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They were socialist label, red banner of labor,

order of the October Revolution,

People's Artist of the USSR

Stalin prizes... 5, International Peace Prize

Gray trash, meaningless.

Look, the ravens are here

even claiming our corpses.

Oh, something they feel!

Their state composer is dead.

I am dead.

How else should I be smiling?

TESTIMONY

Those hands...

Policemen' hands.

what tortures of those eyes seen stand brest on with gongs

from your heroic exploits in unforgettable...

What year was it?

verging what wretched Baltic state

"Et tu Brute" ("Even you, Brutus?"-"Julius Cezar")

Best job forward

Girl on the left-traveler from the West

upmarket freedom fighter

Need you like a hole in the back of the neck

Citizen artist.

After what my country has done to me

Wow... what does it matter?

Only composer?

what use to the world is he?

Time to be gone, goodbye widow

daughter... son..

Goodbye friends!

Whose music is that?

Foul! That's me.

8 th Symphony. The third movement.

Yeah, noises in the head

What use to the living is that?

Shostakovich!

I'm sorry professor Glazunov.. I ran

I'm sorry

So early?

No trams.

...

...

..

What did Glazunov know about trams?

His mother wrapped him in a coat .. in every morning

See, my boy doesn't catch cold

"I must wake up earlier", I said

If there were more trams..

Do you think your father...

My father did not abuse his access to state supplies

I was not a go-between we did nothing we could be shot for.

The worry was shortening my life, I said.

I dreaded the tram stop

If at last the tram did come the people behind me always shoved me aside.

The tram went with them not me.

I was not made for fighting like that

Damn thing!

Krastinka!

"I" box. "I" box.

It begins with "K".

"I" from "Insignificant".

See you don't end like that!

Where's this? Kremlin wall?

Doubt it.

Nowhere near him, that's for sure.

... with Khrushchev

and Stanislavski and Chekhov and Tzar Joseph's wretched wife

The awkward dead.

Once there was a Tsar of Moscow: Joseph.

Joseph the terrible. Father of all the Russias.

Great gardener who dug the revolution's grave.

Shoeshine boy from the Caucasus,

lover of children Pox bids on his face and neck

little fat hands

one smaller than the other

and the boots that gave him such a kick to wear.

oh, he brooded

and in his brooding our wretched century's broke its back.

Vania, it's the music that matters, not me!

They love the score, not me!

They won't you get away with that!

Why don't start a new tradition, the composer disappears?

The public applauds the composer!

Your first victory!

Only a boy, damn it!

With this symphony.. makes him even more of a politician

To Shostakovich!

First composer of the revolution!

Thank you, Mikhail

Difficult?

Red Army Commander?

.... I'm interested in Sadler

Rubicund all right?

Crossing the Kronstadt rebellion I lost my best friend, you know

Son of one of the leaders at Kronstadt

Wasn't necessary.

Stay friends with him

He is close to the center and his Leningrad as you are

As district secretary ...

Take care, it comes "The battleship Potemkin"

..

.. and you can like symphonies like that?

Madama Lupinskaya, how irresistible you look this evening!

More than one can say for you

They do as I do ..

What did Mikhail mean?

Composer of the revolution-difficult?

Music and revolution go together?

you already orchestrate better than..

With respect, you're wrong comrade Meyerhold.

I don't orchestrate, I hear.

Yes?

Prokofiev orchestrates from a piano score.

I write for the orchestra.

I didn't like all of symphony but...

They were other pieces premiere tonight

Both quite eclipsed. Not easy for them.

Now you are wrong.

You see, they are not significant

What a night of music for my theatre

you have to be in Moscow, of course

Petersburg people !

You can't play piano in the cinema forever,

You have a mother and two sisters, you must earn!

I have to stage King Lear among other plays, of course

King Lear is fabulous God ...

"The storm"...

What a play!

That Tsar of Moscow... oh he hated Petersburg!

Window on the world.

One day he came to close the window.

Lock it out.

(Kirov death)

In a party HQ corridor mysteriously unguarded at the time.

Which new powers are already drafted

decreed and dated on his desk in Moscow.

It was freezing medals

The thing has been my honeymoon here

Did mrs Igor like it?

I didn't bring her along here and let he seem to break

Your wife looks like Stalin

Yes, I think her beard is a bit longer.

Has got a better way too

Vania

Someone saw your opera last night.

Dissonant, grinding, screaming, gnashing

crashing and screeching

You're missing the train! Dimitri!

Negative?

For the composer this could end very badly

The most radical experiment in human history

and it did succeed where all the rest have failed

the revolutions set all the creativity free

Now he tells me to stomp on my own creativity!

Should have looked around you .

New people were mean to power

You know the man, you talk to him

Understand, Dimitri

You're being licked into shape

The great soviet composer

oh yes, the man has judgments .

You had this new piece in rehearsal, ever symphonies

Some of the players are being difficult

News gets back

Orchestral players of Smaug They always give the work a hard time

These players are frightened

This new sound of yours...

is violent, black

noises that crash

It is to negative

It is what it is.

Such music speaks of conflict

The revolution has resolved all comfort

Life is merry, our leader tells us so.

Inspired with joy

A symphony must rejoice.

I write what I hear from within myself

which comes from who I am in this world in which I am or else I have no meaning.

This world you're in...

You're in Russia

Stalin is helping Hitler to destroy the communists in Germany

why?

We could help Hitler

it is obscene!

When Hitler has sworn to obliterate this from the earth

Stalin might help him to do that, too

We have a planning meeting:

the defense of Leningrad

We must have anti-aircraft rockets

He doesn't believe in rockets

Because I do ...

He needs me to be wrong

I have talents, he has none .

So I pretend

Guns, bla bla bla the need for so many guns

bla bla bla

Young Igor chips in my second-in-command is briefed

"With respects comrade secretary general"

"with respects the comrade marshal"

lacks visions

He hasn't foreseen the possibility of air attack

world perfect

really

Is he the great helmsman, genius

word to be used, don't leave him

Lacks vision, does he?

That glint in his eye..

Adolf rises rockets

Suppose documents will discover originating in Berlin

implicating me in conspiracy with the Nazi High Command

So easy

The pretext Stalin needs to have me gone

Cities cronies in the saddle for ................

cavalry T heads and think we can gallop to the Brandenburg Gate

Well, Russia would be safer with their horses in command

no rockets then

no marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky,

no Red Army.

Leningrad naked the bombardment from the sky

When that happens thanks Stalin, remember me.

My poor troubles matter very little.

You matter very much.

.. they must eat dumb soldiers can only obey

You have to be true.

That's your contract for the living

You are the one voice by which the truth may still be spoken

and which the people will know for true.

You could stay alive that somehow.

Get back in the saddle, now.

Use this crisis to your own end.

No one would claim that my early music has been perfect.

That new piece of yours it could be.

But draw discreetly. The gesture would be favorably observed

then start a new symphony

One that wings through darkness into light

A program for the party

I feel no light in my heart

You're a composer that's for you to resolve.

But be sure that energy speak to the people

Not only to yourself.

See?

Finland.

We could meet there for our forward basis. if should anyone attack us.

Finland is our friend. We have a special relationship.

And if she denies his bases will attack her.

That's what special relationship means.

Night is coming

Today we condemn and murder others.

Tomorrow we ourselves are condemned and murdered.

Once I believed

we Russians do, we believe

and believe simple things.

After the revolution

Russian soldiers won't kill russian children anymore, we said.

And apples will be for all alike.

Mama's at work.

they're gave is loosely to the journalists

using local coffee I suppose

who came to us and landed like a chicken in the soup

Our brave hero..

guessed the enemie's intentions , a good bound he was free..

ride across the valleys...the rivers..

going on top, this eagle...

At breakday he guessed the enemy's intentions.

With a good bound... he was free

flying cross all the time , cross all these valleys

rivers, fields...

Already guessed the enemy intentions

with good bound ...

Of course this is only a rough cut

but you'll see the problem

Well ?

You don't see ?

"Now great heroe already guessed the enemy's intention

and with a good bound it was free"

It's a quote! A tribute!

Something our comrade leader will later write it himself!

in his short history he see a Caspian campaign

I don't remember the exact battle and

The problem is... Sorry

"Cobar hero of the Caucasus"

This implies that our comrade leader's revolutionary manner

had its roots in a boy's own adventure story

How could the writer be so indempt?

but he changed the book

Director's problem

You'll have to change the music.

Composer's problem.

Our leader is like God.

We do not know his face

He phones people yes

all ours

If he would only write one could show a letter

Such-and-such the Mountain Eagle said to me:

Thus was his word to me

At last a phone call.

It leaves no evidence.

At least you had a phone call.

Out when it came

... a whole week after

Our comrade leader doesn't ring a second time

With Gankoff , he met him, He met him?

Private viewing in the Kremlin to Gankoff latest masterpiece

Who's the director?

Let's have him over, join the viewing party

Start running the film

Comrade leader at the back

To Gankof two rows down in the front

death looked around

Every suffer from the leader, every move to Gankof, death looked around ...

doesn't hear a message brought in at the black

All that Gankof hears is:

"what shit is this?"

and falls flat on the floor and faints.

Well you would, wouldn't? Carrying him out

sweap down the floor, clean his pants

They 've got room for that.

"hmm" says the leader I' m not inviting film directors anymore"

They get carried away.

Are we writing tonight ?

I am a professional of the Petersburg school

Mikhail and other officers asked to report for questioning

Wives and the mistresses helped with inquiries too -

Used to be a joke about Mikhail.

At his funeral there were so many widows

each thinking she's the only one.

well well

and a special education for the children of such men

Look at him : nose without a man

Name?...

From his wife.

Meyerhold, too, helped with the inquieries.

Note the overnight bag we all kept one packed ready

warm underwear, toothbrush, copier Pushkin

might be gone sometime.

Never got around to his King Lear

His wife up there, a large actress, selfish on stage

right now they're cutting out her eyes with knives

Someone must hear, you know us Russians

no smoke without fire not the long since I too would have said

She must have done something.

Humanists from the West

Utopia 1937

Not fascism of course.

Yes, at least it's not fascism.

The car about to help the revolution

but all today must be some hurry to have them gone.

They'll rev the engines

Shooting must not be heard in the street.

he comes here every night this opera is plain

He never miss it

The blood-soaked Tsar who takes upon himself deeds of horror

to make our Russia strong

Impossible!

such things cannot be happening

stone crushers mashed the flesh and bone

the bloody help flushed down the city drains purging mistake

Well ?

AG has been with the Dida

I'm bound to say I never met a fair amount more candid, more honest!

How could anyone possibly be afraid of him?

I don't understand!

Unless they were suffering from guilt

Absolutely !

I did try to understand these people from the West.

they seemed to crave an angry parent for others of course

Must be their education system

Andre you'll quit the blind!

I end in a blaze of joy

D major

Key of joy

Of light.

The symphony must rejoice.

Our leader says so.

To give us a good life and gain his aproval.

A, A flat,

B natural

There's a story about B natural in the older days

The choirs and churches could never sing it in tune.

sometimes they needed it flatter so they made it two notes

they called the flat one B

and the sharp one

C, D

D sharp which also has another name

So it is!

Daddy is laughing!

The most powerful man that has ever been

And we do not know him!

What if he all along if he be right

confess all to us all?

How does one talk with such a man ?

What language does he use?

They say that even with his mother...

son

Your bastard, yes!

You should have been a priest!

You wreched whore!

Get the wrong books again.

Don't they realize the German fascists have always been our friends?

They have a copy of that jew, Karl Marx

Comrade Hitler our eternal ally

They could weep Weep!

Under the blanket No tears in paradise.

Did I tell you that Eisenstein

he's staging well connect up the tiles and you in the cast cover learn turns

Survival Probably after him to survive

No scream

No protest

they come for as we go

we sheeps of Russia

Why does he not send for me?

He must , He will

How can I turn not come?

In nature life is cheap

To save the earth he knows and only he

what must be done.

My sense of my own work as a living person is

is that a myth ?

Must be ready?

Pen, paper, toothbrush

by the door must be ready

And when they start on me

what is it really like?

then well, ice cream ? Yes yes!

To scream is to protest

Dignity is civility.

Damn you damn you who make us think about something

Dad?

Where did the music come from?

My head

My head is a big round world Little demons in it open little doors

and poke their faces out

There's a particularly naughty little demon

Nobody takes any notice

We think he's friendly but he gets bigger.

Bigger and bigger.

Before you know

is trampling everybody down

Is that the story?

That is the story! How is it called?

Simphony number seven

But its real name

No name

Did someone kill him in the end?

Perhaps

Have you been in the West?

They do strange things in the West

..Stover's today Piano finals

Lizst sonata

..

Opus 111. I'll never get away in time.

Meeting ?

You must be joking

..

You have to get these little creature to play faster

HITLER HAS BROKEN TREATY WAR

Out!

Damn!

Where are going ?

To the cellars .

..

Copy of "my Kampf" came true

all helmsman of genius

how can he? Hitler is my friend

he is not brother who signed an agreement

to share Europe

why has Leningrad no anti-air craft rockets?

Who has left Leningrad naked to the air ?

Who is to blame?

We shall be our fraternal Ally now

Who will help us conquer Europe now?

A volunteer They ought to refuse me

Your ...

People are eating rats to stay alive

... higher duty

fiddling we have a conservatory roof is

on high requires you on a broader front

Behalf of minds of our fraternal allies especially America

You're living safe to finish that new symphony

You're exterminating Giants The enemies of life

yeah well now it's enemy of Leningrad

and .. my own kid

yes look at him! The top musician in the city

and there one German shell would make ...

that was city commander

Makes good news

oh, true! That helps

Who's directing it? Eisenstein

copious map you do anything to maybe look ridiculous

.. you glorifying Ivan the terrible now

call it doesn't show their little first work

Out from the hell of Leningrad before the belching miles of nazi dance

Across the frozen wastes born ..

south across the peaks of Georgia a secret weapon comes

mightier than steel

Maharaj rendezvous in the desert Sutherland

by motorcycle

truck, Cairo

Gibraltar

What is this secret? Hands, designs, a formula?

Brainchild of some russian Einstein

None of these !

These experts are the generalissimo-s of the symphony

Maestro Toscanini and...

A weapon forged in the inferno of conflict

with the Soviet ancestral foe the Hun.

There's a new new symfonic masterwork born with a "A'

The Leningrad symphony with its graphic depiction of a Nazi hordes

comes music from the flames

To set America aflame in the cause of Liberty

Our russian Einstein is a Dervis private little man but a hero

Seen here in a rare footage.

shoulder to shoulder with the citizens of Leningrad

fighting to save their ancient city from the flames.

Oh Leningrad!

Leningrad!

900 days.

the Siege 900 days

we ate human flesh to survive

to survive...

we ate the Jews first because they did not fight

War is easy we were told

and when we won all this at the mercy of our Savior again

Oh Leningrad, my Leningrad

Nothing changes.

Only the tyrants learn from history.

All who fight for us now in the West

and live to come home true heroes of our land

but what they have learned outside shall vanish in mass graves.

Our tzar will see to that.

And our deeper war continue.

Symphonies, tombstones of the siege

He'll be wanting an eighth Symphony next

then a ninth.

A monumental Beethoven ode to...

EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE OF SOVIET MUSICIANS MOSCOW-JANUARY 1948

So commander Zdanov is a music critic now?

I heard comrade Prokofief will stand up

Comrade musicians

permit me a few opening remarks

on the role of the creative artist in the society

in the West the artist is a mere ornament

victim to market forces.

He can be made or broken

by the votes of a narrow intellectual elite

Whether he live or starve depends on how fashionable he is

THis so-called freedom is a struggle to survive

We..

we value our artists.

We recognize the gifts he brings

as any science, any technology, poetry, art, music

are vital to our humanity.

Our institutions therefore accord the artists proper status in our society

He enjoys his rightful place

but with that status comes responsibility.

We are here today to examine that responsibility.

In the West, yes, the artist is free to dabble in abstractions

in sentimental nihilism

in meaningless.. itself

We, the people demand that you touch us, that you reach into us

that your creations be of meaning to us

In a word that you speak!

Have we, in our Soviet music the beginnings of a failure?

Trouble with Zdanov, right?

Invidious on some names and I would not!

Khatchaturyan looks unhappy

But for certain reasons or disappointments in the field of opera

and symphony and opera of Comrade Buratelli

certain choral and orchestral pieces

from comrade Prokofiev

Gargolovsky the shadows at every platform

from Shostakovich

But it may argue?

Why should I, a Prokofiev respect the opinions of a tractor driver from Tashkent?

Why should a smelter from Smolensk dictates my harmonies to me?

A Shostakovich ?

Name two or three symphonic stars

whom the West has taken to its ruting odd

while even here at home thanks to the influence

of a Leningrad clique of musicologist so-called

others among us who labor to uphold more tuneful values

are treated with contempt.

Their works not performed

their names not even heard .

My comrades, I am no musician well as I heard it said

Andrey Aleksandrovich no musician

but he knows 600 folk songs

what a thing to say

I only know 300!

Letters !

These are letters from workers!

From factories and collectives everywhere!

These can hear when a composer violates the natural laws!

these can tell gratuitous dissonance,

ugly clapping, noises that creek and crush

for the symptoms that they are:

of a concept of life too negative

As for example in some recent work from comrade Shostakovich

who appears to have lost again the number nine

that mighty consumating number with all its resonance of the great Beethoven

at a time of epic liberation by our Savior Generalissimo Stalin

sole architect of our victory

What does our last comrades deliver ?

Carnival squeaks!

Hooligan squawkings!

A satanic satire perhaps to include in its main theme

a yankee sergeant whistling

Well, what can our comrade be telling us?

I , Sostakovich personally deflate the myth of number 9

I Dmitri Dmitrievich private individual

I... I have some personal whim

I will assert

Comrades

Comrades Zhdanov has done well

sounded may I say a note of

warning

All my career rather since and earlier most salutary warning

I have sought my meaning

I have sought to speak to the living

do I begin to fail ?

do I fall too much beneath my own private shadow

and fail to speak openly and plainly to the living and with objectivity?

then yes I failed

I failed by the standards of the highest art which are the only standards

and I am grateful to you all

that you rebuke me, yes! To be sure!

It is also right and proper.

at the Conservatoire that my son also denounces me

to be sure to reach the people

That is the question

but how is it done?

I expect to receive instruction from you

I will study it with deep interest

What are they afraid I'll do

A harmony too problematic for the people

We... we value our artist.

We recognize the gift he brings.

As any science any technology, poetry, music are vital to our humanity

our institutions therefore accord the artist proper status in our society

he enjoys his rightful place

Promise them

yes, promise them a project ,

massive

Three symphonies

A revolutionary trilogy

The people

Lenin

Stalin

Defect?

Exile is the worst death.

Pushkin, he too.

"With my talents and my luck" he said

"to be born in Russia, stupid"

No one mentioned Chekhov.

The true craftsman. "I put my hand" he said "to anything"

"except denounciations"

I wish mama didn't have to work so far away

She does.

A friend requires it.

Her lover.

keep them off my back a year or so

By time I have my contract with the living

I must live to honor that

What are you?

By what we billions obey?

hatred of ourselves

guilt of the Living guilty that we sang

Gift has separated me gift has elevated me so I punish my gift to bring myself down

equal

Strength through joy.

daddy , daddy isThomas darling

He's just coming

yes?

America

I'm sorry? New York

Comrade Shostakovich

Yes

The cultural and scientific Congress on world peace

Next month we must encourage peace-loving peoples

Of course.

the Pentagon's new North Atlantic Treaty

you understand is causing concern

you will be the star of our Soviet delegation

current general secretary I'm amazed that you regard me as worthy

You are a

brightest and most talented no false modesty

all the same I ...

It will... America I... People will ask me how work

of Prokofiev and Khachaturian and myself...

The people will ask me

how can I just represent the country where my works are bound

In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics no work is bad

and there are contexts in which performance it is unwise

where that concerns you we should perhaps look into that

I'm sick and tired...

yes I hear you dislike fly

We'll send you a doctor.

Good night

so much

you are a brightest and most talented no false modesty

No work is bad in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

there are contexts in which performance is unwise

later when you say about the

No political questions we are artists

but are we really individuals

Your program

This evening 7:45 grand banquet of welcome Waldorf Astoria Hotel

Friday 10:30 a.m. press conference

11:45 visit to the ambassador's residence

...Stalin butcher

Sunday Madison Square Gardens 8 p.m.

Peace rally

You will play a piano version of the schedule from your Symphony number 5

When do we leave for New Jersey ?

New York is horrible, is everything Gorky says

City of the yellow death

New Jersey is canceled

Yale is also canceled from the university authorities

Everything for me would serve no educational purpose

Stravinsky

your fellow composer

He's behind all this

he has all the American Universities sewn up

bitches

academics

Stravinsky is wrong.

He refuses to sign a telegram ... us

Mc Witch, your client thank you

All I wish from the comrade Sostakovich is an answer

does he or does he not accept the criticism voiced against him by the party

at last year's special comments

I repeat

the criticism of the party

was most accurate

Was it just?

I endeavoured to respect it in practice

and what in practice does that mean my music must answer that

What music you have written since?

A film score for the younger

"A Cantata on a forestation "

Are you saying that these are your real music now?

Did you repudiate those symphonies you wrote before?

But the 5th?

I want to claim that his ...

My earlier music has been... You repudiate it?

Why are you so interested in me?

I'm one among so many and I'm not the only soviet composer

... that'll you know that

Comrade Shostakovich we still await your answer!

The 8th symphony for instance

denounced in Moscow as the work of a frightened man.

Are you frightened?

My music is not to be discussed in personal terms

Oh God, Shostakovich!

Yours is very personal

My personality is irrelevant

Music must transcend mere personality

That is the struggle of every true artist

Well' let's discuss the music of others, Prokofiev and Khachaturian

also criticize our comrades

Surely you have an attitude to error.

Error is error to be repudiated and purged

Is the error of a comrade colleague such as Khachaturian

No concern to you Dimitri Dimitrievici?

Answer, please!

It says here

Mister Shostakovici

do you or do you not denounce as error

the work of your fellow musician Stravinsky?

Where we have relapsed into formalism we can't ..

What is formalism ?

Form for form's sake.

Serve it from experience. You asked about other composers.

Stravinsky all I can say is I agree

He has betrayed his land, he has severed himself from his own people

Result his music is morally barren intellectual

at least the colleagues you mentioned seek to serve people.

Prokofiev Hachaturian

They as I must heed the directive of the Central Committee

if we are not to lapse into form for forms sake

I denounce the error!

I should have said no at the beginning like Mandelstam

We are chickens

we see only one grain at a time peck peck

to the farmer grabs us chopped

Get up, Dimitri!

Could it be me in America

now price of among

Prokofiev doesn't stand a chance

.. international a

perfectly good answer, not russian of course.

as for instance elephants these days are russian

Karl Marx is russian, Isaac Newton is russian

The moon is Russian.

as our minion radio would say

first prize: dinner with Stalin

second prize: a week with Stalin.

Old joke.

Candidates on stage!

We are about to declare.

I am awake like Dostoyevsky on his way to execution.

Vivid as never before.

I'm Shostakovich on my way to meet Stalin

All my life has been a dream for this moment

Stop twitching Remember the joke

Who is Nicolas the first ?

Tzar in the time of Pushkin

have I everything to lose and that is lost.

Courage comes easy now

A black monk's name is death

I must keep my trousers clean

Comrade, well done

Well done!

It had to be your tune at one

I like a tune

rolls to the occasion

You know that?

You are the brightest and the most talented

You know that ?

I am honored comrade general secretary that you regard me so

Your friend Khachaturian spins a good melody

Is not russian, of course.

Comrade, sing me tight

spoiled is calling in our view

you should D flat clarinet

sardonic thunder

sarcastic

we don't like that

Let it aside comrade Shostakovich

Your ninth symphony

the number nine

perhaps..

I should retitle it Sinfonietta

Reserve the number nine for my next

An ode to joy!

I shall feel equal, Comrade Stalin

I assure you.

I enjoy my conversations with creative men.

Where do they come,from I wonder

wills noises in their head

On stage comrades

Let's see noble anthem Shostakovich has composed

Will you, on my right ?

If comrade Shostakovich will allow me to conduct!

Leningrad naked to bombard from the sky

When that happens thanks Stalin

Remember me.

.. to that studio

and that crazy Christian woman

.. recording he'll ask him for

..

Find me a conductor,,!

Clean that floor !

Today we condemn and murder others

Tomorrow we ourselves are condemned and murdered

To where?

the Communist party's policy includes...

...

We shall handsome

To reach the people, that is the question

and how is it done

shall handsome

He killed the giant in the end? Perhaps

What if he all along if he be right?

confess to us all

On the night of the 1st and 2nd of March

music the first solid incurred a hemorrhage of the brain

the left hemisphere to high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis

drive in the south

the cardiovascular system namely a high blood pressure ...

You're not dead!

enlargement of the heart from the first days of illness the temperature rose

and high glucose opposes began

which could have implicated the development of the pneumonia

On the last day of the illness the sudden deterioration of the general condition

was attended by repeated are thought to persevere and acute cardiovascular deficency...

urine analysis...

Urine analysis?

When they announced that I thought the demigod please..

you're lying there listening to everything we say

Communist Party of the Soviet...

And you will rise again

God's hammer

The immortal name of Stalin will be forever...

Sheep..Their Shephard gone

A message from the central comitee of the Comunist Party of the Soviet union

If only we russian people had one neck

I'm alive and you're dead!

Our rough hammer could not create anything

without a master to direct its blows

I forget him for coming at the funeral

died the same day

jumped up with excitement and drop dead!

for jump

and he called himself a gambler !

God! The great craftsman

Oh let the hammer fall!

.. me

Father!

you Westerners think we in Russia talk politics all the time.

there are no politics in Russia

But surely the dialectics of harmony symphonic revolutionary in context of struggle

how can you Russians not discuss such things?

We manage.

We manage.

Lots of problems fascinate musicians here

Amma's all she put away so much booze

Tchaikovsky's homosexuality -

Dimitri, you're being grow

No memorial here.

Only the cliff.

Here were ...chasms

Grim forms of stone

The brink of a ravine

clenched fists of rock.

The very reek of death.

They filed along the rink

they stood astride the grave shots ran out

the bodies fell into the ravine

Next, more came grain merchants

women with lace umbrellas.

All stood along the brink

Shots rang out their bodies fell into the ravine

some kicked there by boots

next some of the children now

Come rabbi, sing !

Sing for the children to dance!

kill the EDS, save our Russia!

Dance children,dance!

the shots ran out, their bodies fell into the ravine

At last a union of the Russian people!

Next

Fascist atrocity, of course.

"Pogrom" however is a Russian word.

These are the sounds of spring.

We embrace in the darkness.

Do I hear them breaking down the door?

No, it's the ice breaking.

My dear, nothing happened here.

No history, no memorial.

Nothing is very real of any of us.

But with that status comes responsibility

We are here today to exact that responsibility

It's the noise of springtime birth

Spring is here

Breaking ice

what you're already telling us

Hi Dmitry Dimitrievici

a private individual

abuse the victory

I have some principal cause

Have you seen my husband?

Have you seen my son?

Once I've believed, we Russians do, we believe

and believe simple things.

After the revolution russian soldiers won't kill russian children anymore, we said

and apples will be for all alike.

Only one virtue dying enforces economy.

One note must do the work of 10.

I write music to make people ill.

Did you know that?

That rehearsal of my 14th symphony

a cultural commissar stood up and dropped dead

He got the message.

you mustn't laugh, to laugh will kill me.

Bastard!

You hijacked my soul

Something died from your music , when I died.

You stopped speaking.

All necessity, you see.

I made a great composer of you, damn it!

You left me a barren tree to pluck poor fruit.

who is there anywhere in any time to come to live his life from the life you lost all

I am the enemy you loved my friend.

Together again I see?

the foul and his tzar

I made Russia strong

I found her a medieval topper

No one tampers with Russia now.

Or did you do?

Truth half some set values

streaks and bangs thumps are howling in the head

My music speaks reaches out to people

where nothing else can touch, it's a warning.

We must stop that.

Can't hurt people living where we can't reach.

That's my meaning!

I destroyed what you call truthfulness

yours being with life must die

you... ah my friend

it's long bleak coda into the dark

That is your significance

And what people really want my friend one day you'll see

they'll ask me back

what conduct

their black/white just 30 grade

Stan Dimitri you're being licked into shape.

The great Soviet composer.

oh yes the man has judgments.

I write what I hear from within myself

which comes from who I am in this world in which I am or else I have no meaning.

This world you're in..

You're in Russia

Come on, fool!

So ...

was that all ?

Soon the ravens will be here.

A lovely corps.

What did the man die of?

Nerves?

Hot?

Of quicklime in the blood which Stalin fed me

Bury me well or else like Gogol I might vanish from my grave.

Ask me nothing anymore.

Ask the music.