The film tells about our time through a kaleidoscope of human characters. The film tells about the changes in the life of the settlement Lobanovo in the Perm region and its residents during the perestroika policy. It consists of six stories.
Parts 1 and 2. "On the Benefits of Unemployment".
View of the village of Lobanovo.
A disabled man without legs travels along the highway in a special cart, pushing off with his hands.
Rehearsal of a folk choir (synchronized).
View of a church in the evening.
A restaurant inside the church; restaurant patrons sit at tables and dance; a wall painting depicting scenes from peasant life in the restaurant.
An interview with a former artist-designer, in which he talks about how he became unemployed (synchronized).
A red flag on the roof of the local administration building.
A designer in his studio shows a portrait of V.I. Lenin, which he made while working.
Landscapes by the designer at home.
The beginning of restoration work in the church: workers dismantle partitions, welding work.
A designer takes part in the restoration of the church.
Cities, villages, rural settlements, Amateur art activities, Christianity, Catering, Club-type institutions, Household services to the population (funeral business), Agricultural sciences, Family, Standard of living, Population (in t), h, composition and accounting), Individual farming and gardening, Landscapes
Zakharchenko
Lobanovo Perm region
An auction of decorative and applied art items at a club (synch).
Paintings by a designer among the auction items.
Workers install a wooden cross on a church dome.
Local residents and a priest watch the installation of the cross.
Parts 2 and 3. "Pioneers".
The director interviews local residents who talk about their unsuccessful attempts to create a farm (synchronized).
A meeting of local residents with a representative of the administration on the issue of farms (synchronized).
The funeral of a local resident.
The funeral service in the church.
Parts 3 and 4. "The Autumn of the Patriarch".
Director of the Scientific and Production Association "Preduralye" of the Perm Scientific Research Institute I.V. Zakharchenko talks in a car about his childhood and youth (synch.), visits the village where his dispossessed parents were exiled in the 1930s.
Footage from a newsreel of an interview with I.V. Zakharchenko, filmed in 1971, about the technology of cultivating root crops (synch.). I.V. Zakharchenko plays the balalaika at home (synch.). I.V. Zakharchenko talks to his secretary in his office (synch.).
Parts 4, 5 and 6. "A Sad Story".
An elderly peasant woman, N. O. Kondakova, tells about her life (synchronized), talks to Ivan, with whom she lived together for 15 years (synchronized), and to her neighbors (synchronized). N. O. Kondakova and Ivan visit the registry office, where they file an application for marriage. I. V. Zakharchenko talks to N. O. Kondakova at her home (synchronized).
The wedding of N. O. Kondakova and Ivan in church (synchronized).
Parts 6 and 7. "Maximalist".
A local resident, an inventor, talks about his work on a complex of machines for the garden in his workshop, discusses the Russian economy (synch).
The inventor demonstrates his machines.
The house where the inventor's family lives.
The inventor and his wife harvest potatoes in their garden.
Residential buildings in Lobanovo.
Installation of the Russian national flag on the roof of the administrative building. I.V.Zakharchenko watches the installation of the flag.
A group of people with an accordion player walks along the street.
Clouds over the field.
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