Extraordinary encounters (1958)

Crowded streets of Moscow.

Photos of children – heroes of the magazine "Pioneria".

Search for former children.

The postman brings mail to the information bureau of the Central Documentary Film Department.

The film crew goes to the school where 10 years ago they filmed first-grader Yura Khudyakov.

Newsreel from the 1940s: A lesson in the first grade.

Yura is sitting.

Yura is reading poetry (synchronously).

The school on one of Peschaniye Streets, where Yura is a 10th-grader.

Yura is at the desk in the classroom.

Yura is answering the lesson (synchronously).

The last bell for tenth-graders.

Tenth-graders say goodbye to school.

Yura Khudyakov at the machine in the micrometer shop at the Kalibr plant.

Newsreel from the 1940s: A girl Zinat Akbarova is dancing (synchronously).

Search for Zinat Akbarova in Alma-Ata and the city of Chilik.

Zinat's father replies to a letter received from the studio.

Girls dance, among them an artist of the Uighur theater - Zeinat Akbarova.

Newsreel of the 40s: First-grader Igor Mikhailov is awarded a medal for the Defense of Stalingrad.

Igor in class.

General view of Gorky.

The building of the Institute of River Transport.

Student I. Mikhailov answers at the model of the ship (synchronously).

General view of Kherson.

Students of the institute, including I. Mikhailov, undergo technological practice at the reinforced concrete shipbuilding shipyard.

Arrival in Yevpatoriya to Igor's parents and his two twin brothers Oleg and Yuri.

Meeting.

The sons and their parents are going home.

Igor on the beach.

Igor sits next to Olga Parkhomenko on the beach.

The famous violinist Olga Parkhomenko walks with her son along Khreshchatyk.

Olga is at home studying with her son.

Newsreel from 1942: Olya plays the violin (synchronously).

Olga Parkhomenko speaking at the conservatory (synchronously).

Film crew in Gelendzhik: at the Chernomorets holiday home, on the beach looking for Lina Orlova.

Lina Orlova on the beach, speaking (synchronously).

Newsreel 1941-1945: Eleven-year-old Lina in hospital, feeding a wounded man, writing a letter.

Lina is awarded a medal.

Lina Orlova on a steamship, on the streets of Voronezh, in a factory workshop.

Engineer Orlova checks the welding of a heavy press.

Lina is studying in the lab.

Jim Patterson is walking along Moskovskaya Street.

Jim gives autographs to the schoolchildren who have surrounded him, talks to them (synchronously).

Fragments from the feature film Circus with Jim Patterson.

Jim Patterson, a cadet of the Higher Naval Academy, is in class.

Jim in a naval uniform is walking along the Neva embankment.

Masha Nazarina (Kruglova) works in the workshop of the first ball bearing plant, answers the correspondent (synchronously).

Newsreel from the 1940s: Fourth-grade student Masha Nazarina in class.

Masha and her friend are doing their homework at home.

Maria Ilyinichna Nazarina comes into a kindergarten to pick up children, walks with them along the street.

A film crew in Leningrad.

The cameramen talk to Vitya Petrov's mother Maria Vasilyevna.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Thirteen-year-old Vitya at the factory checkpoint; working at the machine where his father was killed.

Leningrad during the siege.

Vitya Petrov is presented with a medal.

Vitya speaks (synchronously). V. Petrov with his daughter, reads poetry (synchronously).

His wife is nearby.

General view of Omsk. V. Petrov walks through the workshop.

Schoolchildren go to the Moscow City House of Pioneers.

An employee of the studio information bureau shows a photo of Anya Borya in the director's office.

The address desk at work.

Moskovskaya Street in the rain.

Anya Borya with her daughter on the street talks to A. Ovanesova (synchronously).

Newsreel from the 1940s: Anya Bori performs Paganel's song from the film "Children of Captain Grant" with the choir at the House of Pioneers (synchronously).

The film crew is on a plane flying to Stalinabad.

Newsreel from the 1940s: Cotton picker Mamlakat Nakhangova among her fellow villagers; during a lesson at school.

A student of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Mamlakat, during a lesson (synchronously).

Teacher M. Nakhangova works with students (synchronously).

Mamlakat is teaching.

Mamlakat with his family: with his children and mother at home at the table.

Mamlakat with his children on a walk.

The house where Vladimir Ivanovich Kuzmin, a geologist and postgraduate student in the Department of Mineralogy at Moscow State University, lives. V. Kuzmin is on his way to Moscow State University; he is working in a university laboratory; he is talking with his scientific supervisor A.G. Teremetskaya (synchronously).

Vladimir Ivanovich with flowers in the maternity hospital.

Kuzmin’s wife, geologist Erna Nikolaevna, is in the ward.

Their son is sleeping in his crib.

Vladimir Ivanovich comes to his mother, Olga Zakharovna.

Newsreel from the 1940s: Volodya Kuzmin is giving his homework (synchronously).

Volodya is taking his high school exam in literature (synchronously).

Children from Auschwitz with numbers on their hands.

Anisya Petrovna Zazimko is carrying a girl, Annochka, whom she has taken in; she is donating blood for a transfusion for the girl.

Anya is getting ready for the graduation party.

Anya with her parents.

Her father gives her a watch.

Tenth-graders on the bank of the Dnieper, Anya among them.

Anya and her mother pick flowers in a forest clearing.

Newsreel from the 1940s: Little Annochka runs, walks with her mother.

Anya and Anisya Petrovna Zazimko are talking in the meadow (synchronously).

Alexandra Nikolaevna Pakhmutova is walking with her husband.

Newsreel from the 1940s: Anya Pakhmutova is playing the second part of her sonata on the piano in the class of composer Shebalin (synchronously).

Shebalin is talking to Anya. A.N. Pakhmutova is at home at the piano.

The symphony orchestra in the pavilion of the Central Studio of Film Performing Arts is performing a song by composer Pakhmutova from the film "On the Other Side". 79-year-old teacher Kapitolina Georgievna, now a pensioner, is teaching her neighbor's son at home; she is talking with children in the park.

The heroes meet in the studio.

Kapitolina Georgievna is performing at the evening (synchronously).

The film's heroes Yuri Khudyakov, Lina Orlova, Mamlakat Nakhangova, Olga Parkhomenko, Anisya Petrovna and Anya Zazimko, Anya Bori, Jim Patterson and others watch the newsreel.

The film's heroes go to class and work.

Panorama of Moscow.

Fragments of the film "Extraordinary Meetings"