Russian chronicler №10-1993 Reporter V. Mezentsev (1993)

Grass in the meadow.

A teddy bear lies next to a framed photograph.

A sea captain's uniform lies on the bed. V. G. Mezentsev's story about his father (synchronously and off-camera), Mezentsev demonstrates his father's awards.

Preparing the hall for filming, setting up lighting equipment and TV cameras.

Hand counting the start of filming.

Mezentsev turns the camera.

The sound engineer at the mixing console.

Recording equipment in the studio, Mezentsev's interview is heard off-camera.

Inserting a video cassette, starting the video footage.

Video chronicle: Mezentsev reports on the life of drillers on the oil rigs of the Barents Sea.

Drilling rigs, the daily work of drillers.

Autumn rural landscape.

Mezentsev climbs onto the broken porch of the dacha, opens the door.

Mezentsev's story about his life and work (synchronously and off-camera).

Panorama of a neglected dacha yard, Mezentsev walking his dog.

Rural landscapes in the vicinity of Mezentsev's dacha, view of part of a country road.

Turning on the sound equipment in the television studio.

Intro and fragments of the television program "I Ask for the Floor!" with Mezentsev presenting the reports.

Mezentsev interviews various people.

Mezentsev's meeting with I.M. Smoktunovsky.

Mezentsev interviews in the pool.

Yeltsin B.N. gives an interview to Mezentsev.

Mezentsev is reclining on a bed next to his little son and talks about journalism, fame and popularity, and his work (synchronously and off-screen).

Typewriter by the mirror.

Panorama of the Ostankino TV Tower (bottom to top).

The Moskvich 2141 automobile drives past Lobnoye Mesto and stops on Red Square, Yeltsin gets out of the car.

Yeltsin gives an interview to Mezentsev on the move about the progress of the first day of the Congress of People's Deputies (synchronously).

Yeltsin walks to the entrance to the Kremlin grounds.

Sea surf.

Panorama of the coast and the coastal amusement park with a Ferris wheel.

Views of winter Batumi, palm trees, heavy snowfall.

Video footage: Mezentsev sits at a table in an empty restaurant hall, gives an interview to foreign television journalists (synchronously).

Sea surf.

Continuation of Mezentsev's interview on the street (synchronously, in English with voice-over translation), shows a pen and a gun taken out of his pocket.

Mezentsev talks about the journalistic investigation he conducted in Batumi, about the persecution by people he criticized (synchronously), Mezentsev's wife Natalya joins her husband.

Mezentsev at his dacha with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his hands.

Mezentsev walks among the participants of the rally near the White House in Moscow on September 23, 1993. Journalists interview the defenders of the White House.

Mezentsev's interview at the barricades of the White House.

The cameraman is filming.

Mezentsev among the people gathered at the White House.

Armored personnel carriers drive across the bridge opposite the White House, a view of the burnt-out White House building after the assault.

Views and panorama of the White House area during the events of early October 1993. Fire and smoke billow from the windows of the White House.

Watermelons and melons on the side of the highway.

Mezentsev sells on the roadside from the hood of his car.

Traffic.

Mezentsev talks about his work in the Caucasus and his return to Russia, and his impressions of today's Russia (synchronously).

A bottle of vodka and glasses on the roof of a car.

Mezentsev walks during a snowfall, lights a cigarette.

A view of part of a metal fence and the Ostankino TV tower.