The film tells about the difficult path taken by the Sverdlovsk Film Studio over 50 years since February 9, 1943. The release of the film is timed to coincide with the studio's anniversary.
Projectionists in the control room.
Projector beam, light reflections.
Hand on the remote control.
Panorama of the city in the vicinity of the film studio.
Camera operators with cameras.
Intercut with: thunderclouds with lightning, an order to organize a film studio.
Cartoon: lightning over the film studio lights up a caption on the screen.
A fireman with a hose creates a rain effect for filming.
Entrance to the film studio.
The airplane engine starts.
A man in the airplane cockpit.
A strong wind raises snow.
Director O.P. Nikolaevsky walks along the path.
The director arrives at the studio. O.P. Nikolaevsky climbs the stairs. O.P. Nikolaevsky introduces the studio workers to the viewer.
Intercut with: S. Kosareva and A. Anikeeva narrate, photographs.
Intercut with: make-up artist M.F. Petkevich narrates, photographs. O.P. Nikolaevsky reads a newspaper.
Photographs.
Stills from the feature film "Silva" (1944, directed by A.V. Ivanovsky).
Posters of films from the Sverdlovsk Film Studio with photographs of the directors.
Stills from the newsreel: the streets of Sverdlovsk. O.P. Nikolaevsky talking with G.M. Turgeneva.
Photographs.
Posters on the walls.
The directors talking in the office.
Diplomas.
Stills from the documentary film "Iron Age".
Nikolaevsky O.P. -- film director
screenwriter
actor
Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Turgeneva G.M. -- artist-composer
animator
director of popular science films
educational and animation films. Smirnova-Nemirovich Z.A. -- actress
opera singer
Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
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O.P.Nikolaevsky and B.G.Uritsky.
Photographs.
Footage from the newsreel: People at the cemetery, monuments and flowers on the graves.
People walking away along the path.
Yu.P.Lyubimov carries flowers to the monument to V.S.Vysotsky, people behind the fence.
Monument to V.S.Vysotsky.
Photographs.
Footage from a documentary by director L.L.Efimov: view of the sea from the bow of a ship during a storm, approaching the shore.
Photographs.
Footage from documentaries by director-cameraman A.S.Stremyakova: extreme gymnastics and hardening of infants, underwater filming of marine life.
Photographs. L.E.Kozyreva on the set.
The director and cameraman in the basket of the ski lift.
Photographs.
Footage from a documentary by director A.D.Baluev: a trip on a multi-seat tandem bicycle on land and water.
Photographs.
A bear with its prey.
A hunter shoots.
A hunter drags dogs away.
A cameraman films. A. V. Morozov with a movie camera in a truck.
A fire is burning. A. V. Morozov narrates. O. P. Nikolaevsky.
A backpack on the rocks.
A view of the river from the fire.
Intercut with: A. V. Morozov, photographs.
Stills from A. A. Litvinov’s documentary about the life of the peoples of the North.
Stills from the documentary “The One-Legged Dwarf” (1990, directed by A. V. Morozov).
People walking down the street. O. P. Nikolaevsky talking to I. K. Persian.
TV screen. I. K. Persian narrates.
Stills from a newsreel: the streets of pre-New Year’s Sverdlovsk.
Intercut with photographs, I. K. Persian.
A newsreel from different years: Putting out a fire.
Castro Ruz F. A. with workers at the plant.
Military operations in Vietnam.
Cinema hall of Sverdlovsk studio.
Photos.
Nikolaevsky O.P. Uritsky B.G. -- architect
film director
documentary film director
Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Yu.P. Lyubimov -- theater director
actor
teacher
People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Kozyreva L.E. -- philologist
director of documentary and popular science films. Morozov A.V. -- actor
director of documentary and popular science films. Persian I.K. -- screenwriter
operator
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Castro Ruz F.A. -- Cuban revolutionary
state
political and party figure
1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
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Stills from the documentary: Trotting races, horses' faces and legs.
A herd in a paddock.
The wall of an old stable.
A horse in a stall.
Horses standing under a tree.
A horse looks through the bars and snorts.
A man walks along a path.
A man leads a horse away. O.P. Nikolaevsky meeting with a colleague in the studio lobby.
Studio employees in the canteen. O.P. Nikolaevsky descending the stairs. O.P. Nikolaevsky and V.A. Savchuk.
Photographs.
The directors are sitting in armchairs.
Stills from the documentary "And the Past Seems Like a Dream..." (1987, directed by S.V. Miroshnichenko).
Photographs.
Stills from the documentary "Leshy.
Confession of an Elderly Man" (1987, directed by B.V. Kustov).
Photograph. V.A. Savchuk narrating.
People in the locker room. V.A. Savchuk with O.P. Nikolaevsky. V.A. Savchuk introduces young directors.
Photographs. O.P. Nikolaevsky comes to the set.
Interspersed: conversation with Ya.L. Lapshin, members of the film crew, photographs.
The building of the Sverdlovsk Film Studio.
Interspersed: directors I. Lapshin, Ya.L. Lapshin reminisce, photographs. O.P. Nikolaevsky.
Nikolaevsky O.P. Savchuk V.A. -- journalist
director
screenwriter
editor
Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. Lapshin Ya.L. -- film director
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Honorary Citizen of the Sverdlovsk Region
Veteran of Labor. Anchugov A.Yu. -- journalist
screenwriter and director of documentary films
teacher. Ulanova L.A. -- actress
author and director of documentary films. Knyazev S.A. -- projectionist engineer
poet
documentary film director
producer.
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Intercut with: Ya.L.Lapshin narrates, photographs.
Fragment of the mini-series "Gloomy River" (1968, directed by Ya.L.Lapshin).
The artist takes a painting from the shelf and carries it along the corridor.
The artist and the film crew in the studio. O.P.Nikolaevsky.
Intercut with: Yu.I.Istratov narrates, photographs, paintings.
Camera operator A.E.Lesnikov.
Ya.L.Lapshin narrates.
A sign on the office door.
A statuette, incense smoke.
Intercut with: B.Ts.
Khalzanov narrates, photographs.
Newsreel footage: a creative evening with L.L.Obolensky.
A top view of the film set.
The director with the actors in the scenery.
Intercut with: A.E.Lesnikov, photographs.
Actors on the set.
The film studio building.
A movie camera.
Drawings and tennis rackets on the wall. O.P. Nikolaevsky and A.K. Petrov. A.K. Petrov narrates.
Animation artists set up scenery for a puppet film. A.K. Petrov.
Photographs.
New Year's celebration at the studio.
An excerpt from the cartoon "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (1992, director and artist A.K. Petrov).
Nikolaevsky O.P. Lapshin Ya.L. Chursina L.A. -- theater and film actress
People's Artist of the USSR
Academician of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia. Epifantsev G.S. -- Soviet theater and film actor. Istratov Yu.I. -- painter
schedule
production designer
member of the Union of Cinematographers and the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation
Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Khalzanov B.Ts. -- Soviet and Buryat actor
film director
poet
member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR and the Union of Writers of Russia
Honored Artist of Buryatia. Obolensky L.L. -- film actor
silent film director
sound engineer
decorative artist
journalist
theatre teacher
People's Artist of the RSFSR A.K. Petrov -- cartoonist
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.
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Reflections in the glass of the equipment. S.S.Tarik at the editing table.
Intercut with V.I.Khotinenko and S.S.Tarik speaking, photographs.
Stills from the feature film "Patriotic Comedy" (1992, directed by V.I.Khotinenko). O.P.Nikolaevsky takes a cup and sits down at the table.
Intercut with conversation with G.K.Bokarev and L.P.Tolstoy, photographs.
The directors raise a toast.
Flashes of fireworks.
Projectionists in the projection room.
Chronicle of different years: the staff of the Sverdlovsk Film Studio at work.
Intercut with photo stands, film studio employees.
Closing remarks by O.P.Nikolaevsky.
The studio employees say goodbye to the viewer (shot from above).
View from above into the courtyard, glare from a street lamp.
Nikolaevsky O.P. Tariq S.S. -- editor
winner of international film festivals
Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. Khotinenko V.I. -- film director
actor
screenwriter
teacher
People's Artist of the Russian Federation
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Makovetsky S.V. -- theater and film actor
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Bokarev G.K. -- writer
playwright
editor
Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts NIKA. Tolstoy L.P. -- screenwriter
director
poet.
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