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PAGES FROM THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO, ARTIST, WRITER, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR ,POET, CITIZEN. (10/12/1884 - 11/26/56. art. culture, film, communism, soviet union
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VARIOUS CU SHOTS RAIN FALLING ON APPLES ON TREE. VOICE OVER "FOR THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO". LS BIRDS (GEESE ?) FLYING IN FORMATION.
NARRATOR SPEAKS FOR THE LATE DOVZHENKO, "BIRDS FLYING OVERHEAD ALWAYS EXCITE ME". "EVER SINCE MY CHILDHOOD.....". |
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TITLE: "BIRDS FLYING OVERHEAD; PAGES FROM THE LIFE OF ARTIST AND CITIZEN".
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VARIOUS SCENES PICTURESQUE DESNA RIVER. CU PAINTING OF DESNA RIVER BY DOVZHENKO, PAN TO ONE OF HIS RELIGIOUS PAINTINGS.
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LS HOME WHERE DOVZHENKO WAS BORN IN VILLAGE OF SOSNYTSIA, UKRAINE. PAN SMALL ROOM IN HOUSE WITH PAINTINGS OF FATHER AND MOTHER OF DOVZHENKO ABOVE BED. "MY FATHER AND MOTHER, GRAND MOTHER AND GREAT GRANDMOTHER WERE ALL ILLITERATE". "IN ALL MY FILMS YOU WILL FIND SCENES OF PARTING, THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE SAYING GOODBYE AND HURRYING OFF TO FAR AWAY PLACES........".
PAN OTHER PAINTINGS AND MEMORABILIA IN SMALL HOUSE. STATUE OF YOUNG MAN (DOVZHENKO ?) IN GARDEN SEEMING TO BE LOOKING AT THATCHED ROOF OF HOUSE. |
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DIRECTOR DOVZHENKO AND FELLOW ARTISTS ON SITE DURING FILM-MAKING (JUNE 1926 ?) , DOVZHENKO ADDRESSING FILM AUDIENCE FROM STAGE. APPLAUDING THEATER AUDIENCE CIRCA 1926 VARIOUS ACTION SCENES FROM DOVZHENKO'S FIRST FILM, CALLED " THE DIPLOMATIC COURIER'S POUCH". MS SCENE IN FILM SHOWS DOVZHENKO IN, "THE ONLY ROLE I EVER PLAYED". SCENE - MAN GIVES HIM PAPERS, HE THROWS THEM IN THE MAN'S FACE.
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PICTURESQUE SCENE SEA GULL SWOOPING OVER WAVY SEA. PAN PICTURESQUE FOREST ALONG RIVER, VOICE OVER, "ZVENIGORA" IN MY MIND REMAIN MY MOST INTERESTING CREATION". CIRCA 1927 FILM SCENES OF AMERICAN INDIANS ON HORSEBACK GALLOPING THROUGH WOODS. "IT WAS THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION THAT MADE A CINEMATOGRAPHER OUT OF ME". CU ZOOM AWAY TYPEWRITER CIRCA 1920S.
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VARIOUS SCENES FROM DOVZHENKO'S FILM "ARSENAL". RUSSIAN FIRING SQUAD AIMING AT VICTIM WHO RIPS HIS SHIRT OPEN, INVITING THE EXECUTION. HIS AIM IN FILM WAS TO"
CARRY OUT THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION". LS BIRDS IN FLIGHT. TILT DOWN TO STATUE OF FILM- MAKER IN GARDEN. |
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VARIOUS SCENES FROM 1930 DOVZHENKO FILM, "THE LAND". SHOWS MAN WALKING DOWN COUNTRY ROAD TOWARDS CAMERA, SUDDENLY BREAKING INTO A RUSSIAN DANCE AS HE MOVES ALONG, THE DANCE GETS INTENSE, MAN DROPS DEAD ON ROAD. CU DEAD MAN'S FACE BRUSHES ACROSS LEAVES ON APPLE TREE AS HE IS BEING CARRIED. ABOVE VIEW HORDES OF MUSLIMS ON ROAD TO MECCA (?). OLD PEASANT WOMAN DOING THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. WOMAN ON BED STRAINING TO GIVE BIRTH AS ANOTHER PEASANT WOMAN HELPS.
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CU INTERNATIONAL MEDAL GIVEN TO DOVZHENKO FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY.
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VARIOUS SCENES FROM FILM "IVAN" (1932).SMILING MUSCULAR YOUNG WORKER SPITS ON HANDS BEFORE USING SLEDGE HAMMER. HUGE BUCKET OF CEMENT BEING LOWERED AT SITE OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE DNIEPER POWER STATION. "IT IS HERE THAT I FILMED "IVAN" STARRING DANIEL DEMUTSKY. (CHOREOGRAPHER)". ABOVE PAN CONSTRUCTION, DAM.
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VARIOUS SHOTS PICTURESQUE DESNA RIVER.
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MS ZOOM IN PHOTO STERN FACED DOVZHENKO DURING HIS DIRECTION OF FILM "SHCHORS". FILM CLIP SHOWS ANIMATED DOVZHENKO DIRECTING AS CAMERAMAN POINTS HUGE CIRCA 10920S FILM CAMERA IN B/G. MS DOVZHENKO DEMONSTRATES WITH GESTURES TO ACTOR IN ARMY UNIFORM. VARIOUS SCENES FROM ACTION FILM.
RUSSIAN CAVALRY UNDER CANNON ATTACK IN WHEAT FIELDS. DOVZHENKO DIRECTS FROM PLATFORM DURING STREET SCENE. CROWD WATCHING CAVALRY PARADE IN B/G LS EXPLOSIONS IN FIELD AMID RUSSIAN TROOPS CARRYING DEAD SOLDIER ABOVE THEIR HEADS, ON STRETCHER. SOLDIER WALKS HIS HORSE CONTAINING DEAD COMRADE. BIRDS FLY OVERHEAD. "I PUT ALL MY LOVE AND ENERGY INTO THE FILM". |
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PHOTO WAR CORRESPONDENT DOVZHENKO IN UNIFORM DURING WWII. VARIOUS WWII BATTLE SCENES. RUSSIAN REFUGEES ON ROAD, BOMBS DROPPED FROM PLANES;
EXPLOSIONS. |
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DOVZHENKO MAKING DRAMATIC SPEECH BEFORE MICROPHONES.
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MS DOVZHENKO AND OTHERS WALK THROUGH FIELDS WITH SEED POUCH ON SHOULDERS, SPREAD SEEDS AS THEY WALK IN PLOWED FIELD. DURING THIS PERIOD HE WAS COMPLETING HIS WORK ON "MICHURIN" (IVAN MICHURIN WAS BOTANIST AND ASSOCIATE OF LENIN). VARIOUS COLOR SHOTS FLOWERING FIELDS AND FRUIT TREES. VARIOUS SHOTS MICHURIN WALKING HURRIEDLY THROUGH FOREST. STANDING IN WIND BLOWN FIELD, PUTS HANDS TO HIS FACE IN PROTECTIVE GESTURE. "I GET PLEASURE IN WRITING ABOUT THIS TRUE ASSOCIATE OF LENIN, THIS MODEST PERSON DEEPLY DEDICATED TO COMMUNISM....". "IN HIM I SEE MYSELF, PARDON THIS COMPARISON". LS GOOSE FLYING LOW OVER LAKE. AERIAL PAN POWER PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
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VARIOUS SHOTS DOVZHENKO IN WHEAT FIELD WITH ANOTHER MAN. VARIOUS DRAWINGS BY DOVZHENKO WHILE HE WAS DEEPLY EMERSED IN HIS LAST WORK, "POEM OF THE SEA', WHICH WAS FINISHED BY HIS WIFE AFTER HIS DEATH. MCU DOVZHENKO IN WOOLEN HAT, COAT, POSES. CU METAL SCREEN DOOR OF ELEVATOR OPENS TO DOVZHEWNKO'S APARTMENT. PAN COO-KOO CLOCK AND FURNITURE, MEMORABILIA, SELF-PORTRAIT (?) ON WALL AND HIS DESK. CU CLUTTERED DESK IN COLOR. PHOTO DOVZHENKO AND WIFE YULIA. "I KEEP THINKING OF MY WIFE YULIA, FOR SOME REASON I KEEP THINKING THAT SHE DREAMS OF ME.....". ZOOM IN ON PHOTO OF YUDA. "I LOVE MY WIFE LIKE I HAVE NEVER LOVED BEFORE...".
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VARIOUS SCENES DOVZHENKO'S FUNERAL. HIS WIFE AND PEOPLE MOURNING BY HIS COFFIN. OPEN GRAVE WITH MANY FLOWERS BEING CARRIED THROUGH CROWD. SCENE OF HIS MOVIE "THE LAND", OF DEAD MAN BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHER THROUGH HANGING BRANCHES OF FRUIT TREE, AND SCENE OF SOLDIERS CARRYING DEAD
COMRADE ON STRETCHER IN MOVIE "SHCHORS", SUPER-IMPOSED ON HIS FUNERAL PROCESSION. SCENES OF FLOWERING FRUIT TREES SHOTS OF HOUSE WHERE HE WAS BORN, AND STATUE OF HIM ON LAWN. COLOR SHOTS CROWD MOURNING AT FUNERAL. OFFICIALS PLACING WREATH AT HIS MONUMENT (BUST OF DOVZHENKO ON PEDESTAL. ZOOM AWAY FLOWERING TREE. |
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MONTAGE DOVZHENKO POSING BY MOVIE CAMERA AND OTHER SHOTS AT HIS FILM SITES.
MS VARIOUS SHOTS RAIN FALLING ON FRUIT TREE AND FRUIT FALLEN TO GROUND UNDER TREE. |
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