Strong character (1959)

Morning industrial landscape, view of part of an industrial plant.

Workers walk to the checkpoint after finishing their shift.

Staged shots, re-enactment: the face of a young worker, Kostya.

Kostya chats with a workmate on the go, borrows money from him.

Kostya's wife, Valya, hangs tulle on the windows.

Kostya gives Valya a present in honor of 10 days of family life.

A perfume set given by Kostya to his wife.

Kostya gives his wife a Chinese parasol.

Kostya brings a vase he bought into the room.

Valya and Kostya argue, put the vase on the table.

Valya puts a cake on the table, starts a conversation about rational spending of money from the family budget, the spouses argue about opening a savings book (synchronously).

Kostya makes a drawing at the table, Valya shows him a piece of fabric for a blouse, an argument about stinginess and extravagance (synchronously).

Feet of couples dancing on the parquet.

Valya and Kostya enter the restaurant hall.

Kostya opens champagne, pours it into glasses.

The waiter brings the bill, Valya examines it and frowns.

Valya's upset face.

Valya is filling out a form in the savings bank.

The spouses sitting next to her are arguing about the amount of money to be withdrawn.

Filling out a receipt order for three hundred rubles in the name of I. V. Savelyev.

Valya fills out the form, the man leaves, a military man sits down next to her.

A military man fills out a receipt order form.

Valya's face, Valya's hands crumpling the completed receipt order for twenty-five rubles.

Valya starts playing palms with a little girl sitting next to her.

The girl's mother tells Valya about the money she has saved in her savings book to buy her daughter a fur coat (synchronously).

The face of a pensive Valya.

Valya filling out a receipt order for twenty-five rubles, Valya's face.

Valya deposits money into the account, gets the savings book back.

Valya in front of a poster calling for saving money at a savings bank.

Faces of savings bank visitors comparing Valya to the girl on the poster.

Visual propaganda with statistics on the wall of the savings bank.

Kostya hangs women's blouses on a clothesline at home, sits down, and hides behind a newspaper.

Valya returns home, asks about the blouses.

Kostya and Valya argue about the advisability of saving money (synchronously).

Valya buys tickets, the cashier persuades her to take tickets for more comfortable seats, Valya refuses.

People leave the theater building.

Valya and Kostya leave the theater, Kostya is indignant at the uncomfortable seats.

Valya explains to Kostya why she did this, Kostya takes a taxi.

Valya and Kostya get into a taxi.

Valya and Kostya argue in a taxi about the end of the route (synchronously).

The taxi stops, Valya gets out, Kostya pays.

Kostya and Valya are walking along the boulevard, a view of a part of the boulevard (from above).

Kostya is reading an excerpt from "The Covetous Knight" by A.S. Pushkin to Valya as they walk (synchronously).

Valya and Kostya are returning home and arguing about the difference between stinginess and frugality, which escalates into a quarrel (synchronously).

Valya is lying in bed alone with her eyes open, Kostya is sleeping on a camp bed.

Kostya turns around and looks at Valya.

The faces of Kostya and Valya, who have not slept all night.

Kostya gets up and goes into the next room to the telephone.

Kostya is talking on the phone with his friend, Valya is eavesdropping.

Kostya is sitting at a table in the savings bank, an elderly woman is asking him to fill out a form.

The elderly woman explains to the man who came up to her the advantages of a letter of credit, tells Kostya about the convenience of keeping money in a savings account (synchronously).

Kostya's friend Fedya, who came from the savings bank, says that he will not be able to lend money and asks to return the previous debt (synchronously).

Valya, who came with Fedya, shows Kostya the amount saved in her savings book, tells about the purchase of new furniture, Valya's face.

Visitors in the savings bank.

Valya and Kostya look at each other.

Valya's hands open the lid of the perfume set.

Valya and Kostya dance in the restaurant.

A pile of books in the corner of the room, a bookcase appears (combined shooting).

Valya arranges books on the shelves, a panorama of the room with new furniture.

Visitors to the savings bank put money into their accounts.

Pages of a savings book against the background of a panorama of industrial enterprises, production processes and construction sites (combined shooting).

Filling out a receipt order against the background of footage of the harvest (combined shooting).