theme 14.05.1993 (1993)

Topic of the program: Old people.

Guests in the studio: Valiev Georgy Georgievich - associate professor of the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering and Kira Petrovna Smirnova - Soviet and Russian pop artist.

Smirnova Kira Petrovna answers the question of the viewer, why is it so unfair that fate decreed that the body ages earlier, but the soul remains young.

Smirnova Kira and Valiev Georgy answer the question, what did you feel when you received your pension certificate.

Smirnova Kira says that she worked for another fifteen years after receiving her pension book.

Valiev Georgy says that he was glad to have free travel on the metro.

Plot: a survey of people on the street: How do you imagine yourself in old age?

Valiev Georgy answers the question, what does a person feel when he retires.

Valiev Georgy says that you should continue to work even in retirement.

Smirnova Kira and Valiev Georgy answer the question, what does a person need to overcome this stage of life.

Valiev Georgy says that you need to have a hobby.

Smirnova Kira says that you need to have a hobby and a job in retirement.

Smirnova Kira and Valiev Georgy answer the question of whether it is possible to live on a pension or people need to work.

A fragment of the film about pensioners.

Smirnova Kira talks about the younger generation and about herself.

Smirnova Kira and Valiev Georgy answer the question of how you feel about the fact that new technologies and young energetic people are displacing pensioners.

Valiev Georgy says that he feels thirty-five years old, works three jobs and is not inferior to the young.

A fragment of the film "Old Robbers".

Smirnova Kira answers the question of why so many pensioners go to rallies.

Valiev Georgy says that he tries not to communicate with people his age, he gets bored with them.

Valiev Georgy says that he enjoys cycling and hiking in the forest.

Valiev Georgy answers the question of why many people do not have the strength to play sports.

Valiev Georgy says that he runs, swims and has lost twenty kilograms.

A fragment of the film "Seven Old Men and One Girl".

Smirnova Kira answers the question, what is your attitude towards nursing homes.

Smirnova Kira talks about her negative attitude towards nursing homes.

Valiev Georgy says that he would prefer to die on the run than to live in a nursing home.

Story: About boarding house #31 for veterans of labor.

Video: Sign "Boarding house #31 for veterans of labor", a woman at the entrance to the boarding house.

Shurko Marta - Deputy Director for the Medical Department of Boarding House #31 for veterans of labor, talks about pensioners living in the boarding house.

Pensioners in the corridor of the boarding house.

A canteen employee at the table.

A woman clears dishes from the tables in the canteen.

A woman reads poems about the boarding house.

Pensioners at the tables in the canteen of the boarding house.

Pensioners sing a song next to an accordionist.

A woman sits in a chair in the room.

An icon and a candle.

A woman lights a candle from a candle in a church.

A woman talks about her life in a boarding house.

A fragment of the film.

A man in the studio, on behalf of the owner of the Zolotoy Taletz company, asks Vladislav Listyev to assist in the transfer of medicines to Moscow nursing homes and the disabled in the amount of one million rubles.

A viewer answers the question of what a social worker is.

A conversation in the studio about social workers.

Plot: About the work of the Social Security Office.

Pensioners talk about the ordeals of receiving their pension benefits.

A signboard saying "Social Security Administration", people in the corridor of the institution, a woman talks about her problems, a man talks about receiving benefits and inflation, a woman talks about recalculating his pension, a queue at the office.

Khimina Tatyana - Deputy Head of the Kuntsevo District Social Security Administration, talks about bureaucracy.

A viewer talks about social assistance to pensioners at home, through territorial social service centers.

A social worker in the studio, answering the host's question about how long she plans to work in social assistance, replies that she has thought it all over, it will be for a long time.

Smirnova Kira answers the question about why we do not cultivate respect for the elderly.

Smirnova Kira answers the question, There are happy days in old age.

Smirnova Kira talks about Russian folk tales and Baba Yaga.

The host talks to a little boy in the studio and asks him questions about his grandmother, grandfather and family traditions.

Valiev Georgy says that he is not into wood carving, but is into radio.

A fragment of the film "Promised Heaven".

Smirnova Kira answers the question about how you feel about what is happening in the country now, you were raised on different ideals.

Smirnova Kira talks about her life.

Valiev Georgy talks about his repressed father and his life and work.

Story: about pensioners trading.

Video: Pensioners on the street selling food, wine, sugar, road sign - "underpass", sign "Elderly person", male pensioners talking on the street, female pensioners walking along the alley, a row of women and men selling things from their hands.

A pensioner says that she is not ashamed to sell on the street and she has a small pension.

A woman with a shovel in her hands is standing on the lawn.

The woman is a controller at VDNKh.

View of the central entrance to VDNKh.

Women are leveling the lawn with a rake, a woman is watering with a hose.

A woman is talking about pensioners trading on the streets.

A beggar - a pensioner is sitting on the floor in an underpass, asking for alms.

A row of women selling things from their hands.

The beggar says it is better to beg than to speculate.

A small child with a bucket.

Pensioners on the street selling food.

A girl talks about pensioners.

Smirnova Kira and Valiev Georgy talk about their ability to work and death.

Smirnova Kira sings a song.

Photos of Smirnova Kira from different years.

A viewer talks about the attitude to pensions in our society, compares the attitude to pensions in Russia and in the West.

The host asks Smirnova Kira and Valiev Georgy whether our society has spoiled us and our attitude to pensions.

The host says goodbye to the viewers.