Looking for Alexandra (1990)

Documentary №9902, 4 parts, duration: 0:37:55
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Director:Agadzhanyan E., Kudryashova G.
Screenwriters:Karadzhev B.
Camera operators:Belov I., Zaycev A.

Annotation:

The film is based THAT "Contemporary" and the Dutch studio "Ondermeer prodyuksiz." The fate of the talented artist, his wife Alexandra VETatlin Korsakov after the controversial death of which raises the question of its heritage. About her recall her relatives.

Reel №1

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Paintings A.N.Korsakovoy.

June 7, 1990, Obydenskiy Lane, Temple of Elijah the Prophet everyday.

Burning candles.

People are going to the temple for the ceremony in absentia funeral A.N.Korsakovoy.

The priest conducts the service. B.A.Ahmadulina.

Friends and relatives A.N.Korsakovoy with candles in their hands.

The interiors of the temple.

On the TV video footage opening apartments A.N.Korsakovoy police and witnesses.

The camera enters the room, on the wall opposite the door portrait VETatlin. A.N.Korsakova on the bed.

On the floor beside the bed slippers and toiletries.

The policeman looks at the record.

The door opens.

Men carry a coffin A.N.Korsakovoy ahead is a portrait of a young man in his hands.

The operator follows A.N.Korsakovoy neighbor across the courtyard.

The woman tells the windows open.

On the gas pipe sits dove.

The camera goes up on the wall of the house.

Tree branches on the background of walls, windows of apartments.

The lift-up (shot in the stairwell).

People in the entrance (neighbors and members of the Union of Artists) discuss the upcoming inventory.

Signal elevator cab moves down.

View of the entrance to the room from the hallway A.N.Korsakovoy.

Dried roses on a table in the kitchen.

Drawing on the wall.

Shelf with utensils.

Pictures.

Elderly woman talking to reporters in the kitchen.

Boiling kettle.

A man among the paintings.

Man and woman together examine the paintings.

Dried flowers in vases and jars.

The inscription on the back of the picture.

A.N.Korsakovoy room, on the walls hang paintings.

The paintings in the next room are on the table books and sketches.

Telephone and radio on the bedside table in the headboard.

Perfumes and other care products on the pier-glass table.

Wardrobe.

On the windowsill is a candlestick near sprinkled on a trifle.

Alternating: the neighbor tells A.N.Korsakovoy children swinging on a swing.

Key words

Russian avant-garde.
Graphics.
Constructivism.

Personnel:

Ahmadulina BA - Poet, writer, translator and social activist.

Locations: Moscow [820]

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Warehouse paintings in one of the rooms.

July 20, 1990 in the apartment A.N.Korsakovoy working committee of the Union of Artists of the creative heritage.

Man includes a VCR.

People gathered for a smoke in the stairwell.

Video footage on a TV screen.

Tea drinking in one of the rooms, the members of the Union of Artists talk with foreign guests.

View from the window.

June 8, 1990, Nicholas Archangel Cemetery, cremation hall.

Before the window lit candles.

Coffin A.N.Korsakovoy.

People turn say goodbye to the deceased.

Men move the coffin on the cremation rolling table.

An empty playground.

Says a neighbor A.N.Korsakovoy.

The branches of the tree in front of the arch, the arch out of the man.

View of the arch from the yard.

June 8, 1990, Gogol Boulevard, House of Artists, courtyard.

The man puts on a tray and place in bowl hall door.

Commemoration of A.N.Korsakovoy.

Says R.A.Bykov.

Friends and relatives of the deceased at the table.

Portrait A.N.Korsakovoy.

Tables and chairs in the courtyard.

Portrait A.N.Korsakovoy.

B.A.Ahmadulina reading poetry.

Alternating: the people behind the desk, relatives and friends remember A.N.Korsakovu.

In the yard of a woman cleans dishes from the table.

A man with a package near the telephone booths.

Member of the Union of Artists of talking to a relative of the deceased.

The movement of public transport.

People stand at the entrance.

Key words

Russian avant-garde.
Graphics.
Constructivism.

Personnel:

Ahmadulina BA - Poet, writer, translator and social activist. Bulls RA - Actor, director, screenwriter, People's Artist of the USSR.

Locations: Moscow [820]

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The man is a lift, stall omitted.

Says a neighbor A.N.Korsakovoy (Shooting on the landing near the mailbox).

View of the elevator shaft.

People come to the door of the apartment, the door sealed.

Says a neighbor A.N.Korsakovoy.

Mailboxes.

The door to the apartment unlocked, remove the print, people go inside.

In the area a lift, a neighbor comes out of the cab A.N.Korsakovoy.

A woman walks down the stairs.

The members of the Commission of the Union of Artists of the apartment A.N.Korsakovoy.

Artists are sorted out and examine the paintings and talk about exhibitions, note the absence of the work.

The paintings on the shelves.

Walk-in workshop.

Kitchen.

Elderly woman talking to reporters in the kitchen.

Entrance to the room A.N.Korsakovoy, unstuck VETatlin angle portrait on the wall.

June 8, 1990, Nicholas Archangel Cemetery, cremation hall.

The coffin was lowered into the furnace A.N.Korsakovoy.

A neighbor of the deceased checks doorbell and tells how A.N.Korsakova usually opens the door.

Video footage on a TV screen.

Drugs on the table.

The policeman writes testimony A.N.Korsakovoy neighbor.

On the floor beside the bed slippers and toiletries.

Bedside table in the headboard, nightstand cups, drugs and phone off hook.

In answering questions policeman.

June 8, 1990, Nicholas Archangel Cemetery, cremation hall.

Closes the door table oven.

Arch in the yard A.N.Korsakovoy.

Apartment A.N.Korsakovoy, members of the Union of Artists talk with foreign guests.

People looking at the photos, behind the scenes sound memories of the deceased.

The man closes the door to the room, the hallway is a woman.

Key words

Russian avant-garde.
Graphics.
Constructivism.

Locations: Moscow [820]

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The cassette is inserted into the VCR.

Policeman overwrites the data from the passport A.N.Korsakovoy.

Video footage on a TV screen.

Neighbors talk with members of the Union of Artists.

Pictures of the window and on the shelves.

View from the darkroom to the people in the hallway.

Overturn the swing in the yard.

Boiler room.

House.

Crohn tree.

View from the window.

Half-empty apartment A.N.Korsakovoy.

The walls are picture frames, traces of repairs in the apartment.

Walk-in workshop.

Paintings on the walls of the living room.

Disassembled wardrobe.

An empty playground.

Neighbor A.N.Korsakovoy for sewing, fragments of the room.

A child comes into the arch.

Neighbor A.N.Korsakovoy a dress before a mirror.

On the table, portrait, icon, phone, mirror, notebooks, at the edge of the mirror is miniature.

Shots documentary chronicles:

VETatlin at the table with figures.

Neighbor A.N.Korsakovoy the mirror.

Exhibition of paintings A.N.Korsakovoy.

Reflections in a glass whirling sling.

An empty playground.

Key words

Russian avant-garde.
Graphics.
Constructivism.

Personnel:

Tatlin VE - Avant-garde artist, graphic designer, theater artist.

Locations: Moscow [820]

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