Sergey Oskolkov

A film about peace, love and war. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Russia. The film takes place at the end of the summer of 1917, when Russia and the whole world were at a crossroads between two eras. None of the people could even imagine how much his life would change in the very near future. In a strange way, the atmosphere of the film echoes our current reality and what is happening in Russia today. According to the form of visualization, the film belongs to experimental mockumentary cinema. To give greater authenticity to what is happening on the screen, the shooting was carried out on black-and-white negatives of 16 and 35 mm, hand-operated cameras were used and the material was developed in manual spiral tanks. The documentary chronicle of the Kolchak army of 1919 and the White army in the Far East of 1922 is embedded in the finale of the film.

The International Foundation for the Support of the Arts "Sergey Oskolkov and his Friends" presents "DIALOGUES AT THE FACTORY" The 3rd meeting. Conversation with the President of the Foundation, composer and pianist, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor Sergey Oskolkov Sergei Oskolkov, a pianist and composer, President of the International Foundation for the Support of the Arts named after him, talks about the fate of his family, about those with whom he studied and worked with. The history of the Oskolkov family is intertwined with the history of Russia. Brilliant names and undeservedly forgotten heroes of the Resistance in Germany during World War II, childhood memories of villages near Donetsk and the first impressions of a young man. who entered the Leningrad Conservatory, difficulties in joining the Union of Composers and work at the Department of Sound Engineering of St. Petersburg State University.

The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The suites were created on the basis of music for the film "Time, Forward!" By Mikhail Schweitzer (based on the novel of the same name by Valentin Kataev, shot in 1965, released in 1966), dedicated to the construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. From the first suite, the most famous part is "Time, forward!". Subsequently, it was used in a number of films, in television and radio programs, documentary films about the first five-year plans, industrialization, and post-war reconstruction. Sergei Oskolkov composed his suite: "Time, back!" The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the revolution in Russia.