The film is dedicated to the problems of human origin and the existence of the yeti. The film includes interviews with anthropologists from different countries, eyewitness accounts, photo and film materials.
Himalayan mountain ranges.
Photos of tracks in the mountains.
Drawing.
Photos.
Forest thickets.
Life of a herd of chimpanzees in the wild (hierarchy, sharing of prey, raising offspring, fights, games).
A fight between chimpanzees and baboons.
The life of a chimpanzee (getting food, building shelters).
A crocodile crawls to the river.
Chimpanzees chase the crocodile away.
Drawings of prehistoric animals and the first people.
Scientists' opinions. I. Coppens tells the story.
A stuffed humanoid creature.
Coppens I. -- French paleontologist
mammothologist
Doctor of Archaeology
professor.
Continuation of the interview with I.Koppens. R.Leakey tells.
Interview with academician V.P.Alekseyev. R.Leakey tells. I.Koppens tells. B.Euvelmans' opinion.
Leakey R. -- Kenyan paleoanthropologist
author of paleontological discoveries
politician. Alekseev V.P. -- Soviet anthropologist
historian
Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Heuvelmans B. -- Franco-Belgian zoologist
writer
one of the founders of cryptozoology. Coppens I.
Continuation of the interview with B. Heuvelmans.
Chinese scientist Zhou Guoxing.
Sculpture.
Eyewitness accounts.
Amateur footage from 1971: Polish climbers study traces in Nepal.
An expedition helicopter flies over the shore.
Rafting on an inflatable catamaran.
Natural landscapes along the river banks.
The Buksunda settlement of Orochi reindeer herders, a herd of reindeer.
A man with a dog.
A journalist shows people drawings.
Reindeer herders' stories.
Eyvelmans B.
1971
Magadan region Nepal
M.G.Bykova tells, discussion of drawings of humanoid creatures. V.A.Chebotarev tells, draws during the interview. V.S.Karapetyan tells.
Interview with M.-Zh.I.Kofman.
Kofman M.-Zh.I. -- surgeon
oncologist
cryptozoologist
Full member of the Russian Geographical Society
Founder and Chairman
Russian Association of Cryptozoologists.
Continuation of the interview with M.-Zh.I.Kofman, discussion of photographs and footprint casts.
Portraits of scientists.
Amateur footage by R.Peterson and R.Gimlan: a humanoid creature in the forests of North America (sound disappears).
Experts' conclusions.
Opinion of D.D.Donskoy.
Donskoy D.D. -- professor of biomechanics
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences
Honorary Member of the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Kofman M.-Zh.I.
20.10.1967
USA
Continuation of the interview with D.D. Donskoy, discussion of the recording.
Host.
A herd of gorillas in captivity.
Komodo dragon.
The dragon hunts antelopes.
Large white pandas. I.D. Burtsev narrates.
A village of African pygmies.
The leader.
The detachment goes into the jungle.
A man chops down branches of a bush.
A woman builds a hut.
A man collects water from the river.
A woman and a child cover the hut with leaves.
A sleeping girdled gorilla.
A man collects chips and wood dust.
A woman with a baby.
Making fire.
A child sits under a tree.
A man blows on a fire.
Burtsev I.D. - candidate of historical sciences
participant and leader of search expeditions
author and co-author of scientific publications. Donskoy D.D.
Indonesia
Alternation: hunters in the jungle, birds and animals.
Hunter lures prey.
Man examines tracks on the ground.
Monkeys in the bush.
Hunter leaves.
Host sums up.
Photos.
Himalayan mountain ranges.