Batozhabay in flashback (1991)

Photo of a baby.

Buryatia.

A Buddhist holiday.

A big bonfire is burning.

A ceremony is held, the shaman beats a tambourine, and so on.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Photo of Batozhabai B. O. - Buryat novelist and playwright.

Buryatia, the village of Dogoy.

Celebration of the New Year according to the lunar calendar (White Month holiday).

A choir of Buryats in national costumes sings on stage.

The audience is sitting in the hall.

The audience applauds.

Children in national costumes are on stage.

A family feast in the apartment - Buryats are sitting at a large covered table.

A group of girls in the room is playing, dancing, a group of boys are playing board games.

Says Dashitsyren Dashibymbrylov.

Mountain landscape.

Steppe, snow, there is a Buryat yurt.

Horses tied to a post.

View of mountains, forests, hills.

In the frame is Lhamasu Batozhabai, the writer's widow.

Panorama of the steppe.

Lhamasu Batozhabai listens to a song in Buryat from a tape recorder. L. Batozhabai turns off the tape recorder and begins to talk about her husband.

Lyksok Erdyneev, a classmate of the writer, speaks.

In the frame - a workshop, Buryat utensils and dishes.

Says Balzhinima Olzobaev, a classmate of the writer.

A childhood friend, Balzhinima Nanzadon, remembers about the writer.

Nanzadon stands with his wife near a pen with a flock of sheep.

An AN-24B plane is taxiing on the runway.

The general plan is an Aeroflot plane, with mountains in the background.

The plane, the runway, people take things out of the luggage compartment.

Airfield, planes.

The writer Dashirabdan Batozhabai is remembered by front-line friends - Grigory Osrtovsky, Sergey Baldaev and Bazar-Gure Tsygenov.

Says Lhamasu Batozhabai - the widow of the writer.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Photo of Batozhabai B. O. Says L. Batozhabai.

His fellow student at the Literary Institute, poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, tells about Batozhabai.

In the frame is Tsypyl Chimitova, a typist-translator.

Excerpt from the film "The Song of the Herdsman" based on the story of Batozhabai (dir.

Frolov A., 1956).

Says the screenwriter Valentin Yezhov.

A film studio, a pavilion, film auditions for a feature film about the Decembrists are being filmed.

Director Baras Khalzanov works with actors.

Khalzanov recalls Batozhabai.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Photo Batozhabaya B. O. Panorama of the departmental building.

Says Lombo Tsydypov, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Buryatia.

A Buddhist holiday, a clergyman beats a gong, a divine service in a datsan.

Says the poet, lama of the Ivolginsky datsan Matvey Choibonov.

Lama Chimit-Dorzhi Dugarov recalls the writer Batozhabai.

A close-up portrait of the writer, a panorama on a table with paints.

The writer Dashirabdan Batozhabai is remembered by his artist friend Dashinima Dugarov.

The writer's brother, Sheribazar Gomboev, is sitting at the table with his wife.

Gomboev tells about Batozhabai.

Says the chairman of the agrofirm "Russia" Vladimir Rabdanov.

City street, square, taxi car, driver at the wheel.

Says taxi driver Joseph Sahin.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Photo of Batozhabai B. O. Ulan-Ude, city streets.

The car passes by the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theater named after Tsydynzhapov, goes down the street, straight (removed from traffic).

Says Lhamasu Batozhabai, the writer's widow.

Buryat Drama Theater.

The stage, there is a chair.

An empty auditorium.

The voice of the writer Lhamasu Batozhabai is heard in the recording.

Entrance to the theater, posters.

Says the director of the theater - Fedor Sakhirov.

The poet Nikolay Damdinov recalls the Buryat writer Dashirabdan Batozhabai.

Says Vasily Naidakov, Doctor of Philology.

The doctor Galina Dugarova remembers about the writer, about his last days.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Photo Batozhabaya B. O. Says the screenwriter Valentin Yezhov.

In the frame is the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Photo of a baby.

Photos from the family archive of Batozhabaev - writer with his wife, in military uniform, in Moscow near the Lenin Mausoleum, with relatives, friends, colleagues, children, etc.

Photo of Dashirabdan Batozhabai at a typewriter.

Photo.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Lhamasu Batozhabai, the writer's widow, sings softly.

Large - the hand cleans the tombstone from the snow.

The writer's widow is at the cemetery, at his grave.

A large tombstone, incense is smoking.

Cemetery, grave of Dashirabdan Batozhabai.

An apartment, a woman in a room with small children, grandchildren in the kitchen with Lhamasu Batozhabai.

The writer's widow is in the room, at the table on which the photos from the family album are lying, quietly humming.

In the frame is the writer's daughter, Darizhab.

Buryat holiday, round dance around the campfire.

Large - the flame of the fire.

Photo of a baby.