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The Nagornaya Gallery exhibition hall presents the Screen Truth About the War exhibition on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War with the participation of the Russian Archive of Literature and Art, the Mosfilm film concern, the State Central Museum of Cinema, the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents and the film club Dialogue. doc”

The exhibition “Screen truth about the war” is an attempt to trace how a fact is translated into an image, and manuscripts and documents in feature films are transformed into screen truth. The project is based on the retrospective of the film "The Living and the Dead" by Alexander Stolper based on the novel of the same name by Konstantin Simonov, where the writer presented unique material from the point of view of the true reproduction of the war from his front notebooks, later entitled "Different days of the war." These are facts and events personally drawn by K. Simonov as an eyewitness, a war correspondent on the fronts from the Barents to the Black Sea.

The exhibition presents front-line notebooks of 1941 by K. M. Simonov, his personal belongings, drafts of the novel "Alive and Dead", a photo chronicle that captures the nature of the activities of military journalists.

Another storyline of the exhibition is represented by the “(behind) the curtain” of the creation of the film “Alive and Dead” by A. B. Stolper, where the author’s thought, which is consistently embodied, emphasizes the emotional “weightiness” of the visual evidence of the on-screen document into a historical argument through literary and directorial scripts, correspondence A Stolper and K. Simonov, assembly sheets, albums of photo tests, posters

Another storyline of the exhibition is represented by the “(behind) the curtain” of the creation of the film “Alive and Dead” by A. B. Stolper, where the author’s thought, which is consistently embodied, emphasizes the emotional “weightiness” of the visual evidence of the on-screen document into a historical argument through literary and directorial scripts, correspondence A Stolper and K. Simonov, montage sheets, photo album albums, film posters from the collections of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art; photographs of the working moments of the film “Alive and Dead” from the archive of the Mosfilm Film Concern, sketches of scenery by Stalen Volkov from the funds of the State Central Museum of Cinema, as well as sketches of costumes by Ganna Ganevskaya and photo chronicle from the personal archives of the filming process participants.

An important component of an authentic interpretation of the transformation of fact into on-screen truth is the video recordings with Konstantin Simonov and Anatoly Papanov from the funds of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, as well as personal testimonies of Alexei Simonov and the crew of the film Living and Dead - veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War - Nikolai Olonovsky, Irina Mansurova, Ganna Ganevskaya.

“… “Living and the Dead” is a newsreel, and the second quality of this picture is the lyrical color of the film. This is a war film with lyrical intonation. This is a picture of love. Although there is essentially no love there… Not to mention the fact that, by virtue of the name, it is the truth about the war… I might have thought whether to take up this work if it were not for this name. But when it was called a cinematic event in memory of the Great Victory, the obligations of the participants tripled from one name, which we are obliged to support and be on top of the task ” (Ganna Ganevskaya)

The project includes educational activities, public discussions and excursions:

November 18, 2015 at 18.00 Master class for children “Heroes in the cinema. Puppet animation”5+

November 22, 2015 at 11.00 Meeting with the director Vadim Kleschev “How the TV show is born” 12+

November 25, 2015 at 19.00 Lecture by Eugene Margolit - film critic, film critic, historian, recognized expert on Soviet cinema. “The enemy is like a double. The image of a German in domestic cinema ”16+

Mini-retrospective of the films “HOLLYWOOD WAR. RUSSIAN FRONT IN AMERICAN FILMS OF THE 1940S”12+

November 15, 3 p.m., 6 p.m. Screening of the film "NORTH STAR" (1943, USA, dir. L. Milestone, starring: D. Andrews, W. Houston, E. von Stroheim, E. Baxter)

November 27, 11.00, 18.00 Screening of the film “MISSION TO MOSCOW” (1943, dir. M. Curtis, cast: W. Houston, E. Harding, E. Parker)

December 13, 11.00, 15.00, 18.00 Screening of the film “Song of Russia” (1944, dir. G. Ratov, starring: R. Taylor, S. Peters, M. Chekhov, R. Benchley)

December 3, 2015 at 11.30 Special film screening for schoolchildren. The film “Go and See” (Elem Klimov) 13+

ORGANIZERS:

The State Central Museum of Cinema is one of the young Russian museums. It was founded in March 1989 on the basis of the reorganized Museum Department of the All-Union Film Propaganda Bureau. From the moment of its opening to November 2005, the Cinema Museum was located in the Cinema Center on Krasnaya Presnya, where stock collections were created reflecting the Russian cinema culture throughout the history of its development, regular screenings of masterpieces of world cinema were held. Since the end of 2005, the stock vaults of the Cinema Museum have been located on the territory of the Mosfilm film concern, and cinema screenings and other museum events are held at various venues in Moscow. Since October 2014, the Central House of Cinema has become one of the official sites of the Museum of Cinema. ) http://www.museikino.ru )

Mosfilm Cinema Concern is the leading Russian film industry enterprise, which produces almost all of its domestic film, television and video products. The production capacity of the studio is more than a hundred paintings per year. Mosfilm produces, distributes and sells film, television and video production, as well as provides services throughout the entire film production cycle, from the literary script to the finished film copy. http://www.mosfilm.ru/

The Russian State Archive of Literature and Art - “Archive of Muses” (RGALI) - is the largest repository of Russia, which contains the richest materials on the history of Russian literature, music, theater, cinema, visual arts, architecture. It was founded in 1941, partly on the basis of the collection of the State Literary Museum. The archive contains funds of central government bodies in the field of culture, theaters, film studios, specialized educational institutions, publishers, public organizations; personal foundations of writers, critics, artists, composers, theater and film figures, document collections. http://www.rgali.ru

The Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents (RGAKFD) - was founded in 1926. By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 275 dated April 2, 1997, the RGAKFD was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Cultural Heritage Sites of the Peoples of the Russian Federation. http://www.rgakfd.ru

The Documentary Film Club “Dialog.doc" is a club for documentary fans who holds creative meetings with directors on a weekly basis. The club’s task is to create a lively dialogue between you (the audience) and the director / author, as well as the film crew and other specially invited guests. you, what is a documentary film, how it is shot, how they approach the choice of themes, heroes, stories. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1418317495053969/

Gallery "Nagornaya" began its work in 1978. This is the first state gallery in Moscow. Initially, the gallery showed mainly academic painting (socialist realism, critical realism, “harsh style”, “left” MOSH), but over the years the focus has shifted towards modern digital technologies, multimedia, installations, photography. The gallery carries out many projects in collaboration with the largest Moscow and regional museums, cultural foundations, creative unions, art universities, cultural centers at embassies of different countries, as well as the heirs of artists and collectors ) www.galereya-nagornaya.ru )

The Moscow Exhibition Halls Association is a new project of the Moscow Department of Culture dedicated to the decentralization of culture and the modernization of the activities of cultural organizations. The association includes 18 exhibition halls located in 10 districts of Moscow. The projects and programs of the Association are designed to create a special cultural environment of the city with wide opportunities for professional and amateur creativity ) www.vzmoscow.ru )