Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, different years.
Work in the Union of composers.
Concert poster.
The composer writes in a music notebook.
Shostakovich talks with the musician.
Applause and congratulations in the final of the concert.
Chronicle of the war years:
The siege of Leningrad, people raise the fallen woman.
Manufacture of shells at the factory.
Antitank hedgehogs on the street.
At the time of the cruiser "Aurora".
The street are soldiers.
D. D. Shostakovich at the piano.
Work on the Leningrad Symphony (№ 7).
Fires.
Shoots anti-aircraft gun.
Destroyed house.
A man collects bombs at the factory.
A woman faints in the street.
Machinist.
Old woman.
People collect water in buckets.
Soldiers charged gun.
Gun shoots.
Moscow, types of the Kremlin, pleasure boats.
Chronicle of the war years:
The destroyed Hermitage and other buildings.
A man picks up the statue's head and takes.
Ruined temple.
D. Shostakovich with his wife and children.
The composer is working on a new work.
Rehearsal with the orchestra.
Work in the office (the composer writes notes, playing the piano).
D. Shostakovich in the garden.
Personnel:
Shostakovich D.D. -- Soviet composer, musical and public figure, doctor of arts, Professor, teacher, people's artist of USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor.
Calendar: 1976 1939 1941-1945
Locations: Moscow [820] Leningrad [848]
Great hall of Moscow Conservatory, chandeliers from the ceiling.
Portraits of composers on the walls.
The audience in the hall.
Applause.
Locations: Moscow [820]
The performance of the 7th Symphony of Shostakovich, conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
Personnel:
Temirkanov Yu.H. -- conductor, pedagogue, public figure, people's artist of USSR, people's artist of Kabardino-Balkar ASSR.
Locations: Moscow [820]
Waving in the wind flag.
The Skyscrapers Of New York.
Drive up to the building of the machine.
The Statue Of Liberty.
The orchestra plays the Leningrad Symphony of D. D. Shostakovich, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
The applause of the audience.
Post-war London (shots chronicle the different years).
The orchestra under L. Stokowski plays the "Internationale."
The Centre Of Paris.
People on the streets.
Calendar: 1930s 1940e
Locations: New York [856] London [870] Paris [850]
The Funeral Of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Fragments of a farewell in the Great hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the funeral at Novodevichy cemetery.
Among those present the composer's son Maxim Shostakovich with the family, other relatives and friends; speeches were made by the composers Otar Taktakishvili and Andrei Petrov.
Personnel:
Shostakovich D.D. -- Soviet composer, musical and public figure, doctor of arts, Professor, teacher, people's artist of USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor. Shostakovich M.D. -- pianist, conductor, Honored artist of the RSFSR, the son of composer Dmitry Shostakovich. Taktakishvili O.V. -- Georgian composer, conductor and music pedagogue, public figure, people's artist of the USSR. Petrov A.P. -- Soviet composer and public figure, Honored art worker of the RSFSR, people's artist of the USSR.
Calendar: 14.08.1975
Locations: Moscow [820]
Seasons: Summer [824]