Our Friend Maxim

Soviet documentary, historical and biographical film of 1983, directed by Irina Kalinina. In a 30-minute tape shows the selfless work of Anna Ivanovna Zelenova, the director of the Pavlovsky Palace Museum, who devoted her entire life to him, survived with him years of occupation and rebirth from the ashes.

The film tells about how on the Leningrad radio programs were created for children, about how the child perceives a fairy tale told on the radio. The film features the Honored Artist of the RSFSR, known to all Leningrad children Maria Petrova and People's Artist of the USSR Alexander Borisov.

About Ivan Selivanov - an artist, a representative of "naive art" from the Kuzbass. Director Mikhail Litvyakov met Ivan Selivanov in 1968. Since then, until the artist's death in 1988, their correspondence continued. The film uses letters, diaries, pictures of the artist, shooting different years.

The film tells about a young artist Nadya Rusheva and how much she could do for her 17 years. Unfortunately, shortly before the end of the shooting, the heroine died. In the picture, besides the drawings by Nadya Rusheva, her work on them, her monologues, you can see the Pushkin house museum on the Moika, 12 as it was before the restoration.

The rise of gold from the wreck of the cruiser Edinburgh, which was sunk during the war, was shot in 1942 by German submarines in the Kola Bay. Documentary uses the memories of Soviet officer SG Zinoviev, who was heading for London aboard the cruiser Edinburgh.

On the problem of choosing a profession by schoolchildren, in particular, eighth-graders.

About the creator of famous aircraft - aircraft designer Ilyushin.

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Ivars Seleckis, and the ballerina Natalya Makarova, among others. It also shows the “engine room” of the festival: the work of the main office and the PROKKa professional cinematographers’ club, guests being greeted and seen off. A charity evening with Natalya Makarova, a memorial service to commemorate the victims of the war and excerpts of documentary films presented at the festival are also featured.