Description: This film is an explanation in the love of the director to his generation - sixties, his time - 60 years. This time was different – joyful and sad, jubilant and sad, but the main thing in it was youth and purity. And the sense of freedom is unusual, but so desirable and necessary. That was the time of the rise of poetry and the Polytechnic, the time of the “Ilyich Outpost” and the theater “Contemporary”, the dispute between physicists and lyricists, the flight of Yuri Gagarin. But it
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Description: This film is an explanation in the love of the director to his generation - sixties, his time - 60 years. This time was different – joyful and sad, jubilant and sad, but the main thing in it was youth and purity. And the sense of freedom is unusual, but so desirable and necessary. That was the time of the rise of poetry and the Polytechnic, the time of the “Ilyich Outpost” and the theater “Contemporary”, the dispute between physicists and lyricists, the flight of Yuri Gagarin. But it was also the time of the “bulldozer exhibition”, stacked on the shelf of films and closed performances. And as a symbol of strangled freedom – the ruins of the old “Contemporary”. Hopes, dreams of happiness, everything seemed to be over. But there remains the brotherhood of the sixties, which continues to live in those who come to replace them. XX century. Time papers.
The film also starred researchers of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna M. Anikina, G. Vardenga, A. Volodko, V. Nikitin, V. Furman. Art historian E. Gagarina, physicist E. Martirosov, artists N. Andronov, B. Alimov, film directors P. Todorovsky, Y. Feit, cinematographer A. Knyazhinsky, actress Zh. Bolotova, actor V. Livanov. Members of the amateur song club of Moscow, pupils of the Suvorov Military School, soldiers of the Order of Lenin of the Leningrad Military District. The materials of the State Film Fund of the State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR, the State Teleradio of the USSR and personal archives were used.
The songs of Bulat Okudzhava “Union of Friends”, “Arbat Romance”, “Wishing to Friends”, “Sentimental March”, “Song about the Open Door”, “I met again with hope”, “Goodbye, boys”, “Forgive the infantry”, “Song of the old ballman”, “And we are the doorman ...”, “Georgian song”. The song of P. Todorovsky on the poems of G. Shpalikov "Provincial Town", the song of G. Shpalikov "Honey, since what year are you?"