The students Yoshkata and Petar share rooms and wartime privations in a poor man's street. Over a glass of vine, Yoshkata often talks about the stage life of genuine beauty. The student is unaware of the passion with which Vaska, the barmaid at the local pub, burns for him. Petar is a member of an antifascist combat unit. The pupil Katya loves him. Petar carries out a sabotage action and comes home wounded. Yoshkata manages to deceive the Germans who rush into their flat that they have been drinking and playing cards throughout the evening. He saves his friend. However, the secret agent notices the doctor's visits. When the police arrive to arrest Petar, Yoshkata tries to resist them and the agent shoots him dead. Petar goes underground. On the day of the liberation, all the residents of the poor man's street celebrate, and Katya and Petar happily reunited. Vaska is there, too, a baby in her arms, the fruit of her love with Yoshkata...

☆Kosta Tsonev  ☆Valentin Rusetzki   ☆Nikolina Genova   ☆Nadezhda Vakavchieva  ☆Lili Eneva   ☆Dimitar Peshev   ☆Naum Shopov   ☆Stefan Petrov

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KOVALENKO IVAN LEONTYEVICH (1919 - 2002) - Soviet Ukrainian Artist, graphic artist, poster artist, Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Honorary Cinematographer of Russia.

Born in the Poltava region, in a peasant family. Graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art School in memory of 1905. 1939-1945. served in the Soviet Army. I met the war in Minsk. He fought on the Belorussian front, near Moscow and Leningrad.

In 1941, Sergeant Ivan Kovalenko trained signalmen at the headquarters of Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal personally awarded Ivan Leontyevich a personalized watch. Since 1956, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR..

Collection of movie posters 50-80. works by Ivan Leontyevich Kovalenko are in the Florida Museum of Cinematography, USA. Honorary Filmmaker of Russia. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, medals: "For military services", "For the defense of Moscow", "For the capture of Koenigsberg", jubilee.

In 1945, Ivan Leontyevich moved to Moscow. Having not received a professional art education, he masters the art of an artist on his own, and begins to work in the field of film advertising in "Reklamfilm" and in the cinema "October". He created a large number of movie posters of the 1950s-1980s. - for the films "Wounded", "The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta", "Train Out of Schedule", etc. For some time he taught at advanced training courses for film poster artists. Since 1956 I.L. Kovalenko becomes a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

He was awarded the title of "Honorary Cinematographer of Russia". He is the founder and permanent leader of the only film poster school in the country. There are works in Moscow - in the Russian State Library and the Museum of Cinema, in the Museum of Cinematography of the United States (Florida), in the collection of the White House administration (Washington), they are also in the collection of our gallery.

The favorite pictorial theme of Ivan Leontyevich throughout his entire work was the theme of man's coming - before life, before death, before eternity. His paintings make one think about the future life, and about the life of the past, about a brief moment in the present. The artist is distinguished by his mastery of the drawing technique. The color always emphasizes the mood and idea of ​​the piece. Bold compositions, vivid images, a constant search for new solutions, an appeal to the archetypes of consciousness (the image of the Motherland: a church, a girl in a field, a rowan branch) distinguish Kovalenko from his contemporaries, realist artists. The artist paints abandoned, deserted places, destroyed churches, forcing the viewer to think about the difficult fate of Russia. The feeling of pain from the loss of loved ones, friends, compatriots was reflected in his works, full of quiet sadness and sadness. But, despite all this, the sadness of his work is light.

Writing in the last years of his life with a heart filled with kindness and love, the artist gave all of us a piece of himself. A quiet lyrical note, which begins to sound in the most remote corners of the viewer's soul, continues to delight him even after the review of the exhibition is over. The artist was sent down a unique talent to give people joy.