The last of four films about living music in the Soviet Union.
Giving Voice. 'Pure music should be pure music but we bear the stigma of the past.' That is how one young Russian composer explains the nature of the artist's task in a changing country. Giving voice - bearing witness - has always been a powerful element in Russian culture and it remains so today.
In this film composers describe the special and different qualities of contemporary music in their country - its symbolism and its profoundly religious nature.
With Alfred Schnittke ,
Edison Denisov , Dmitri Smirnov , Elena Firsova , Leonid Grabovsky and many others.
Director Barrie Gavin