Parfenov, "Eye of God"
 

May 31, the day of the century Fine Arts Museum named after Pushkin,
on the "First" will show a two-part film by Leonid Parfenov, "Eye
God ", dedicated to the history of the famous brainchild of Ivan Tsvetaeva. About
how to not only tell the fascinating historical subjects, but also
update them accessible to modern television facilities,
Parfenov told "Izvestia".
- Today, every TV product is fashionable
the word "project". What genre of your project?
- "Eye of God" - is dokudrama, documentary films, in which
Key points of the story live in the reconstructions of game, though
in real time. For example, Henri Matisse, the first time
Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin brings to Pablo Picasso and the Russian merchant
first sees a cubic art. Long plagued by impressions
Shchukin decides that it will still be buying - since then we have the most
world's largest collection of this period. Or exhibition of works of
as Picasso, which struck in 1956, Ilya Ehrenburg. Gathered
a huge crowd, the opening was delayed, the people pressed forward. Ehrenburg
addressed the crowd: "We were waiting for this show 25 years, wait another 25
minutes. " All laughed with relief, the scandal did not happen.
- That is, this movie is primarily about people, not about the museum?
- Any story - is people. The emergence of the Pushkin Museum - is
History of the priest's son, Ivan Tsvetaeva of Vladimir province. He
said: "The poor we are a country! We do not have their antiquity. " And to
Ivanov next generation of the villages knew that we, too, the Europeans,
assembled a unique collection of casts of ancient Athens to the
Florentine Renaissance. And the sons of merchants, Ivan Morozov and
Sergei Shchukin were the first judges of the avant-garde - from which we
magnificent collection of Gauguin, Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso. In Paris,
For example, many dark-green cast-iron fountains. In 1870 they
has placed throughout the city English baronet, Richard Wallace. And one
this is before the hut, where he lived Picasso. That is because the sample
Merchants really taste - a solid material, color, pleasant
eye, beautiful female figures. It's a functional thing came up,
drank, admired, went further. And what kind of art created by Picasso?
He knew very well because Sergei Shchukin, that these pictures anywhere it is not
attach, but such a thorn, they sank into his soul, that first one
bought - "Lady with a Fan," and then another 50.
- You have attempted to look at the picture through the eyes of Shchukin -
He is, in fact, the pioneer of modern art.
- This is a look first and foremost directors film Sergei and Ivan Nurmamedov
Skvortsov. Dokudrama - a genre in which the "author and leading" and in general
Journalists have editors - the role of a smaller than usual. Television -
these are images, not talking heads.
- You have starred prominent actors. Oleg Tabakov played by Ivan
Tsvetaeva, Igor Kvasha - Ilya Ehrenburg, Yevgeny Mironov -
Nicholas II. It was difficult to persuade them?
- For a more artists to participate in the reconstructed scene
Documentary film - not the main job. But all responded with
pleasure, knowing that the theme of the good.
- There are a few unexpected acting appointments.
Peter plays the young Picasso's available, and Picasso in 1940-1960-s -
Vladimir Pozner. As it is something you "bought"?
- There is a huge photo and video archive of postwar Picasso -
such a strong old man with a shaved head and wearing shorts inspired malyuet
"Peace Dove" by which, incidentally, managed to revive it
"Bourgeois anti-national, alien formalist art."
Several years ago I saw Vladimir on the beach
UAE - it turns out, it is possible to remove the frame with a bare
torso. What are you laughing at? It is rare for Russian
broadcasters. And when the idea of ​​this film, I imagined how
Picasso may be Posner in shorts. In addition, the French have it -
first native language.
- Your words: "The phenomenon - is that, first passed as the current
event, and then became part of the general consciousness and experience. " With this
in terms of what the phenomena in the history of the museum you seem to be
most important?
- They are many. The way Ivan Tsvetaeva was a collection. How do
for example, was designed by Italian court - from the time of Tsvetaeva
Nothing here has changed. All the rooms - in their countries and epochs, and then
kind of a team of all time. Collage has arisen because Tsvetayev
believed that "we must act big and solid objects."
This is one time you will see with what can not be confused. How Morozov bought for 16
thousand francs, "Girl on the ball" - he did a day could buy paintings on
greater amount than the Russian Museum bought a new painting for the year. A
exhibition of gifts to Stalin in the Pushkin Museum? It seemed as if it will be
always. A "visit" Mona Lisa "? Watch her people were, as in the mausoleum. For
bulletproof glass - it is one and infinite moving
the crowd ... The queues at the Pushkin Museum - the only Soviet queue
which we filmed newsreels. The museum is not as important in itself. A
how he came into people's lives and changed it.

It.

Advertising film just shameful ! <! - ~ 4 ~ -> To understand from it that will devote a series of Shchukin and Morozov , simply impossible. " Brezhnev " show is not forgotten in the advertising, but the collectors - so casually .

Who thinks what about the movie ? In my opinion , the material collected is very interesting, but the form of supply leaves much to be desired ( mildly put it mildly ).

I liked the idea itself .
And the form of presentation - just in the format of television, in my opinion, " dokudrama ": easy, fast enough , and information .
It looked an actor in the role of Vladimir Zaitsev S. Shchukin, did not expect such similarities and vernal , and I saw one , internal to the artist with the already established role in the movie villain - a Russian merchant was more advanced in Western tastes and trends than do Western people.
And I must admit , about the refusal of matissovskih panels and artist of a telegram from the station w /e is on the way home and did not know , I think.
Not a useful film, with good iformatsionoy sostovlyaet - a clear count of the numbers of investment Moroova I. and S. Shchukin , for example, comparison of their meetings and gatherings to Alexander I. Tsvetaeva Museum , and so forth .
On the topic of the day , as they say.
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Voice of God
 

Excellent film and the presentation of available spectator not reduced in the "museum business." Ozhidayu.chto second series will be even more interesting-nasuscheney,

I liked the movie.
For a simple man in the street so all the beautiful and informative.

The second series, I expect to be sad - the sale by the Soviet government masterpieces of painting in the West, Khrushchev, nonconformists, emigration, Brezhnev ...

Like the first series, looking forward to the second.

Ah, my Second Series of his failure is very upset.

The film should look only at the first part and the second one does not need to look at.

Does anyone know who played the role of president of the Academy of Arts by Alexander Gerasimov ?

In my opinion, the best role from the point of pure acting .

What to do the film, before the second series, with which I began , then too much " husk ", just about the scoop, not about the museum at all.

On the other hand showed no archival photos of 1930s that the museum has , Alexey Petukhov lecturing in my facebook , some of them.

Could also take some short little interview with the older generation of contemporary artists who went to the 1930 children to watch the Shchukin and Morozov collections .

At the same Viktor Ivanov.
And the " severe style " - is particularly the influence of those visits as a child in those collections.