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Good evening. My name is João Belmiro Freitas, I live in Criciúma, Santa Catarina - Brazil. I had chance to attend the excellent set of documents "Old Ponds" and found the music of deep fascinating of the documentary related one. Already I tried to search for the Internet some times and I do not obtain to discover the name and the author of this gorgeous music. Would it be possible to answer this email saying which is the name and the author of the music subject of this set of documents? Being thankful and congratulating vocês for the excellent work. Greetings. Belmiro, Criciúma, Santa Catarina - Brazil Director's comment Sitting in her flat in Old Ponds, a two hour drive outside of Moscow, Tatyana Osipovna Martynova, born 1903 picked up her glasses from the table and said: With my glasses on I can not see anything but without glasses I can read everything up to this day – if I would have learned reading! Tatyana has never gone to school. Nine months later, after I had finished the film in March 2004, Tatyana was watching the film and said: I can not see anything! But when she talked about what she had seen afterwards she remembered sequences as short as four seconds. After having watched the film Tatyana said: Now I can say good-bye. Tatyana Osipovna Martynova, born 1903, died 101 years old in her appartment on 16 June 2004 in Old Ponds, Russia.