SHOULD THE CLOVER RUSTLE IN THE MEADOW… YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO
In Russian / In Russian with English subtitles
39 minutes
This film takes the form of a monologue in which the poet Evgeny Evtushenko turns to his childhood and youth in the 1930s and 40s of the 20th century and recalls the Zima Junction where he was born, and the war years. He tells about his friends, his colleagues, politicians, family members and about people with whom he spent the years of his youth, the so-called “people of the 1960s” (shestidesiatniki) to whom we owe the first signs of freedom of thought in a country that was not free. Visually intense, this first-person narration “about the era and about myself” (according to the popular expression of Mayakovsky) is distinguished in a lyrical and personal way. It is a film about friendship, betrayal and love: love for a woman, for poetry, for the motherland.
A great poet ponders the most important questions: what is life? and what is death?
Was shown on National Russian TV Channel “Kultura”, 2012-2013; Film festivals in Russia; at the Middlebury College School of Russian; New York Public Library, 2016; the Tenth Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York, 2017 – the diploma for the best film in the “Russian Literature on the Screen” nomination category.
In the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow; the Yevtushenko Museum-Gallery, Peredelkino; Princeton University Library.