"Almost everything disappeared. How did it happen?" a man wonders on his deathbed. Elizabeth Lazebnik’s patient, poetic and supremely controlled film sensitively addresses the terrible thought that our pasts, our accomplishments, our families, and friends can be effaced by encroaching sickness and impending death.
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One of the most popular questions for comedians: how do you write the material? None of them can give a simple and understandable answer to this question, because no one knows it. This film is an attempt to follow how a stand-up concert is created.
The project is dedicated to the dramatic vicissitudes of the great composer's life, it is an attempt to understand and comprehend Rachmaninov's musical universe. And it is also a story about how the events of the early 20th century in Russia and in the world influenced the composer's life and were reflected in his creative legacy.
