Diegetic and exegetic narrators in Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary cycle "Music of Russian Painting"

this article is devoted to the identification of the role of diegetic and exegetical narrators in Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary film "A Sentimental Journey to My Homeland. Music of Russian painting". Directors: Vitaly Maximov, Nikita Mikhalkov, screenwriters: Vitaly Maximov, Nikita Mikhalkov. Music by Artemyev. The series consists of fifteen films, each of which features one or two paintings by Russian artists, a total of 19 paintings. The story of the paintings and their interpretation are conducted on behalf of the diegetic and exegetical narrators, who are the director of the film Nikita Mikhalkov himself. The purpose of this article is to conduct a narrative analysis of Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary cycle "Music of Russian Painting" and to identify the features of the verbal and non – verbal manifestations of diegetic and exegetic narrators in this work. To describe the diegetic and exegetic narrators in the documentary cycle, the article uses methods of contextual and narrative analysis. The practical significance of the research lies in the application of the method of narrative analysis to the study of a documentary cycle combining diegetic and exegetic narrators. The article concludes that there are two types of narrator in this documentary: diegetic and exegetical. The main ways of expressing the point of view of the diegetic narrator in this documentary are the convergence of the narrator's chronotope and the chronotope of the painting, the nature of the narrator's attitude to the events described (subjective/objective attitude), the narrator's goal setting towards the addressee (general intention). And the main ways of explicating the point of view of the exegetical narrator in this documentary are the connecting transition from the diegetic to the exegetical narrator, camera movement, and noises and sounds that convey the emotions of the artist and characters.

diegetic narrator, exegetic narrator, documentary, film text, camera movement, dubbing of a picture, emotion, painting