Простая смерть... (по Л. Н. Толстому)

Po motivam povesti Lʹva Tolstogo "Smertʹ Ivana Ilʹicha". Mir i zhiznʹ, uvidennye glazami geroi͡a, okazyvai͡utsi͡a beskonechno ravnodushny k ego boli i stradanii͡am. No neozhidanno dli͡a sebi͡a v moment smerti on ispytyvaet oblegchenie i uspokoenie. "Nelʹzi͡a tak zhitʹ!" - golos Tolstogo so staroĭ plastinki obramli͡aet vse povestvovanie. Ėkranizat͡sii͡a znamenitoĭ povesti Tolstogo byla vypolnena Kaĭdanovskim v kachestve diplomnoĭ raboty na Vysshikh rezhisserskikh kursakh. Oburevaemyĭ chestoli͡ubivymi zamyslami pod neposredstvennym vlii͡aniem genii͡a Tarkovskogo, on byl polon idei͡ami perenosa na i͡azyk kino velikoĭ literatury. Za ėtu povestʹ Tolstogo ne bralsi͡a do Kaĭdanovskogo nikto. On zhe reshil ee s takim ėsteticheskim ėkstremizmom, vyrazivshimsi͡a v predelʹnom sledovanii tolstovskoĭ fiziologichnosti, chto dazhe vypushchennai͡a nebolʹshim tirazhom v prokat v 1988 godu kartina prakticheski ne uvidela ėkrana.

Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". The world and life seen through the eyes of the hero are infinitely indifferent to his pain and suffering. But suddenly, at the moment of death, he feels relieved and reassured. "You can't live like this!" – Tolstoy's voice from an old record frames the entire narrative. The film adaptation of Tolstoy's famous novel was made by Kaidanovsky as a thesis at the Higher Directing Courses. Driven by ambition under the direct influence of Tarkovsky's genius, he was full of ideas for translating great literature into the language of cinema. This story of Tolstoy was not taken up by anyone before Kaidanovsky. He also solved it with such aesthetic extremism, expressed in the utmost adherence to Tolstoy's physiology, that even the picture released in a small print run in 1988 practically did not see the screen.