A film about the fate of a scientist, inventor, director of the SOPKTB SO VASKhNIL I.D. Bukhtiyarov. Filming took place in Moscow, on farms in the Kursk region, Krasnodar region and Siberia; the story is told in the genre of a documentary play.
Tree trunks.
A boy is sitting under a tree.
A man is blindfolded. I.D. Bukhtiyarov is playing blind man's bluff with children.
People are typing on typewriters.
Actor V. Borisenko as a prosecutor.
Photograph.
The prosecutor is sitting at the table and reading letters.
The secretary is answering the phone.
The prosecutor is laughing.
Photograph.
A grandmother is entering the yard.
A bus is going to the Sheremetyevo-2 terminal.
Alternation: the prosecutor is walking along the corridor, steps on the meadow grass, people on the street, the grandmother is walking toward the house.
A cobweb on the roof.
The grandmother is in the yard.
A cat is sleeping in the grass.
The grandmother is holding a glass of water.
The plane is taking off.
The grandmother is answering questions.
The prosecutor is studying the records of the personnel department.
Alternation: I.D. Bukhtiyarov is talking to fellow villagers, the prosecutor is listening to a tape recording, water is dripping into a bucket, a man is following the conversation.
People on the platform in the rain.
Bukhtiyarov I.D. -- scientist and inventor
agricultural innovator
organizer and director of the SOPKTB SO VASKhNIL.
Autumn
Clouds in the sky.
Cartoon.
Dog.
Intercut: I.D. Bukhtiyarov talking to fellow villagers, a man smoking and following the conversation, the prosecutor listening to a tape recording, a photograph.
Intercut: family photographs in the hands of the prosecutor, I.D. Bukhtiyarov's grandmother.
Intercut: I.D. Bukhtiyarov talking to people, a man smoking, laundry drying in the yard.
People on the platform in the rain.
Wall of a barn, dripping water.
View of the river, boats by the bank. I.D. Bukhtiyarov with fellow villagers in the yard.
Old house.
Village street, a car driving along a muddy road.
The wind ruffles the branches of the trees.
Intercut: flights on a motorized hang glider, I.D. Bukhtiyarov with collective farmers watching the flights, the use of motorized hang gliders in agriculture is discussed.
Tree branches. I.D. Bukhtiyarov and the farm manager are walking across a field.
A grandmother is sitting in the doorway of a house.
A prosecutor is sorting through photographs.
An anonymous letter. I.D. Bukhtiyarov is sailing on a boat.
A view of the footbridge, a child is floating past on a ring.
Bukhtiyarov I.D.
Autumn
I.D. Bukhtiyarov sails on a boat.
Photographs in hands.
Emblem of the Special Experimental Design and Technology Bureau (SOPKTB SO VASKhNIL).
Information stands.
Bureau specialists.
Patents.
Photographs of scientists on stands.
Scientists walk down the street with an invention in a string bag.
A model of an internal combustion engine in the hands of a scientist.
A lost harvest under the snow.
People inspect the harvest.
Fields covered with snow.
A man sorts through ears of grain.
A prosecutor.
People at a collective farm market. I.D. Bukhtiyarov sails on a boat.
Alternation: the prosecutor makes a phone call, the question of the day is on paper.
People answer the calls.
The prosecutor looks through family photographs.
Bukhtiyarov I.D.
Autumn
I.D. Bukhtiyarov at the cemetery.
Graves and fences. I.D. Bukhtiyarov narrates.
Intercut: the scientist wipes away tears, photographs.
The prosecutor.
The door to the reception room closes.
The secretary answers the phone.
A woman at the well.
A berry bush. I.D. Bukhtiyarov introduces the collective farmers to his inventions, shows drawings and blueprints.
Agricultural machinery works in the field.
The scientist talks to the collective farmers.
Intercut: drawings, diagrams and photographs.
Blueprints on the grass.
People talk with I.D. Bukhtiyarov.
A top view of the stage.
The prosecutor walks in a circle of spotlights.
The prosecutor sits at the table.
Bukhtiyarov I.D.
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Intercut: ears of corn, machine operators in a field in the rain.
Birch branches. I.D. Bukhtiyarov and the head of the farm inspect the lost harvest.
Intercut: clouds in the sky, people in the field.
Collective farmers observe experimental agricultural machinery.
The machine is on the road, scientists inspect the mechanism.
View of a lighted window of a house in the dark.
People talking over dinner.
House in the dark.
Experimental machine on a snow-covered field.
Scientists inspect the machine.
The prosecutor listens to a tape recording.
The prosecutor walks around the stage in a circle of spotlights.
Intercut: people typing on typewriters, the prosecutor reflects.
Caricature.
Prosecutor.
Painting.
Photograph.
Bukhtiyarov I.D.
Autumn
The prosecutor addresses the audience.
The lights go out.
The prosecutor and I.D. Bukhtiyarov’s grandmother talk in the dark.
The lights go on.
The prosecutor’s speech.
Spotlights.
A suit on a hanger.
The actor changes his clothes and discusses his role.
The spotlights go out.
A piece of fabric is removed, a view of the river.
Intercut with: a festive feast in the yard, people walking along the road, children standing at the gate.
A drawing.
Photographs.
Credits: I.D. Bukhtiyarov swimming in the river. I.D. Bukhtiyarov in a boat.
A scientist at the microphone.
A motorized hang glider is launched.
A grandmother sits on a bench. E.V. Bachurin sings to the accompaniment of a guitar.
Actor V. Borisenko.
An experimental machine drives through the snow.
Remains of the harvest under the snow. I.D. Bukhtiyarov.
Bukhtiyarov I.D. Bachurin E.V. -- poet
bard
artist
Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Autumn