The Year of Russian Cinema-2016: The exhibition “Pushkin and his heroes on the cinema screen” in Saint-Petersburg

March 17, 2016 in the Western building of the G. R. Derzhavin Museum-Estate (Saint-Petersburg) is opened the new exhibition “Pushkin and his heroes on the cinema screen”.

In the Year of Russian cinema the Pushkin National Museum features rare, including previously not exhibited materials from their collections: costumes, photographs, bills, posters, books, autographs, tickets, photo, scripts.

A special place in the exhibition is unique drawings by filmmaker, theorist of cinema, writer Sergei Eisenstein to unfulfilled cinema performance “Poet's Love”, conceived in 1940. The exhibition is organically complemented by modern media: on touch tables, you can see close-up photos from the shooting, shots and the most expressive episodes of films and materials of unfulfilled plan by S. Eisenstein.   

Screen adaptation of A. S. Pushkin began with the first steps of the national cinema. Today, with the help of multimedia creators of exhibitions provide an opportunity to get acquainted with films that entered the history of Russian cinema. The electronic form contains materials about the life and work of Alexander Pushkin on the film adaptations of his works, starting from 1909 and ending our time.

A special place is given to films created with the participation of the Pushkin National Museum. This film is about the poet's great-grandfather A. P Hannibal (“Strange Life of Hannibal”), and the descendants of Pushkin (“Masha, Sasha, Grisha, Natasha”, “God help you, friends”, “My great-grandfather – Pushkin”, “How Pushkin and Gogol became friends”), as well as about the history of the Imperial Lyceum and the fate of its graduates - friends of the poet (“When Lyceum appeared”, “Lyceum After Lyceum”), unique exhibits of Pushkin museum (“Nashchyokin house”).

The exhibition is open till January 11, 2017.