Production :
“ETOFILM. Production centre of
Eduard Topol”
Plot synopsis
The film is about a legendary jazz trumpeter Valeri
Ponomarev. In 1973, Valeri Ponomarev, a 30-year old
Moscow musician left like a stalker for the capitalism
zone – the USA, while in New York he penetrated
into yet another “zone” – he became an acknowledged
trumpeter №1 in the world capital of black
jazz; for five years he has been playing in “The Jazz
Messengers” of Art Blakey - the best jazz orchestra.
Today, “twice stalker” Valeri Ponomarev is in the top
ten trumpeters of the world. He has a big band in
New York and a similar orchestra “The Russian
Messengers” in Moscow and pupils in Moscow and
New York. The film is about destiny and jazz.
Author of the documentary