Socialist way of life (1987)

Panorama of the studio with participants of the Moscow-London teleconference (top).

Camera operators point their cameras at the audience (panorama).

Host of the teleconference Leonid Zolotarevsky in the studio, participants of the teleconference in London on the TV screen.

Participants of the teleconference in Moscow and London greet each other.

Participants of the teleconference ask each other questions and answer them.

Participants of the teleconference in Moscow listen to the opinions of the British about Russia and Russians, London participants of the teleconference on monitor screens, the host and Moscow participants of the teleconference in the studio, faces of the participants of the teleconference.

Deputy Ekaterina Popova talks to children.

Popova talks about the problems of fulfilling her deputy duties, about solving voters' problems, about persistence in solving production problems, about voters' trust in their deputy (synchronously and off-screen).

Production processes in a forge shop.

Popova talks with one of the voters.

Faces of Moscow participants of the teleconference.

Moscow participants of the teleconference answer the host's questions about the pressing problems of modern youth and the Soviet school (synchronously).

Faces of the teleconference participants.

Stage workers of the Educational Theatre of the Leningrad Institute of Theatre and Music prepare the scenery for the next performance.

Young actors - graduates discuss the meaning of life (synchronously and off-screen), stage workers prepare the scenery.

Boris Vishnevsky (Birman) performs a song about the meaning of life with a guitar (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the students of the Educational Theatre.

Graduates of the Educational Theatre discuss the concept of human personality (synchronously and off-screen), faces of young people.

Boris Vishnevsky and his comrades answer questions about the concept of spiritual values and love for a specific person, about people's adaptation to the environment, about the restructuring of human character, talk about perestroika as progress, about the role of man in this process (synchronously and off-screen).

London participants of the teleconference on monitor screens.

Moscow participants of the teleconference answer questions about their leisure activities and hobbies.

Faces of London participants of the teleconference on the monitor screens.

Hand-made souvenirs created by the Ovsyannikov artists and designers.

Artists and designers Anatoly and Lyubov Ovsyannikov talk about the language of communication that unites people, about the qualities of people that evoke sympathy, about the unification of all nations in the movement towards creativity, about the desire to do any work as best as possible, about developing a creative attitude to life in their children, about the attitude to small things in everyday life and in life, about perceiving the world through the eyes of other people (synchronously and behind the scenes).

The interiors of the Ovsyannikovs' apartment.

The Ovsyannikovs' works on the walls of the apartment (panorama).

The Ovsyannikovs' children draw while sitting at the table.

The interiors of the kitchen in the Ovsyannikovs' apartment, children's drawings.

The Ovsyannikovs and their children hang their works on the wall of their family exhibition.

The host of the Moscow-London teleconference L. Zolotarevsky and the participants of the teleconference in the studio listen to a question from London.

Moscow participants in the teleconference vote for Gorbachev's reforms.

A doubting participant in the teleconference expresses his opinion on the reforms being carried out in the country (synchronously and off-screen), faces of London participants in the teleconference on monitor screens.

One of the participants in the teleconference speaks out against Gorbachev's policies, gives arguments, talks about the failed attempts to restructure the man himself at various stages of history (synchronously).

Faces of Moscow participants in the teleconference.

One of the Moscow participants in the teleconference talks about the guiding and leading role of the CPSU in the development of a socialist society (off-screen).

View of the meeting hall of the 27th Congress of the CPSU in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (top).

Congress delegates in the hall.

Faces of the delegates.

Panorama of part of the congress meeting hall, Gorbachev M.S. speaks from the rostrum.

View of part of the congress meeting hall during Gorbachev's speech.

Delegates in the hall applaud.

Teacher E.N. Ilyin speaks from the stage of the Ostankino Concert Hall about the meaning of life, ways to achieve a set goal, the lack of spirituality in modern man, the need for a person to constantly be at work, the advantages of the socialist way of life, the struggle for man (synchronously and behind the scenes), adults and children in the hall listen to Ilyin's speech.

Faces of the listeners.

Panorama of the Ostankino TV Tower from the bottom up.

Seagulls overboard the ship.

Seascape.

Fishing vessels during the trade.

The net is unrolling, fishermen at the stern of the vessel.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War on the Black Sea coast visiting marines.

Faces of veterans and naval sailors.

Kyrgyz landscape.

Grazing horses.

Dew on plant stems.

Blooming daisies in the meadow.

The face of deputy Ekaterina Popova.

Faces of students of the Educational Theater of the Leningrad Institute of Theater and Music.

The Ovsyannikov spouses next to children drawing at the table.

Faces of the students of the Educational Theatre.

Boris Vishnevsky performs a song with a guitar (synchronously and off-screen).

A child stands by a chair with the inscription Station "Search".