People (fragments) (1934)

A view of a village in winter (from above).

The windmill's wings are spinning.

A winter rural landscape.

Entrance to the technical site of the Muravlyansky collective farm "New Life" in the Gorlovka district of the Moscow region.

Collective farmers, buckets in hand, walk toward a bathhouse built of branches.

A man enters the bathhouse.

A peasant steams himself with a birch whisk.

A woman enters the bathhouse.

A man crawls out of a bathhouse on all fours, rubbing his face with snow.

Steam rises from the bathhouse entrance.

A naked man in the doorway washes his face with a bucket.

A view of an old bathhouse.

Peasants in a steam room on straw.

The chairman of the collective farm, Ovchinnikov, takes off his underwear in the shower, calling for the construction of a new bathhouse.

The water taps in the shower are opened.

Water pours from the shower heads.

A sign with the name of Kalinin Machine-Building Plant No. 3. Entrance to the plant's sponsorship office.

Representatives of the plant's sponsorship office are discussing the construction of a new bathhouse on the collective farm they sponsor.

The face of the meeting chairman, with Ovchinnikov, the collective farm chairman, sitting nearby.

Ovchinnikov is among the participants of the sponsorship meeting.

Blowing horns.

A celebration at the collective farm to mark the start of construction on a new bathhouse.

Collective farmers and factory bosses ride through the village on a sleigh, an accordion playing.

Carpenters are building the new bathhouse.

People are passing bricks back and forth.

Collective farmers pass bricks to each other in a chain during the construction of a new bathhouse, and accordion players encourage the workers with their playing.

A man puts on a sheepskin coat in the entryway.

A wife gathers food for her husband, wrapping it in a kerchief.

The man walks out the door with a bundle under his arm.

Tree branches and frost against the night sky.

A sign above the entrance to the new bathhouse at the "New Life" collective farm.

A hairdresser's client in front of a mirror.

An elderly collective farmer thanks the barber for his service.

The door to the steam room of the new banya opens, men in the steam room.

Men in the steam room on the benches are washing themselves with buckets, lathering their hair.

A man on the top bench.

A man, soaped to the waist.

Washing from buckets.

Men are steaming with birch whisks on the top bench in the steam room.

A man pours water from a bucket over himself.

The door to the steam room closes.

A man dries his head with a towel after washing in the banya, a man smoking while lying down.

A man lights a cigarette with a friend, sharing his impressions of washing in the new banya.

An elderly collective farmer thanks the barber for his service.

The door to the steam room of the new banya opens, men in the steam room.

Men in the steam room on the benches are washing themselves with buckets, lathering their hair.

A man on the top bench.

A man, soaped to the waist.

Washing from buckets.

Men are steaming with birch whisks in the steam room on the top bench.

A man pours water from a bucket over himself.

The door to the steam room closes.

A man dries his head with a towel after washing in the banya, a man smoking while lying down.

A man lights a cigarette from a friend, sharing his impressions of washing in the new banya.

Men in the locker room put on clean underwear after washing in the banya.

A man ties his shoelace in the changing room after washing.

Two men, fresh from the bathhouse, lie head to head, smoking.