25 May 2010. Return of a sunny morning...
Life of Aleksandr Vertinsky, an emigre in Paris, the Russian Pierrot. Novella within a song...
His return to Soviet Russia, during the war, and later marriage, in Shanghai, to a woman 33 years younger. Pictures with their two daughters. Also, film footage of Vertinsky in wide-floored apartment, jacket hung over the frame of a painting on the wall, his tie alongside, one pant leg rolled up, block of wood wrapped to one foot, sliding back and forth in some kind of vigorous exercise... His hands in the air, moving in lyric time...
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