纪念苏联作曲家肖斯塔科维奇逝世30周年，无对白，音乐 黑白影像，类似苏古诺夫早期的那些短片。 　　Fate of the Artist is inseparable from the time of his life. Here are the works of the masters, and continue to live after his death. The film is "Epitaph" - tells about the fate of Dmitri Dmitrievich, the fate of the country, using a single language, which is organic in the narration about the composer - the language of music. The film became the Eighth Quartet, which Shostakovich himself wrote it: "... if I ever pomru, it is unlikely that person to work on my memory. That is why I have decided to write one. On the cover so you can write:" Dedicated to memory of the author of the quartet. "That is why this quartet sometimes called the biography of the composer. The authors have tried to see the film in a quartet that included the time in which he lived a great composer. However, they say that stories sometimes tend to recur. 　　Boris Dvorkin was born in 1958.He graduated from Leningrad Navy School and worked as a director of the radio station at the fishing boats. Later on the TV companies as a journalist, cameramen and film director.In 2002 graduated Higher Courses For Screen Writers and Film Directors. Workshop of non-fiction film directing. Masters – L.Gurevich, A.Gerasimov.He is working as a director at “Risk” film studio, “Positive-film” studio, studio “Cvart” and other.