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00:01:55Next, a special report by Anastasia Ovsyuk, about the work of the front-line Creative
00:01:59Brigade. In the special operation zone,
00:02:24there is no stage, no spotlights, no curtain, only
00:02:28music. And you and I, we are
00:02:31one, let's turn on our
00:02:35heater, warm our feet in a dance with you. Every day, artists
00:02:39arrive at a new unit, unpack equipment, tune instruments,
00:02:43short breaks to regain strength, back to
00:02:46battle. We warmed our cheeks in winter,
00:02:49waited for a warm spring, in summer we counted
00:02:52stars, someone thanks after the performance,
00:02:56someone just silently shakes hands.
00:03:00all circus, the front-line creative brigade was gathered from performers,
00:03:04actors of spoken genre,
00:03:09over the country, each with their own school, their own professional
00:03:12experience, in 2022 they
00:03:15were just about to become
00:03:17one team,
00:03:25the artists go through the wards, and then organize a general concert in
00:03:28the corridors.
00:04:00they even allowed some mothers and wives to be right next to
00:04:03the bed, bed by bed, I really
00:04:06got lost, how to start, how you won't start, to
00:04:09greet you, yes, how are you, when you stand on the training ground, when you see burning eyes
00:04:13in the dugout, and here the guys are lying and don't know and are afraid,
00:04:16friends, our front-line creative brigade is already in its fourth
00:04:20year of touring the fronts of the special operation, the concert is hosted by
00:04:23Evgeny Pavlov, a professional actor, served in the Moscow theater
00:04:27Sovremennik, starred in TV series, here he had to leave
00:04:30big roles, now his stage is
00:04:33the training ground, the hospital, the dugout, almost every
00:04:36concert he starts the same way, with a smile and
00:04:40kind words. Well, yes, we will return with victory, well,
00:04:43this must be instilled in our guys, we must talk about
00:04:46this, mother is waiting at home, believes, wife is waiting at home, children are waiting at home,
00:04:50a person clings to this, to this
00:04:53love. Evgeny is sure that after the war new poems,
00:04:57plays, performances will appear, as it was during the years of the great.
00:05:43he will have bright, burning eyes, and if
00:05:46a soldier is not interested, you won't make him show
00:05:49emotions, he has combat work, he came to
00:05:52the task, he came to a warm club, he came to a warm
00:05:56dugout, the first trips were to the Kherson region, there the program
00:05:59was actually created from scratch for specific viewers and completely
00:06:03new conditions, the repertoire is constantly changing, some numbers
00:06:06appear, others disappear, if he is not
00:06:09interested, then he gradually begins to... write
00:06:12fall asleep, eyes close,
00:06:15eyelids become heavy, and we lose
00:06:18the audience. Today, the front-line creative brigade of the Song and
00:06:22Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Military District is one whole. Arguments,
00:06:25of course, happen, no creative team can do without them, but
00:06:29the main thing here is that they have learned to listen to each other, everyone
00:06:32understands that on stage he is working not just for
00:06:35himself.
00:06:38Don't be afraid of me, I won't touch
00:06:41you. Don't worry, and
00:06:45even familiar songs here at the front sound different,
00:06:49especially when the artists face soldiers who have just returned from the front
00:06:52line, they gave, as we believe, 100%, right
00:06:56up to the last, as they say, up to the last drop of blood, they gave everything,
00:07:00in the faces of the guys, well, as if there was emptiness,
00:07:03that is, as if you were hitting a wall, like peas against a
00:07:07wall, but when the concert ended, the guys came up, shook
00:07:11hands, said, guys, thank you, everything was great, everything was
00:07:14wonderful, don't pay attention, we are just flying a bit more,
00:07:17they hugged, some cried, until February 22, Viktor
00:07:21Dolzhenko lived a completely different life, he was born in a small village
00:07:25of Krasnodar Krai, worked in the district culture house, organized
00:07:28holidays, weddings, corporate events, on September 19 he held
00:07:32a banquet, and 3 days later he was at the gathering
00:07:35point, when I got mobilized, the first thought that crossed my mind was, do they sing,
00:07:38do they make people happy or don't they make them happy? holidays.
00:07:42At the front, Viktor served as a machine gunner, pulled out the wounded,
00:07:46after a concussion delivered food and
00:07:49ammunition to the front line. Lyuboradtsy,
00:07:51lyubo, lyubo,
00:07:54bratsy,
00:07:58ours do not
00:08:00have to,
00:08:04and he also started writing poems and songs, so he tried to express
00:08:07his accumulated feelings, he dedicated them to his division and the people
00:08:11with whom he fought. Kherson, when a person
00:08:14who was in battle looks at you, and you sing something military-patriotic
00:08:18for him, he looks at you and completely
00:08:22scans you, you have no chance to lie, to
00:08:25deceive somewhere. In November of the twenty-fifth Viktor's father signed a contract and
00:08:28went to the front as a volunteer. A few weeks later he
00:08:32died. Now at concerts Viktor, together with a comrade-in-arms,
00:08:35performs the song, I'm going to my dad. For him, this is not just
00:08:38a number in the program, this is a personal story that he has to
00:08:42relive anew, I
00:08:45will take off my shoes from the pile
00:08:49of plastic, across the field along
00:08:52the path, I will enter my native
00:08:56home, at the native
00:08:58doorstep, I will understand, about
00:09:01him alive, healthy, thank
00:09:05God, God grant him 100 years,
00:09:08alive, healthy, thank God,
00:09:15Why did he go to war? Well, he went with
00:09:17the words: I cannot watch young guys die?
00:09:34How old was Dad? 54?
00:09:36we need a small
00:09:45timeout,
00:09:46the artist admits he has to put his pain
00:09:50on stage aside, because the task is to give the audience
00:09:53emotion, to support him and do his job. When
00:09:57I was already serving, he often wrote to me, for the last
00:10:01year, I guess, that I cannot sit idle, I cannot sit,
00:10:04my son is at war, I am sitting behind your back, I
00:10:08am proud of him, because he is one
00:10:11of, probably, few people who took
00:10:15such a decision, it is difficult, it
00:10:19is to find your destiny, your life, to give it
00:10:22for the fatherland. My hero,
00:10:26I'm sure he was very
00:10:29proud of you,
00:10:30yes,
00:10:34of course, it's difficult, but
00:10:37an artist, an artist cannot show his inner pain, he
00:10:41must somehow affect the inner
00:10:44spiritual world of a person, and his pains, his problems,
00:10:47his some worries, sometimes you need to set aside
00:10:51and fulfill the task that is currently at hand.
00:11:55feed on this, an artist
00:11:58is not that simple,
00:12:01you have problems, you have something that hurts, you
00:12:05have family problems, but when you go on stage, the audience should not
00:12:09know this and should not notice it, this is exactly what the
00:12:12director says, an artist lives by this,
00:12:15army
00:12:17break,
00:12:25Bigbaev is used to big theatrical stages, he served in different theaters, but
00:12:28he especially cherishes the dramatic Komsomolsk-on-Amur, now his
00:12:32stage can be just a few square meters, sometimes
00:12:36a small dugout, where you have to literally bend over under
00:12:39the ceiling. They became
00:12:42recognizable, and here we are, some from
00:12:46Rostov, some from
00:12:47Kolyma,
00:12:52in front of them are soldiers of the assault unit, some
00:12:55just returned from a mission, some will go back to the front line
00:12:59in a few hours, if the audience gives him energy, then he
00:13:03begins to give it back like a diffuser, that is,
00:13:07he keeps nothing for himself, but we are aware
00:13:10that, well, the guys didn't come from
00:13:14the park, not from a walk, everyone says, "let's
00:13:18recharge the guys," we came to these, recharged them, to these recharged them, to these
00:13:21recharged them, who will recharge us? Where
00:13:25will we get energy? It's especially hard to perform
00:13:29in front of those who are just about to go on their first
00:13:32assault, and where do you get your energy from? Where do
00:13:35I get it from? Well, of course
00:13:37I
00:13:41know that my loved ones remember
00:13:44me, I look at
00:13:47a photograph of my family and I
00:13:51kind of gain strength and I kind of...
00:13:55exhale and go to work. A few
00:13:58months later, Ivan accidentally saw a video from the front line online.
00:14:01A severely wounded soldier, almost unconscious from
00:14:04blood loss. During the evacuation, he reads his
00:14:07own poem to a comrade. Ivan recognized the voice. This
00:14:11was the same person he met after
00:14:14the concert. No, no, yes, wolf, from 11 o'clock it doesn't bring. Come on,
00:14:17brother, read poems, this poem was written by Asan.
00:14:21I want it to be covered, it
00:14:24remained for centuries and
00:14:28that the guys heard it, it's called
00:14:31"We won't die", written by
00:14:32Alexei Alexeevich,
00:14:36we won't die, because we never die, the righteous
00:14:40fire in our hearts, we will fan it into a flame, throw those
00:14:43enemies into it, where your money is, there are our feats, victories, the soldier
00:14:47was saved, later the artists followed his recovery and
00:14:50worried about him with all their hearts, handsome, I'll
00:14:53get you out. Don't lose consciousness, talk, okay, we'll all go
00:14:57home, happy journey, I'm calling home, hi, son, how
00:15:01are you doing, everything is fine, everything is calm, don't
00:15:05be scared, mom, but there are also difficult moments, returning to
00:15:08a familiar unit, artists sometimes see completely different
00:15:12faces, fewer and fewer familiar ones, someone got
00:15:15wounded, someone was transferred, someone didn't
00:15:17come back, we look
00:15:21carefully, hey, are you alive, hey,
00:15:25okay, really, okay, quiet, quiet,
00:15:27look,
00:15:32Ivan more often chooses poems about life, home, feelings,
00:15:36about what remains beyond...
00:16:07which simply
00:16:08make people laugh
00:16:13contact,
00:16:16in addition to concerts, artists train at the
00:16:19training ground,
00:16:28storm trenches, hone tactical medicine skills,
00:16:31because everyone here, first and foremost, remains
00:16:35a serviceman.
00:16:47for a long time now, the vocal cords are
00:16:50tempered, probably like
00:16:52steel, so in terms of
00:16:55strength,
00:16:58nothing complicated,
00:17:02emotionally much harder,
00:17:04because every concert...
00:17:09after a performance, you need time to recover, but most often
00:17:13there isn't any, one rehearsal follows another, one concert follows the next,
00:17:31in February 2022, the philharmonic quickly gathered the team, two
00:17:35volunteers were needed for the front, so that no one felt
00:17:39offended, they took a simple
00:17:41Kubanka hat, tore up pieces of paper,
00:17:45put two pluses, threw them in, well, I drew
00:17:49a plus, that's how I ended up in combat,
00:17:52war is not exactly rainbows
00:17:55and unicorns, it's scary, it's always painful,
00:17:59but it means it
00:18:01has to be, that is, we stand for our land, we
00:18:05stood for our land and we will stand for our land. He is from
00:18:08Shakhtyorsk, lived in Donetsk for many years, studied in Lugansk, in the second year
00:18:12of the special operation, the commander suggested he audition for a military
00:18:15ensemble. Yaroslav then doubted for a long time whether
00:18:19a simple guy from Donetsk could join the team, but he
00:18:22risked it. Even no matter how tired they were,
00:18:25no matter what tasks they faced,
00:18:29no matter where they had to move next, we always
00:18:32try to inspire them, and we
00:18:35still break through that wall in the end. We break through it,
00:18:39someone sheds a tear, someone starts clapping, someone smiles, so
00:18:43that's what our work is for. Ilya
00:18:46Kolesnikov remembers the spring of 2022 particularly well, no one knew then how
00:18:50long this journey would be. 15 artists, ballet
00:18:53couples, vocalists, a violinist and a guitarist, instead
00:18:56of a concert hall - a dugout, instead of wings -
00:18:59a forest belt. New artists are selected very
00:19:02carefully. Today, when someone comes to me, I tell
00:19:06them the whole truth. When someone comes, I even try to scare them
00:19:09more than it actually is, I say, it's hell, we don't get out of the training grounds,
00:19:13we constantly go to war,
00:19:16and, well, of course, that's not the case, but I want to see how a person reacts in
00:19:20a stressful situation, if a person says, yes, I'm ready, yes, good, where's the training ground,
00:19:24please, where to go in a truck to a concert, yes, please, where to perform in the cold,
00:19:27I love it so much, it's my joy, then he's our kind of person,
00:19:31it means he'll stick around here, and if I'm all in a tailcoat, I'm
00:19:35here at the philharmonic, with the choir, well, no... excuse me, I need
00:19:38creamer here, here, here, please, put some water
00:19:41for me here, well, go find water somewhere else,
00:19:44that is, these are the nuances, this
00:19:47is work. One day Ilya Kolesnikov found an old
00:19:51poster, a concert of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Military
00:19:54District, date April 22, forty
00:19:57second year, the same month, only 80
00:20:01years ago, a different war, a different
00:20:04generation, but still the same music, still the same task,
00:20:07to support those who are at the front. Folk song
00:20:11is replaced by academic vocals, modern music by
00:20:14classics, between them sound humorous numbers and
00:20:18poems that touch the soul.
00:20:19стихи.
00:20:23With all my heart and soul I love
00:20:26you, from the western
00:20:29borders,
00:20:32to the east, your land is famous for
00:20:35heroes.
00:20:38My homeland,
00:20:39my
00:20:43homeland, my
00:20:46Russia, with all my heart and soul. I
00:20:50love you, from
00:20:52the western borders and to
00:20:55the east your land is famous for
00:20:58heroes, second concert of the day,
00:21:02the artists once again take the improvised stage with the same
00:21:05energy, as if it's their first performance, in that
00:21:08cruel battle,
00:21:11he stood till the end,
00:21:15for his wife, for his family,
00:21:19and for freedom.
00:22:02Alexander himself studied at a music school, played the trumpet in orchestras,
00:22:05and then for the first time heard a real operatic voice
00:22:09and, as he recalls, literally felt goosebumps all over
00:22:12his body, that is, the subject of voice training appeared, there was
00:22:16an excellent teacher, Mikhail Semyonovich, Bogomolny.
00:22:21Such an extravagant young man, and
00:22:25he kind of showed how an operatic voice sounds, he
00:22:28is a baritone, he has such lush
00:22:31curls, he just opens his mouth and an
00:22:35operatic baritone sounds from him, this was just such a colossal
00:22:38impression for me, goosebumps all over my body, down to the bones, I fell in love with
00:22:42singing, at the beginning of the brigade's work, everyone demonstrated what
00:22:45they did best in peaceful life, today more and more often
00:22:49artists perform together, the most important plus
00:22:52is that we cheer the guys up, we cheer them up
00:22:55very much, we raise their spirits,
00:22:59really, as they say, it's already a hackneyed phrase, you could say,
00:23:02"combat spirit," yes, but this combat spirit is made up of
00:23:06many factors, sometime in summer at
00:23:09dawn I looked into the neighbor's
00:23:13garden, there a dark-skinned girl,
00:23:15a Moldovan girl was picking
00:23:18grapes.
00:23:29Kirill Ivanilov first appeared on stage at 5 years old, his mother
00:23:33is the director of the rural house of culture, his father is an accordionist, everyone
00:23:36in the family sang, music was part of his life since
00:23:40childhood. I remember the first song we sang in kindergarten, it was something about my Russia having blue eyes,
00:23:43and a blonde braid, it all started,
00:23:47concerts. sometimes after a performance, it's hard for
00:24:34comrades to even hit the next note, so strongly
00:24:38does the artist experience what is happening, but
00:24:40it cannot be otherwise, when you
00:24:43perform some piece, you must
00:24:46understand its meaning yourself? In what sense? In general, the
00:24:50song and convey this state,
00:24:53it's either some tension, or vice versa, and if you don't feel
00:24:57it yourself, then the people who are watching you won't feel it, we are all
00:25:01guys,
00:25:03yes, they are all my, this is my family, we have been together for almost 4 years,
00:25:06we recharge each other, if there are two or three
00:25:10concerts a day, you have to give your all at the first concert, you also need to get energy
00:25:14from somewhere for the next concert, so on the road while
00:25:17we are driving, we recharge each other. The program
00:25:20increasingly features poems by contemporary authors, including those who were
00:25:24on the front lines themselves. One of the strongest is "Call Signs" by Mikhail
00:25:27Dyakonov, a poem about fallen
00:25:30comrades. We did not manage to get to know them in
00:25:34battle, but these
00:25:37five became
00:25:38our kin.
00:25:41May God accept them into his holy
00:25:44host. But we only know
00:25:48their call signs, and the elder
00:25:51handed him a note,
00:25:55the old priest came down from the
00:25:58pulpit and silently unfolded
00:26:01that note. He said:
00:26:05I will not violate the
00:26:08canon here, in history there are
00:26:11many saints, whose names are
00:26:14forgotten by generations, but
00:26:17we remember their nicknames
00:26:20through the ages, which are essentially the
00:26:24same call signs, I will perform, of course, the
00:26:26rite, such times have come
00:26:30again. Who stood against demons
00:26:34in a row. Our Lord knows
00:26:37all their names. In
00:26:404 years, the front-line creative brigade traveled thousands
00:26:44of kilometers and gave hundreds of concerts. History
00:26:47seemed to repeat itself. Once upon a time, artists also went where
00:26:50battles were fought, performed in dugouts, at the front, in
00:26:54hospitals, sang for those who especially needed
00:26:57support. Today the task remains the same,
00:27:01to be with the soldiers.
00:27:52there's a plan, just awesome, awesome,
00:27:55best movie, I think, and generally such an impression, as if you really
00:27:59fell into a fairy tale, you are all heroes of Russian fairy tales. I liked
00:28:03the frog, I liked the fog with
00:28:06the dragon, Alyonushka is cool,
00:28:09hello, good fellow, Resa Masha, I am not
00:28:13small, small, I am not
00:28:16small, oh, cool, milk
00:28:19river, stove and
00:28:22apple tree, you had a mosquito sitting there, it
00:28:25saved the universe, this
00:28:29is a multiverse, this is cool,
00:28:33just a cool movie from the heart, well, it's
00:28:36amazing, you can't even describe it with words, you just have to
00:28:39see it, let's get to business, no
00:28:42time, how I got into a fairy tale, interesting,
00:28:45right, well, you'll see for yourselves, an incredible
00:28:48premiere about Russian superheroes, how Ivan got into a fairy tale.