<...> I heard about the XX Congress at VGIK, in my fifth year. VGIK at that time was not yet completed and partially huddled in one wing of the Gorky studio, there was no Training studio, except for a tiny pavilion on the territory of the Gorky studio, but the composition of students was excellent, in my opinion, in the entire history of the institute's existence - the best. Suffice it to say that Hoffman and Skuzhevsky studied in Chiaureli's workshop, Mitta, Tarkovsky, Shukshin in Romm's workshop, Ordynsky, Bocharov, Segel in Gerasimov's workshop. You can't name all of them. And there were even more bright actors: Rybnikov, Larionova, Menshikov, Rumyanova, Konyukhov, Nifontova, Bulgakov, Gurchenko ...
The reading of Khrushchev's report for the directing and acting departments took place on the third floor, in room 300, the largest in the institute. Together with the students sat the masters, even Pyryev arrived, who, although he did not teach at VGIK, was the chairman of the State Examination Commission and often came to us. By the way, he once brought us to show us the second episode of Ivan the Terrible, which was then on the shelf. #伊万·培利耶夫
Not only party members and members of the Komsomol, but also non-party members were invited to this party meeting. The impression from the long reading of the report and from the reaction of those present was strange - in the audience almost all the time there was deathly silence. The only thing - in those places where Khrushchev spoke about how Stalin, in order to determine the time of the offensive, sniffed the ground - a slight noise rolled through the ranks. After the meeting, everyone also silently, quietly dispersed. And the next day everyone was surprised by Zhenya Karelov. In the past, he was the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol and, like his friend Vasya Shukshin (who was also associated with party activities), all the years at VGIK he wore a paramilitary suit, a kind of party uniform, and then he appeared in a green velor hat, fashionable a coat with giant shoulders, tight trousers and boots with thick corrugated soles (a real dude from Gorky Street!), thereby eradicating his party past from life. Shukshin wore a party uniform until the end of his stay at VGIK, this was also a principled position. #舒克申
We did not discuss that meeting loudly. And not because they were afraid, just the impression was so strong that it took time to comprehend. It seemed that we should have been ready for this letter (by 1956 some facts had already become known), but it is one thing when such things are spoken about in the corridors, and quite another thing when they are reported officially.
Sergeeva T. "... Rehabilitated a personal theme in the cinema ..." (Gennady Poloka) // Film Studies. 2006. No. 77.
https://chapaev.media/articles/3390
Vadim Abdrashitov: Nowadays, it would be impossible for the director of the Altai provincial school, entrant Vasily Shukshin to come to the capital, and even to study for a fee.
https://iz.ru/934600/marina-suranova/segodnia-shukshin-ne-postupil-vo-vgik