Shostakovich documentary / Шостакович - Эскизы к портрету композитора

A fantastic 1967 documentary by Albert Gendelshtein titled ’Dmitri Shostakovich - Sketches for a portrait of the composer’. There’s a lot of rare footage in this. In addition to Dmitri, there’s footage of his son Maxim Shostakovich, Leonid Kogan, Sviatoslav Richter, Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Evgeny Mravinsky, and a re-creation of the legendary concert in which Karl Eliasberg conducted the seventh symphony. More info here – Альберт Гендельштейн - Дмитрий Шостакович - Святослав Рихтер - Мстислав Ростропович - Владимир Немирович-Данченко - Леонид Коган - Галина Вишневская - Карл Элиасберг - Максим Шостакович - Евгений Мравинский - 1966