Peak hour №1 20.06.1994 (1994)

The guest in the studio is the deputy director of the Crystal plant, Sergei Nikul'tsev, who talks about the consequences and results of the anti-alcohol campaign of 1985, the lack of meaning and results in it, the reduction in the production of alcoholic beverages, the subordination of the alcohol industry to the Committee on Agriculture and Food, the lack of assistance from the Committee, the reduction in the production of alcoholic beverages at the Crystal plant and the underutilization of the plant's capacities due to the increase in excise tax and selling price, the fall in demand for domestic vodka due to the increase in retail price, the appearance on the market of competitors from Belarus and Ukraine who do not increase excise tax, the absence of customs duties on imported alcoholic beverages, the failure to comply with the government's order to introduce customs duties on imported alcoholic beverages, the uncontrolled import of low-quality vodka into Russia and the idleness of domestic liquor factories, the production of counterfeit vodka, and the release of alcoholic beverages non-specialized enterprises and their low quality, about the processes of producing low-quality vodka, about the criteria for determining the quality of alcoholic beverages and the designations on the factory label, about the production of quality products by the factory throughout its history, about the influence of the decrees of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the government of 1982 on the range of products of the factory, about the healing properties of vodka in reasonable quantities, answers calls from TV viewers who scold alcohol, talks about the absence of alcoholics among his relatives, talks about the beginning of his career at the Moscow distillery (synchronously).

Profile: photographs by Nikultsev.

Video chronicle: samples of products of the Kristall factory.

Interior views of factory workshops and production processes in the workshops.

People drinking alcoholic beverages in South Africa during their holidays.

People's faces.

A holiday in one of the tribes.

Everyday life in South Africa.

View of a part of the savannah.

People's faces.