Voice-Over Text in Documentary Film Discourse

The article is devoted to the characteristics of voice-over text functions as a way embody film discourse documentary that recreates image M. Gorky during last ten years his life. material study was correspondence in 1924–1927 with writers, where attitude transformations Soviet Union and work on story “The Life Klim Samgin” were discussed. In order restore amount underlying script, carried out decipher sounding text, addressees letters, dating established, fragments included compared full letters. As result study, it proved considered history cinema an auxiliary element video sequence, by S. Aranovich B. Dobrodeev acts main semantic narrative, built principle editing epistolary, arranging them according problem-thematic violation chronology correspondence. most important feature combination within one episode quotations from Gorky’s letters different addressees, which dictated author’s concept writer tragic personality who turned be hostage myth created about him proletarian writer, defender Bolshevik ideology.