"THE FRONT": MUSIC FOR A FILM AS AN ARCHIVAL DOCUMENT

"Music and cinema" is an important and popular topic in modern science. Correlation of visual and sound text, author’s music and various quotations, special artistic means and traditional academic writing — these and many other things provide an opportunity to explore a film as a three-dimensional and multi-component whole, to update the knowledge about the work of those artists who are involved in film production. In this regard, music in cinema is a special and yet still insufficiently explored area. It is well known that the music in a film and the cinematographic score, created by the composer are, most often, two close, but not identical texts. Not all musical numbers created or even recorded can be heard in a film, especially if we are talking about movies of the war years, because their integrity, their safety was not always possible. The film can be preserved, find itself in the vaults of history and not contain all the musical material, as happened to one of the most notable wartime films directed by G. N. and S. D. Vasilyev "The Front" (1943) with music by G. N. Popov (1904–1972). Based on the widely known play by A. E. Korneychuk, this film immediately attracted attention by its acute problem setting of front command in the first years of the war. The play, which won the Stalin Prize of the first degree, was staged in many theaters of the country and was a huge success, as was the film "The Front", one of the main roles in which B. Babochkin played. The film, as well as the play, was included in the Historical fund of works of national art. Based on archival materials, the author analyzes the preserved musical notes for the film "The Front" in the context of the play by A. Korneychuk and the script for the film, created by the playwright together with the directors. As the research has shown, the film "The Front" with the music by G. N. Popov is an important part of the art of the wartime, when, according to the composer, all forces in the creative field were given to "the national cause — the fight against the enemy" [2, 134].