(Павел и Ляля. Иерусалимский романс)

Content: “Like the right and left hand Your soul is close to my soul We are sealed shut, blissfully and warmly, Like the right and left wing…” The life and art of Pavel Kogan and Lyudmila Stanukinas, two famous Leningrad documentary filmmakers, can best be expressed by the Tsvetaeva stanza cited above. They are the main characters of this film, which their student Viktor Kossakovsky shot during Pavel Kogan’s final months. For Lyudmila Stanukinas, Lyalya, as those close to her called her, her husband was her only reason for existence. She was with him until the end and held onto his extinguishing life as much as she could.

Countries:

Russia

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

34 minutes

Year:

1998

Directors:

Viktor Kossakovsky

Actors:

Self

Self

Self

Crews:

Screenplay

Director

Cinematography