:09:01,550 --> 01:09:05,428 You're living safe to finish that new symphony 481 01:09:05,839 --> 01:09:07,572 You're exterminating Giants The enemies of life 482 01:09:07,951 --> 01:09:10,823 yeah well now it's enemy of Leningrad 483 01:09:11,023 --> 01:09:13,396 and .. my own kid 484 01:09:15,906 --> 01:09:18,900 yes look at him! The top musician in the city 485 01:09:19,458 --> 01:09:23,255 and there one German shell would make ... 486 01:09:23,455 --> 01:09:24,991 that was city commander 487 01:09:25,191 --> 01:09:26,802 Makes good news 488 01:09:27,002 --> 01:09:28,544 oh, true! That helps 489 01:09:29,413 --> 01:09:33,302 Who's directing it? Eisenstein 490 01:09:33,502 --> 01:09:36,706 copious map you do anything to maybe look ridiculous 491 01:09:36,906 --> 01:09:39,837 .. you glorifying Ivan the terrible now 492 01:09:41,882 --> 01:09:45,968 call it doesn't show their little first work 493 01:09:56,339 --> 01:10:02,725 Out from the hell of Leningrad before the belching miles of nazi dance 494 01:10:06,044 --> 01:10:11,539 Across the frozen wastes born .. 495 01:10:12,076 --> 01:10:16,696 south across the peaks of Georgia a secret weapon comes 496 01:10:16,896 --> 01:10:18,214 mightier than steel 497 01:10:18,414 --> 01:10:21,535 Maharaj rendezvous in the desert Sutherland 498 01:10:22,692 --> 01:10:23,766 by motorcycle 499 01:10:27,197 --> 01:10:28,310 truck, Cairo 500 01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:32,100 Gibraltar 501 01:10:34,558 --> 01:10:41,770 What is this secret? Hands, designs, a formula? 502 01:10:42,662 --> 01:10:45,211 Brainchild of some russian Einstein 503 01:10:46,153 --> 01:10:47,363 None of these ! 504 01:10:48,438 --> 01:10:51,411 These experts are the generalissimo-s of the symphony 505 01:10:52,342 --> 01:10:54,292 Maestro Toscanini and... 506 01:10:55,364 --> 01:10:58,703 A weapon forged in the inferno of conflict 507 01:10:58,903 --> 01:11:02,153 with the Soviet ancestral foe the Hun. 508 01:11:02,353 --> 01:11:05,559 There's a new new symfonic masterwork born with a "A' 509 01:11:05,893 --> 01:11:10,816 The Leningrad symphony with its graphic depiction of a Nazi hordes 510 01:11:11,570 --> 01:11:14,196 comes music from the flames 511 01:11:15,378 --> 01:11:18,146 To set America aflame in the cause of Liberty 512 01:11:19,851 --> 01:11:25,760 Our russian Einstein is a Dervis private little man but a hero 513 01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,098 Seen here in a rare footage. 514 01:11:28,298 --> 01:11:31,287 shoulder to shoulder with the citizens of Leningrad 515 01:11:31,487 --> 01:11:34,545 fighting to save their ancient city from the flames. 516 01:12:19,723 --> 01:12:21,586 Oh Leningrad! 517 01:12:24,704 --> 01:12:26,561 Leningrad! 518 01:12:29,724 --> 01:12:33,182 900 days. 519 01:12:34,072 --> 01:12:37,898 the Siege 900 days 520 01:12:38,098 --> 01:12:47,704 we ate human flesh to survive 521 01:12:49,911 --> 01:12:52,278 to survive... 522 01:13:02,178 --> 01:13:05,767 we ate the Jews first because they did not fight 523 01:13:07,684 --> 01:13:11,108 War is easy we were told 524 01:13:42,128 --> 01:13:50,779 and when we won all this at the mercy of our Savior again 525 01:13:53,012 --> 01:13:55,915 Oh Leningrad, my Leningrad 526 01:13:56,115 --> 01:13:58,183 Nothing changes. 527 01:13:58,384 --> 01:14:01,402 Only the tyrants learn from history. 528 01:14:02,294 --> 01:14:06,625 All who fight for us now in the West 529 01:14:06,825 --> 01:14:08,239 and live to come home true heroes of our land 530 01:14:10,129 --> 01:14:17,468 but what they have learned outside shall vanish in mass graves. 531 01:14:18,654 --> 01:14:20,150 Our tzar will see to that. 532 01:14:22,695 --> 01:14:27,172 And our deeper war continue. 533 01:14:30,420 --> 01:14:34,943 Symphonies, tombstones of the siege 534 01:14:36,908 --> 01:14:39,338 He'll be wanting an eighth Symphony next 535 01:14:39,538 --> 01:14:40,328 then a ninth. 536 01:14:42,530 --> 01:14:46,278 A monumental Beethoven ode to... 537 01:14:46,340 --> 01:14:48,788 EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE OF SOVIET MUSICIANS MOSCOW-JANUARY 1948 538 01:15:03,697 --> 01:15:06,583 So commander Zdanov is a music critic now? 539 01:15:10,540 --> 01:15:13,196 I heard comrade Prokofief will stand up 540 01:15:31,502 --> 01:15:33,015 Comrade musicians 541 01:15:34,790 --> 01:15:37,087 permit me a few opening remarks 542 01:15:38,085 --> 01:15:42,053 on the role of the creative artist in the society 543 01:15:44,725 --> 01:15:49,577 in the West the artist is a mere ornament 544 01:15:50,767 --> 01:15:52,847 victim to market forces. 545 01:15:53,992 --> 01:15:56,447 He can be made or broken 546 01:15:57,611 --> 01:16:00,524 by the votes of a narrow intellectual elite 547 01:16:01,947 --> 01:16:06,679 Whether he live or starve depends on how fashionable he is 548 01:16:07,856 --> 01:16:12,206 THis so-called freedom is a struggle to survive 549 01:16:14,986 --> 01:16:15,491 We.. 550 01:16:17,903 --> 01:16:19,906 we value our artists. 551 01:16:21,088 --> 01:16:28,081 We recognize the gifts he brings 552 01:16:28,281 --> 01:16:34,031 as any science, any technology, poetry, art, music 553 01:16:34,231 --> 01:16:37,400 are vital to our humanity. 554 01:16:39,872 --> 01:16:48,943 Our institutions therefore accord the artists proper status in our society 555 01:16:49,790 --> 01:16:52,411 He enjoys his rightful place 556 01:16:54,765 --> 01:17:00,264 but with that status comes responsibility. 557 01:17:03,399 --> 01:17:08,295 We are here today to examine that responsibility. 558 01:17:11,932 --> 01:17:16,831 In the West, yes, the artist is free to dabble in abstractions 559 01:17:17,556 --> 01:17:19,125 in sentimental nihilism 560 01:17:19,793 --> 01:17:22,510 in meaningless.. itself 561 01:17:22,972 --> 01:17:29,239 We, the people demand that you touch us, that you reach into us 562 01:17:30,153 --> 01:17:34,445 that your creations be of meaning to us 563 01:17:35,708 --> 01:17:40,012 In a word that you speak! 564 01:17:41,649 --> 01:17:48,303 Have we, in our Soviet music the beginnings of a failure? 565 01:17:49,693 --> 01:17:51,532 Trouble with Zdanov, right? 566 01:17:53,833 --> 01:17:56,072 Invidious on some names and I would not! 567 01:17:56,232 --> 01:17:58,307 Khatchaturyan looks unhappy 568 01:17:59,265 --> 01:18:03,674 But for certain reasons or disappointments in the field of opera 569 01:18:05,325 --> 01:18:09,119 and symphony and opera of Comrade Buratelli 570 01:18:10,153 --> 01:18:13,692 certain choral and orchestral pieces 571 01:18:14,335 --> 01:18:15,715 from comrade Prokofiev 572 01:18:16,629 --> 01:18:21,011 Gargolovsky the shadows at every platform 573 01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:24,055 from Shostakovich 574 01:18:26,039 --> 01:18:27,091 But it may argue? 575 01:18:27,291 --> 01:18:33,294 Why should I, a Prokofiev respect the opinions of a tractor driver from Tashkent? 576 01:18:34,987 --> 01:18:39,869 Why should a smelter from Smolensk dictates my harmonies to me? 577 01:18:40,504 --> 01:18:41,725 A Shostakovich ? 578 01:18:44,161 --> 01:18:46,072 Name two or three symphonic stars 579 01:18:46,638 --> 01:18:50,027 whom the West has taken to its ruting odd 580 01:18:50,227 --> 01:18:54,284 while even here at home thanks to the influence 581 01:18:54,484 --> 01:18:58,894 of a Leningrad clique of musicologist so-called 582 01:18:59,689 --> 01:19:02,964 others among us who labor to uphold more tuneful values 583 01:19:03,164 --> 01:19:05,710 are treated with contempt. 584 01:19:06,745 --> 01:19:08,740 Their works not performed 585 01:19:09,086 --> 01:19:11,508 their names not even heard . 586 01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:20,722 My comrades, I am no musician well as I heard it said 587 01:19:23,051 --> 01:19:25,138 Andrey Aleksandrovich no musician 588 01:19:25,455 --> 01:19:30,295 but he knows 600 folk songs 589 01:19:30,495 --> 01:19:32,267 what a thing to say 590 01:19:32,586 --> 01:19:33,898 I only know 300! 591 01:19:39,809 --> 01:19:40,720 Letters ! 592 01:19:41,313 --> 01:19:43,773 These are letters from workers! 593 01:19:45,007 --> 01:19:47,497 From factories and collectives everywhere! 594 01:19:47,966 --> 01:19:52,517 These can hear when a composer violates the natural laws! 595 01:19:53,059 --> 01:19:56,160 these can tell gratuitous dissonance, 596 01:19:57,015 --> 01:20:00,777 ugly clapping, noises that creek and crush 597 01:20:01,579 --> 01:20:03,334 for the symptoms that they are: 598 01:20:03,776 --> 01:20:06,906 of a concept of life too negative 599 01:20:08,480 --> 01:20:14,794 As for example in some recent work from comrade Shostakovich 600 01:20:14,994 --> 01:20:21,782 who appears to have lost again the number nine 601 01:20:23,422 --> 01:20:29,929 that mighty consumating number with all its resonance of the great Beethoven 602 01:20:31,590 --> 01:20:38,847 at a time of epic liberation by our Savior Generalissimo Stalin 603 01:20:39,848 --> 01:20:41,682 sole architect of our victory 604 01:20:42,660 --> 01:20:46,540 What does our last comrades deliver ? 605 01:20:52,871 --> 01:20:54,420 Carnival squeaks! 606 01:20:54,620 --> 01:20:56,533 Hooligan squawkings! 607 01:20:57,089 --> 01:21:00,792 A satanic satire perhaps to include in its main theme 608 01:21:00,847 --> 01:21:04,391 a yankee sergeant whistling 609 01:21:05,391 --> 01:21:08,076 Well, what can our comrade be telling us? 610 01:21:08,208 --> 01:21:14,093 I , Sostakovich personally deflate the myth of number 9 611 01:21:15,110 --> 01:21:20,548 I Dmitri Dmitrievich private individual 612 01:21:21,445 --> 01:21:24,665 I... I have some personal whim 613 01:21:25,270 --> 01:21:26,890 I will assert 614 01:22:19,998 --> 01:22:20,760 Comrades 615 01:22:26,208 --> 01:22:29,040 Comrades Zhdanov has done well 616 01:22:35,130 --> 01:22:36,129 sounded may I say a note of 617 01:22:36,140 --> 01:22:37,873 warning 618 01:22:38,073 --> 01:22:49,734 All my career rather since and earlier most salutary warning 619 01:22:51,980 --> 01:22:54,925 I have sought my meaning 620 01:22:57,018 --> 01:22:59,012 I have sought to speak to the living 621 01:23:01,061 --> 01:23:02,579 do I begin to fail ? 622 01:23:05,173 --> 01:23:07,726 do I fall too much beneath my own private shadow 623 01:23:08,154 --> 01:23:17,172 and fail to speak openly and plainly to the living and with objectivity? 624 01:23:18,709 --> 01:23:19,974 then yes I failed 625 01:23:22,569 --> 01:23:25,643 I failed by the standards of the highest art which are the only standards 626 01:23:27,204 --> 01:23:29,180 and I am grateful to you all 627 01:23:30,194 --> 01:23:34,472 that you rebuke me, yes! To be sure! 628 01:23:38,823 --> 01:23:43,005 It is also right and proper. 629 01:23:43,082 --> 01:23:48,070 at the Conservatoire that my son also denounces me 630 01:23:52,914 --> 01:23:57,181 to be sure to reach the people 631 01:23:58,448 --> 01:24:00,399 That is the question 632 01:24:01,991 --> 01:24:04,334 but how is it done? 633 01:24:08,123 --> 01:24:10,327 I expect to receive instruction from you 634 01:24:12,419 --> 01:24:14,610 I will study it with deep interest 635 01:25:44,488 --> 01:25:48,506 What are they afraid I'll do 636 01:25:49,839 --> 01:25:52,586 A harmony too problematic for the people 637 01:29:52,745 --> 01:29:55,738 We... we value our artist. 638 01:29:56,660 --> 01:29:59,833 We recognize the gift he brings. 639 01:30:01,473 --> 01:30:08,907 As any science any technology, poetry, music are vital to our humanity 640 01:30:13,285 --> 01:30:18,209 our institutions therefore accord the artist proper status in our society 641 01:30:19,684 --> 01:30:22,218 he enjoys his rightful place 642 01:30:24,744 --> 01:30:26,744 Promise them 643 01:30:29,375 --> 01:30:35,722 yes, promise them a project , 644 01:30:35,922 --> 01:30:37,454 massive 645 01:30:38,918 --> 01:30:41,164 Three symphonies 646 01:30:41,364 --> 01:30:43,030 A revolutionary trilogy 647 01:30:45,407 --> 01:30:46,868 The people 648 01:30:48,113 --> 01:30:49,608 Lenin 649 01:30:51,513 --> 01:30:53,239 Stalin 650 01:30:58,020 --> 01:30:59,246 Defect? 651 01:31:00,252 --> 01:31:02,033 Exile is the worst death. 652 01:31:02,847 --> 01:31:04,042 Pushkin, he too. 653 01:31:04,242 --> 01:31:07,800 "With my talents and my luck" he said 654 01:31:08,495 --> 01:31:13,890 "to be born in Russia, stupid" 655 01:31:16,279 --> 01:31:17,599 No one mentioned Chekhov. 656 01:31:20,287 --> 01:31:26,918 The true craftsman. "I put my hand" he said "to anything" 657 01:31:30,146 --> 01:31:32,970 "except denounciations" 658 01:31:46,971 --> 01:31:49,971 I wish mama didn't have to work so far away 659 01:31:57,991 --> 01:32:00,636 She does. 660 01:32:01,257 --> 01:32:04,928 A friend requires it. 661 01:32:06,504 --> 01:32:07,648 Her lover. 662 01:32:26,910 --> 01:32:28,488 keep them off my back a year or so 663 01:32:29,650 --> 01:32:34,483 By time I have my contract with the living 664 01:32:35,626 --> 01:32:39,756 I must live to honor that 665 01:32:41,710 --> 01:32:43,710 What are you? 666 01:32:45,478 --> 01:32:47,550 By what we billions obey? 667 01:32:49,097 --> 01:32:50,021 hatred of ourselves 668 01:32:51,133 --> 01:32:52,748 guilt of the Living guilty that we sang 669 01:32:56,858 --> 01:33:04,229 Gift has separated me gift has elevated me so I punish my gift to bring myself down 670 01:33:06,439 --> 01:33:07,469 equal 671 01:33:10,055 --> 01:33:14,615 Strength through joy. 672 01:33:19,533 --> 01:33:21,267 daddy , daddy isThomas darling 673 01:33:24,657 --> 01:33:26,657 He's just coming 674 01:33:53,114 --> 01:33:53,816 yes? 675 01:33:54,785 --> 01:33:55,804 America 676 01:33:57,729 --> 01:33:59,476 I'm sorry? New York 677 01:34:00,478 --> 01:34:02,350 Comrade Shostakovich 678 01:34:02,550 --> 01:34:03,018 Yes 679 01:34:04,036 --> 01:34:07,304 The cultural and scientific Congress on world peace 680 01:34:09,740 --> 01:34:12,365 Next month we must encourage peace-loving peoples 681 01:34:12,920 --> 01:34:15,152 Of course. 682 01:34:16,315 --> 01:34:19,311 the Pentagon's new North Atlantic Treaty 683 01:34:19,948 --> 01:34:22,791 you understand is causing concern 684 01:34:24,367 --> 01:34:26,965 you will be the star of our Soviet delegation 685 01:34:30,402 --> 01:34:36,045 current general secretary I'm amazed that you regard me as worthy 686 01:34:38,026 --> 01:34:39,079 You are a 687 01:34:39,279 --> 01:34:41,677 brightest and most talented no false modesty 688 01:34:44,481 --> 01:34:46,923 all the same I ... 689 01:34:48,997 --> 01:34:58,673 It will... America I... People will ask me how work 690 01:34:58,873 --> 01:35:03,296 of Prokofiev and Khachaturian and myself... 691 01:35:03,496 --> 01:35:07,836 The people will ask me 692 01:35:08,036 --> 01:35:11,237 how can I just represent the country where my works are bound 693 01:35:12,628 --> 01:35:17,964 In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics no work is bad 694 01:35:19,024 --> 01:35:23,057 and there are contexts in which performance it is unwise 695 01:35:24,298 --> 01:35:27,781 where that concerns you we should perhaps look into that 696 01:35:28,339 --> 01:35:32,058 I'm sick and tired... 697 01:35:32,239 --> 01:35:33,669 yes I hear you dislike fly 698 01:35:34,614 --> 01:35:35,514 We'll send you a doctor. 699 01:35:36,881 --> 01:35:38,097 Good night 700 01:36:14,063 --> 01:36:15,287 so much 701 01:36:31,463 --> 01:36:35,764 you are a brightest and most talented no false modesty 702 01:36:37,437 --> 01:36:42,908 No work is bad in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 703 01:36:44,103 --> 01:36:48,302 there are contexts in which performance is unwise 704 01:37:29,262 --> 01:37:31,262 later when you say about the 705 01:37:31,462 --> 01:37:33,868 No political questions we are artists 706 01:37:38,853 --> 01:37:40,208 but are we really individuals 707 01:37:47,319 --> 01:37:48,396 Your program 708 01:37:48,438 --> 01:37:52,395 This evening 7:45 grand banquet of welcome Waldorf Astoria Hotel 709 01:37:53,543 --> 01:37:55,342 Friday 10:30 a.m. press conference 710 01:37:56,352 --> 01:37:58,953 11:45 visit to the ambassador's residence 711 01:38:21,037 --> 01:38:25,792 ...Stalin butcher 712 01:38:57,380 --> 01:39:00,780 Sunday Madison Square Gardens 8 p.m. 713 01:39:01,700 --> 01:39:03,486 Peace rally 714 01:39:03,686 --> 01:39:06,986 You will play a piano version of the schedule from your Symphony number 5 715 01:39:10,943 --> 01:39:12,263 When do we leave for New Jersey ? 716 01:39:12,843 --> 01:39:14,989 New York is horrible, is everything Gorky says 717 01:39:15,337 --> 01:39:16,688 City of the yellow death 718 01:39:17,513 --> 01:39:19,350 New Jersey is canceled 719 01:39:21,573 --> 01:39:26,218 Yale is also canceled from the university authorities 720 01:39:26,599 --> 01:39:29,224 Everything for me would serve no educational purpose 721 01:39:31,699 --> 01:39:33,168 Stravinsky 722 01:39:33,368 --> 01:39:36,454 your fellow composer 723 01:39:39,154 --> 01:39:40,514 He's behind all this 724 01:39:45,239 --> 01:39:48,028 he has all the American Universities sewn up 725 01:39:51,419 --> 01:39:52,960 bitches 726 01:39:53,346 --> 01:39:54,883 academics 727 01:39:57,680 --> 01:39:59,789 Stravinsky is wrong. 728 01:40:00,219 --> 01:40:02,920 He refuses to sign a telegram ... us 729 01:40:09,854 --> 01:40:14,097 Mc Witch, your client thank you 730 01:40:14,297 --> 01:40:17,151 All I wish from the comrade Sostakovich is an answer 731 01:40:18,416 --> 01:40:24,062 does he or does he not accept the criticism voiced against him by the party 732 01:40:24,824 --> 01:40:26,598 at last year's special comments 733 01:40:27,676 --> 01:40:29,180 I repeat 734 01:40:33,298 --> 01:40:35,206 the criticism of the party 735 01:40:35,614 --> 01:40:38,768 was most accurate 736 01:40:38,968 --> 01:40:41,380 Was it just? 737 01:40:42,418 --> 01:40:46,719 I endeavoured to respect it in practice 738 01:40:47,670 --> 01:40:51,914 and what in practice does that mean my music must answer that 739 01:40:52,150 --> 01:40:53,707 What music you have written since? 740 01:40:54,422 --> 01:40:56,572 A film score for the younger 741 01:40:56,806 --> 01:40:59,842 "A Cantata on a forestation " 742 01:41:00,197 --> 01:41:02,011 Are you saying that these are your real music now? 743 01:41:02,963 --> 01:41:05,018 Did you repudiate those symphonies you wrote before? 744 01:41:07,281 --> 01:41:08,948 But the 5th? 745 01:41:09,441 --> 01:41:11,059 I want to claim that his ... 746 01:41:11,259 --> 01:41:13,918 My earlier music has been... You repudiate it? 747 01:41:14,392 --> 01:41:15,797 Why are you so interested in me? 748 01:41:16,804 --> 01:41:20,085 I'm one among so many and I'm not the only soviet composer 749 01:41:20,285 --> 01:41:22,071 ... that'll you know that 750 01:41:25,844 --> 01:41:29,135 Comrade Shostakovich we still await your answer! 751 01:41:30,203 --> 01:41:32,506 The 8th symphony for instance 752 01:41:32,706 --> 01:41:34,072 denounced in Moscow as the work of a frightened man. 753 01:41:34,637 --> 01:41:35,262 Are you frightened? 754 01:41:35,391 --> 01:41:37,785 My music is not to be discussed in personal terms 755 01:41:38,238 --> 01:41:40,515 Oh God, Shostakovich! 756 01:41:40,743 --> 01:41:42,255 Yours is very personal 757 01:41:42,497 --> 01:41:46,355 My personality is irrelevant 758 01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:50,649 Music must transcend mere personality 759 01:41:51,579 --> 01:41:54,649 That is the struggle of every true artist 760 01:41:55,509 --> 01:41:58,552 Well' let's discuss the music of others, Prokofiev and Khachaturian 761 01:41:58,752 --> 01:42:00,679 also criticize our comrades 762 01:42:01,509 --> 01:42:04,219 Surely you have an attitude to error. 763 01:42:04,958 --> 01:42:07,997 Error is error to be repudiated and purged 764 01:42:09,489 --> 01:42:12,749 Is the error of a comrade colleague such as Khachaturian 765 01:42:13,319 --> 01:42:18,709 No concern to you Dimitri Dimitrievici? 766 01:42:19,982 --> 01:42:21,621 Answer, please! 767 01:42:26,922 --> 01:42:27,566 It says here 768 01:42:30,834 --> 01:42:33,283 Mister Shostakovici 769 01:42:33,484 --> 01:42:36,581 do you or do you not denounce as error 770 01:42:38,336 --> 01:42:41,220 the work of your fellow musician Stravinsky? 771 01:42:41,942 --> 01:42:44,534 Where we have relapsed into formalism we can't .. 772 01:42:44,877 --> 01:42:47,551 What is formalism ? 773 01:42:48,134 --> 01:42:49,563 Form for form's sake. 774 01:42:50,071 --> 01:42:52,694 Serve it from experience. You asked about other composers. 775 01:42:53,782 --> 01:42:57,846 Stravinsky all I can say is I agree 776 01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:09,854 He has betrayed his land, he has severed himself from his own people 777 01:43:10,825 --> 01:43:14,941 Result his music is morally barren intellectual 778 01:43:15,259 --> 01:43:17,973 at least the colleagues you mentioned seek to serve people. 779 01:43:18,316 --> 01:43:20,632 Prokofiev Hachaturian 780 01:43:21,064 --> 01:43:24,969 They as I must heed the directive of the Central Committee 781 01:43:25,418 --> 01:43:28,445 if we are not to lapse into form for forms sake 782 01:43:29,336 --> 01:43:31,611 I denounce the error! 783 01:43:54,974 --> 01:43:59,902 I should have said no at the beginning like Mandelstam 784 01:45:19,005 --> 01:45:20,295 We are chickens 785 01:45:21,334 --> 01:45:24,842 we see only one grain at a time peck peck 786 01:45:25,146 --> 01:45:27,023 to the farmer grabs us chopped 787 01:46:01,198 --> 01:46:03,198 Get up, Dimitri! 788 01:46:04,237 --> 01:46:06,190 Could it be me in America 789 01:46:09,632 --> 01:46:11,501 now price of among 790 01:46:11,701 --> 01:46:14,289 Prokofiev doesn't stand a chance 791 01:46:15,223 --> 01:46:19,022 .. international a 792 01:46:19,631 --> 01:46:24,655 perfectly good answer, not russian of course. 793 01:46:24,855 --> 01:46:31,028 as for instance elephants these days are russian 794 01:46:31,228 --> 01:46:36,901 Karl Marx is russian, Isaac Newton is russian 795 01:46:38,761 --> 01:46:41,323 The moon is Russian. 796 01:46:45,410 --> 01:46:47,233 as our minion radio would say 797 01:46:48,217 --> 01:46:51,151 first prize: dinner with Stalin 798 01:46:51,351 --> 01:46:54,481 second prize: a week with Stalin. 799 01:46:58,621 --> 01:46:59,938 Old joke. 800 01:47:09,477 --> 01:47:10,491 Candidates on stage! 801 01:47:11,790 --> 01:47:13,687 We are about to declare. 802 01:47:23,854 --> 01:47:27,328 I am awake like Dostoyevsky on his way to execution. 803 01:47:29,978 --> 01:47:31,272 Vivid as never before. 804 01:47:32,908 --> 01:47:35,872 I'm Shostakovich on my way to meet Stalin 805 01:47:36,835 --> 01:47:39,382 All my life has been a dream for this moment 806 01:47:40,070 --> 01:47:42,484 Stop twitching Remember the joke 807 01:47:43,615 --> 01:47:44,841 Who is Nicolas the first ? 808 01:47:44,867 --> 01:47:46,867 Tzar in the time of Pushkin 809 01:47:48,114 --> 01:47:51,181 have I everything to lose and that is lost. 810 01:47:51,381 --> 01:47:53,852 Courage comes easy now 811 01:47:55,627 --> 01:47:57,585 A black monk's name is death 812 01:47:59,266 --> 01:48:01,266 I must keep my trousers clean 813 01:48:07,387 --> 01:48:09,387 Comrade, well done 814 01:48:27,960 --> 01:48:28,776 Well done! 815 01:48:37,646 --> 01:48:39,410 It had to be your tune at one 816 01:48:41,366 --> 01:48:42,968 I like a tune 817 01:48:46,644 --> 01:48:48,585 rolls to the occasion 818 01:48:48,817 --> 01:48:49,944 You know that? 819 01:48:52,640 --> 01:48:55,033 You are the brightest and the most talented 820 01:48:57,809 --> 01:48:58,983 You know that ? 821 01:48:59,449 --> 01:49:03,183 I am honored comrade general secretary that you regard me so 822 01:49:07,098 --> 01:49:12,022 Your friend Khachaturian spins a good melody 823 01:49:13,227 --> 01:49:15,061 Is not russian, of course. 824 01:49:20,286 --> 01:49:22,652 Comrade, sing me tight 825 01:49:23,932 --> 01:49:25,656 spoiled is calling in our view 826 01:49:26,774 --> 01:49:29,648 you should D flat clarinet 827 01:49:29,848 --> 01:49:31,837 sardonic thunder 828 01:49:32,861 --> 01:49:34,165 sarcastic 829 01:49:35,104 --> 01:49:36,254 we don't like that 830 01:49:45,601 --> 01:49:50,072 Let it aside comrade Shostakovich 831 01:49:53,128 --> 01:49:57,225 Your ninth symphony 832 01:49:59,204 --> 01:50:02,001 the number nine 833 01:50:11,694 --> 01:50:12,442 perhaps.. 834 01:50:12,642 --> 01:50:16,059 I should retitle it Sinfonietta 835 01:50:18,163 --> 01:50:23,244 Reserve the number nine for my next 836 01:50:25,796 --> 01:50:28,528 An ode to joy! 837 01:50:31,326 --> 01:50:34,598 I shall feel equal, Comrade Stalin 838 01:50:37,098 --> 01:50:38,326 I assure you. 839 01:50:40,782 --> 01:50:44,124 I enjoy my conversations with creative men. 840 01:50:46,373 --> 01:50:47,842 Where do they come,from I wonder 841 01:50:49,911 --> 01:50:51,669 wills noises in their head 842 01:51:03,732 --> 01:51:05,934 On stage comrades 843 01:51:06,299 --> 01:51:11,822 Let's see noble anthem Shostakovich has composed 844 01:51:17,619 --> 01:51:20,151 Will you, on my right ? 845 01:51:21,968 --> 01:51:25,574 If comrade Shostakovich will allow me to conduct! 846 01:51:40,851 --> 01:51:42,722 Leningrad naked to bombard from the sky 847 01:51:45,562 --> 01:51:49,183 When that happens thanks Stalin 848 01:51:52,912 --> 01:51:54,108 Remember me. 849 01:52:04,292 --> 01:52:10,062 .. to that studio 850 01:52:10,536 --> 01:52:12,787 and that crazy Christian woman 851 01:52:16,619 --> 01:52:18,252 .. recording he'll ask him for 852 01:52:19,028 --> 01:52:21,028 .. 853 01:53:05,904 --> 01:53:09,322 Find me a conductor,,! 854 01:53:14,525 --> 01:53:16,525 Clean that floor ! 855 01:53:28,796 --> 01:53:30,921 Today we condemn and murder others 856 01:53:33,830 --> 01:53:36,757 Tomorrow we ourselves are condemned and murdered 857 01:53:39,526 --> 01:53:40,923 To where? 858 01:53:49,162 --> 01:53:50,450 the Communist party's policy includes... 859 01:53:51,614 --> 01:53:54,290 ... 860 01:53:56,334 --> 01:53:58,464 We shall handsome 861 01:54:05,391 --> 01:54:06,788 To reach the people, that is the question 862 01:54:08,210 --> 01:54:09,783 and how is it done 863 01:54:46,597 --> 01:54:48,930 shall handsome 864 01:55:43,746 --> 01:55:46,708 He killed the giant in the end? Perhaps 865 01:56:06,658 --> 01:56:12,311 What if he all along if he be right? 866 01:56:13,573 --> 01:56:15,243 confess to us all 867 01:56:57,081 --> 01:56:58,306 On the night of the 1st and 2nd of March 868 01:57:00,076 --> 01:57:01,716 music the first solid incurred a hemorrhage of the brain 869 01:57:02,388 --> 01:57:06,000 the left hemisphere to high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis 870 01:57:14,938 --> 01:57:16,938 drive in the south 871 01:57:39,147 --> 01:57:42,521 the cardiovascular system namely a high blood pressure ... 872 01:57:42,832 --> 01:57:43,904 You're not dead! 873 01:57:46,231 --> 01:57:49,314 enlargement of the heart from the first days of illness the temperature rose 874 01:57:50,037 --> 01:57:52,229 and high glucose opposes began 875 01:57:53,204 --> 01:57:58,065 which could have implicated the development of the pneumonia 876 01:57:58,265 --> 01:57:59,584 On the last day of the illness the sudden deterioration of the general condition 877 01:58:00,430 --> 01:58:05,782 was attended by repeated are thought to persevere and acute cardiovascular deficency... 878 01:58:06,518 --> 01:58:07,875 urine analysis... 879 01:58:08,075 --> 01:58:09,353 Urine analysis? 880 01:58:10,121 --> 01:58:17,294 When they announced that I thought the demigod please.. 881 01:58:22,795 --> 01:58:25,111 you're lying there listening to everything we say 882 01:58:25,500 --> 01:58:26,821 Communist Party of the Soviet... 883 01:58:27,259 --> 01:58:29,231 And you will rise again 884 01:58:29,431 --> 01:58:30,545 God's hammer 885 01:58:31,657 --> 01:58:33,612 The immortal name of Stalin will be forever... 886 01:58:33,996 --> 01:58:36,516 Sheep..Their Shephard gone 887 01:58:37,986 --> 01:58:41,127 A message from the central comitee of the Comunist Party of the Soviet union 888 01:58:45,934 --> 01:58:48,151 If only we russian people had one neck 889 01:59:05,400 --> 01:59:09,540 I'm alive and you're dead! 890 01:59:11,941 --> 01:59:23,892 Our rough hammer could not create anything 891 01:59:24,661 --> 01:59:29,882 without a master to direct its blows 892 01:59:51,856 --> 01:59:53,347 I forget him for coming at the funeral 893 01:59:56,398 --> 01:59:57,878 died the same day 894 01:59:59,330 --> 02:00:01,249 jumped up with excitement and drop dead! 895 02:00:01,519 --> 02:00:05,344 for jump 896 02:00:07,283 --> 02:00:12,026 and he called himself a gambler ! 897 02:00:12,950 --> 02:00:15,240 God! The great craftsman 898 02:00:15,440 --> 02:00:17,730 Oh let the hammer fall! 899 02:04:09,997 --> 02:04:11,997 .. me 900 02:04:36,347 --> 02:04:38,347 Father! 901 02:04:59,309 --> 02:05:03,912 you Westerners think we in Russia talk politics all the time. 902 02:05:05,347 --> 02:05:07,303 there are no politics in Russia 903 02:05:08,243 --> 02:05:14,236 But surely the dialectics of harmony symphonic revolutionary in context of struggle 904 02:05:15,288 --> 02:05:17,107 how can you Russians not discuss such things? 905 02:05:17,369 --> 02:05:18,293 We manage. 906 02:05:19,392 --> 02:05:20,465 We manage. 907 02:05:21,940 --> 02:05:24,957 Lots of problems fascinate musicians here 908 02:05:26,730 --> 02:05:28,203 Amma's all she put away so much booze 909 02:05:29,908 --> 02:05:32,212 Tchaikovsky's homosexuality - 910 02:05:32,451 --> 02:05:34,151 Dimitri, you're being grow 911 02:06:32,669 --> 02:06:34,530 No memorial here. 912 02:06:36,592 --> 02:06:38,657 Only the cliff. 913 02:06:42,400 --> 02:06:44,400 Here were ...chasms 914 02:06:48,332 --> 02:06:50,562 Grim forms of stone 915 02:06:56,210 --> 02:06:57,526 The brink of a ravine 916 02:07:01,986 --> 02:07:03,941 clenched fists of rock. 917 02:07:07,936 --> 02:07:09,992 The very reek of death. 918 02:07:13,751 --> 02:07:15,260 They filed along the rink 919 02:07:16,046 --> 02:07:21,612 they stood astride the grave shots ran out 920 02:07:23,457 --> 02:07:25,837 the bodies fell into the ravine 921 02:07:26,735 --> 02:07:31,880 Next, more came grain merchants 922 02:07:32,362 --> 02:07:34,916 women with lace umbrellas. 923 02:07:35,116 --> 02:07:37,773 All stood along the brink 924 02:07:39,062 --> 02:07:43,276 Shots rang out their bodies fell into the ravine 925 02:07:43,649 --> 02:07:45,125 some kicked there by boots 926 02:07:45,546 --> 02:07:47,574 next some of the children now 927 02:07:48,530 --> 02:07:50,496 Come rabbi, sing ! 928 02:07:51,376 --> 02:07:53,113 Sing for the children to dance! 929 02:07:54,718 --> 02:07:56,800 kill the EDS, save our Russia! 930 02:07:58,114 --> 02:08:00,968 Dance children,dance! 931 02:08:01,672 --> 02:08:05,144 the shots ran out, their bodies fell into the ravine 932 02:08:07,731 --> 02:08:11,144 At last a union of the Russian people! 933 02:08:12,210 --> 02:08:14,361 Next 934 02:08:17,759 --> 02:08:20,252 Fascist atrocity, of course. 935 02:08:22,903 --> 02:08:24,988 "Pogrom" however is a Russian word. 936 02:09:01,358 --> 02:09:02,668 These are the sounds of spring. 937 02:09:10,129 --> 02:09:11,399 We embrace in the darkness. 938 02:09:16,272 --> 02:09:17,972 Do I hear them breaking down the door? 939 02:09:23,330 --> 02:09:24,695 No, it's the ice breaking. 940 02:09:29,269 --> 02:09:30,389 My dear, nothing happened here. 941 02:09:34,215 --> 02:09:37,498 No history, no memorial. 942 02:09:37,506 --> 02:09:39,506 Nothing is very real of any of us. 943 02:14:23,094 --> 02:14:27,494 But with that status comes responsibility 944 02:14:30,127 --> 02:14:34,510 We are here today to exact that responsibility 945 02:15:49,479 --> 02:15:55,724 It's the noise of springtime birth 946 02:15:56,292 --> 02:15:59,147 Spring is here 947 02:16:11,330 --> 02:16:13,101 Breaking ice 948 02:16:26,578 --> 02:16:28,853 what you're already telling us 949 02:16:29,053 --> 02:16:30,722 Hi Dmitry Dimitrievici 950 02:16:32,191 --> 02:16:33,542 a private individual 951 02:16:33,639 --> 02:16:34,998 abuse the victory 952 02:16:36,599 --> 02:16:40,568 I have some principal cause 953 02:17:54,895 --> 02:17:57,699 Have you seen my husband? 954 02:18:07,842 --> 02:18:10,843 Have you seen my son? 955 02:18:50,082 --> 02:18:55,194 Once I've believed, we Russians do, we believe 956 02:18:57,044 --> 02:19:02,359 and believe simple things. 957 02:19:03,436 --> 02:19:13,324 After the revolution russian soldiers won't kill russian children anymore, we said 958 02:19:14,356 --> 02:19:17,874 and apples will be for all alike. 959 02:19:46,754 --> 02:19:53,687 Only one virtue dying enforces economy. 960 02:19:59,969 --> 02:20:09,483 One note must do the work of 10. 961 02:20:11,804 --> 02:20:14,740 I write music to make people ill. 962 02:20:15,382 --> 02:20:16,684 Did you know that? 963 02:20:17,505 --> 02:20:21,501 That rehearsal of my 14th symphony 964 02:20:21,701 --> 02:20:25,576 a cultural commissar stood up and dropped dead 965 02:20:26,686 --> 02:20:28,391 He got the message. 966 02:20:30,838 --> 02:20:33,663 you mustn't laugh, to laugh will kill me. 967 02:20:36,251 --> 02:20:37,251 Bastard! 968 02:20:38,585 --> 02:20:40,446 You hijacked my soul 969 02:20:44,646 --> 02:20:50,241 Something died from your music , when I died. 970 02:20:52,288 --> 02:20:53,220 You stopped speaking. 971 02:20:59,803 --> 02:21:01,738 All necessity, you see. 972 02:21:02,350 --> 02:21:04,820 I made a great composer of you, damn it! 973 02:21:07,640 --> 02:21:11,622 You left me a barren tree to pluck poor fruit. 974 02:21:13,542 --> 02:21:22,548 who is there anywhere in any time to come to live his life from the life you lost all 975 02:21:29,060 --> 02:21:31,766 I am the enemy you loved my friend. 976 02:21:36,045 --> 02:21:37,695 Together again I see? 977 02:21:38,978 --> 02:21:40,784 the foul and his tzar 978 02:21:48,667 --> 02:21:50,552 I made Russia strong 979 02:21:54,674 --> 02:22:01,357 I found her a medieval topper 980 02:22:04,291 --> 02:22:07,054 No one tampers with Russia now. 981 02:22:13,098 --> 02:22:16,109 Or did you do? 982 02:22:16,309 --> 02:22:23,613 Truth half some set values 983 02:22:25,479 --> 02:22:31,192 streaks and bangs thumps are howling in the head 984 02:22:31,879 --> 02:22:36,410 My music speaks reaches out to people 985 02:22:36,610 --> 02:22:39,021 where nothing else can touch, it's a warning. 986 02:22:39,287 --> 02:22:40,679 We must stop that. 987 02:22:41,724 --> 02:22:44,320 Can't hurt people living where we can't reach. 988 02:22:45,727 --> 02:22:46,832 That's my meaning! 989 02:22:50,457 --> 02:22:52,723 I destroyed what you call truthfulness 990 02:22:54,177 --> 02:22:58,299 yours being with life must die 991 02:23:02,786 --> 02:23:04,786 you... ah my friend 992 02:23:06,142 --> 02:23:09,472 it's long bleak coda into the dark 993 02:23:11,961 --> 02:23:14,568 That is your significance 994 02:23:19,168 --> 02:23:24,351 And what people really want my friend one day you'll see 995 02:23:25,750 --> 02:23:26,972 they'll ask me back 996 02:23:28,212 --> 02:23:30,175 what conduct 997 02:23:31,232 --> 02:23:39,306 their black/white just 30 grade 998 02:23:48,822 --> 02:23:52,329 Stan Dimitri you're being licked into shape. 999 02:23:55,127 --> 02:23:56,441 The great Soviet composer. 1000 02:23:58,020 --> 02:23:59,674 oh yes the man has judgments. 1001 02:24:00,441 --> 02:24:02,508 I write what I hear from within myself 1002 02:24:03,348 --> 02:24:07,284 which comes from who I am in this world in which I am or else I have no meaning. 1003 02:24:10,026 --> 02:24:11,588 This world you're in.. 1004 02:24:17,189 --> 02:24:18,845 You're in Russia 1005 02:24:24,405 --> 02:24:25,930 Come on, fool! 1006 02:25:14,803 --> 02:25:16,803 So ... 1007 02:25:19,466 --> 02:25:20,834 was that all ? 1008 02:25:22,252 --> 02:25:23,400 Soon the ravens will be here. 1009 02:25:24,318 --> 02:25:25,550 A lovely corps. 1010 02:25:26,183 --> 02:25:28,571 What did the man die of? 1011 02:25:28,771 --> 02:25:29,467 Nerves? 1012 02:25:29,974 --> 02:25:31,105 Hot? 1013 02:25:31,305 --> 02:25:36,760 Of quicklime in the blood which Stalin fed me 1014 02:25:43,650 --> 02:25:51,180 Bury me well or else like Gogol I might vanish from my grave. 1015 02:26:05,450 --> 02:26:08,031 Ask me nothing anymore. 1016 02:26:10,521 --> 02:26:12,063 Ask the music.