Three teachers discuss the problem of the full development of personality. The conversation takes place in a puppet theater where "Cyrano de Bergerac" was once staged.
Mikhail Chernikhovsky recalls how he started working in the theater (synchronously).
A spread from the book "Cyrano de Bergerac".
Close-up: a doll's head.
The theater room where the dolls are kept.
A young man sorts through the dolls, looking for something.
Close-up: heads of dolls closing their eyes, opening their mouths.
A puppet theater workshop.
An artist is drawing.
Panorama of the room: jars, brushes, drawings, dolls.
Old group photos.
A fragment of the film: "The Village Teacher".
Close-up: hands kneading clay.
Mikhail Chernikhovsky recalls a school lesson (synchronously).
Hands sculpt.
Hands sculpt a head.
Another man (Arkady Zastyrets) recalls (synchronously).
Doll.
Doll's head.
The head of the future doll is gradually taking shape.
Vladimir Belov recalls (synchronously).
There is a forge on the table.
Hands sculpt a doll.
M.Chernikhovsky Zastyrets A.V. - history teacher V.Belov V.Kozlov
Sverdlovsk
V.Yu.
Kozlov, former principal of school #40 (synchronously). M.Yu.
Chernikhovsky, extended-day teacher (synchronously). A.Zastyrets (synchronously). V.Kozlov (synchronously).
Hands filling out a form with paper.
Dolls. A.Zastyrets recalls working at a vocational school (synchronously).
Camera operator at the camera.
A group of teachers sitting around a coffee table set for tea.
Toy soldiers.
Panorama of shoes on the floor.
A group of adults and children playing with soldiers.
Fragment of the film "We'll Live Till Monday".
Conversation of teachers.
Doll workshop.
A girl boils paraffin.
Panorama of dolls. A.Zastyrets (synchronously).
Panorama of the doll workshop. V.Kozlov (synchronously).
Kozlov V.Yu. - former director of school No. 40 in Sverdlovsk
Sverdlovsk
A boy sits at a desk in an empty classroom.
The boy is reading.
At another desk, in another row, sits a girl.
Children's faces.
Girls walk down the hallway with buckets and mops. V. Kozlov (synchronously).
Fragment of the puppet show "The Wizard of the Emerald City".
Fragment of another puppet show.
Close-up: the puppeteer's hands.
Fragment of the film "Chuselo". A. Zastyrets (synchronously). V. Kozlov (synchronously).
Teachers read poetry.
Dolls.
Workshop.
Dolls are placed in a box.
A bugle on the table.
Drums and bugles on a shelf.
Group photos of school graduations of different years.
Sverdlovsk