At the 101st kilometer. (No, the truth is inviolable) (1990)

A river in the dawn haze, a panorama of the bank, a field, village houses on a hill.

The village of Dontso, Volosovsky District, Leningrad Region.

In the frame: Nina Aleksandrovna Lebedeva, a Soviet geneticist and plant breeder.

Lebedeva is turning the handle of a well.

General shot: a yard, Lebedeva at the well, getting water, pouring it into a bucket.

Lebedeva takes a bucket of water, goes to the house, goes inside.

Lebedeva is speaking.

In the frame: a sound engineer in headphones, recording an audio recording of the conversation, a panorama of a working tape recorder.

Lebedeva in a room, at a table, talking about her speech at the congress of plant breeders in 1963. General shot: a room in the house, the film's director I. Voitenko is talking to Lebedeva, in the frame: a cameraman with a camera.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Close-up: a magazine, glasses, apples on the table.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Photographs from the Lebedeva family archive, large - a photo of Nina Alexandrovna in her youth.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Lebedeva is at the table, with photo albums, telling Voitenko about meeting the writer Dudintsev.

Large - a tape recorder is working, the reel is spinning, recording.

Lebedeva is speaking.

The sound engineer in headphones is near the tape recorder - recording the conversation.

Lebedeva is talking about Dudintsev, opening an album with photographs.

Large - in the photograph, the writer Dudintsev is looking through a microscope.

Lebedeva is leafing through the album, showing the photographs.

Large - in the photographs, the writer Dudintsev.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Lebedeva is at the table, picking up Dudintsev's book "White Clothes".

A village, a country road, a truck is driving.

Panorama of a wooden village house, a front garden, Lebedeva comes out of the gate, walks along the road.

An elderly woman with small grandchildren is walking along the road.

A mobile shop, trading is in progress, Lebedeva approaches a group of women standing in line.

Lebedeva makes purchases in a mobile shop, puts bread and food in a string bag.

General shot - a mobile shop, villagers are standing near the car, making purchases, chatting, etc.

Lebedeva is walking along the road, holding a string bag with food and a box of eggs in her hands, meets her granddaughter, they enter the yard of a house.

A tractor is working in the field - plowing the land.

A woman puts wooden boxes in a trailer body.

A field, yellow flowers, a UAZ with a trailer is driving along the road, Lebedeva is working in the field.

Lebedeva's daughter Vera and granddaughter get out of the car; they go to a potato field, the man takes boxes out of the body.

The granddaughter goes to her grandmother in the field, Lebedeva's daughter puts boxes at the edge of the field.

Large - potato beds, signs with names are thrown into the holes.

Vera hammers signs into the ground.

Lebedeva works in the field - digs up potato tubers, checks them, etc.

Vera lays out the tubers along the beds.

Lebedeva opens a wooden box with an axe.

Vera, Lebedeva's daughter, works in the field, lays out potato tubers in the field.

Lebedeva takes bags out of the box.

A man buries tubers in the field.

Vera and a man work in the potato field.

Lebedeva walks with bags along the beds, approaches her daughter.

Panorama of the field, signs with potato varieties are visible.

Lebedeva, her daughter Vera, and other employees are working in the potato field.

Close-up - a hand signs a small sign with a pencil.

Close-up - small potato tubers are planted in a pot with soil.

People are shown working in the potato field, Lebedeva's granddaughter is in the frame.

Different potato tubers are lying on the box, Lebedeva and Vera are planting tubers in pots with soil, a panorama of the pots standing in the field.

Pots with planted potatoes are buried in the ground in a field.

Lebedeva is sitting in a field, next to a wooden box, taking notes, her daughter is working nearby.

Close-up - a cat.

General plan - a potato field, people are working, village houses are visible in the background.

Stills from the documentary film "By the Laws of Genetics" (1967) - a storage facility is shown, boxes with samples, in the frame is Nina Aleksandrovna Lebedeva, tubers of breeding potatoes are demonstrated, etc., Lebedeva works with seeds in the laboratory, is engaged in scientific work, develops new varieties, hybrids, Lebedeva in a potato field, in the frame - potato tubers, etc.

Lebedeva is speaking, the director of the film I. Voitenko is sitting at the table.

Lebedeva continues speaking, goes to the stove, takes a kettle, pours boiling water into Voitenko's cup.

Lebedeva is speaking.

The frame shows a room in Lebedeva's house, stacks of newspapers, papers, documents, and potted cacti on the windowsill.

General shot - Lebedeva and the director at the table, talking.

Close-up - table, cups, Lebedeva's hand in the frame.

The director at the table, drinking tea, listening to Lebedeva.

Close-up - Lebedeva putting jam from a jar into sockets.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Voitenko is sitting at the table, listening to Lebedeva.

Lebedeva enters the house with firewood in her hands, goes into the room, lights the stove, close-up - fire, firewood is burning in the stove.

Teapots are warming up on the stove.

Lebedeva is washing her hands in a basin.

Vera, Lebedeva's daughter, is riding her bicycle along the road.

Women are working in a potato field, watering the beds, etc., Lebedeva is in the field, looking at the beds, taking notes.

Close-up - a hand is watering a potato bed from a mug.

General shot - potato field, woman working, panorama of beds, pots buried in the ground.

Panorama of potato field, workers weeding, working with hoes.

Flowers in pots on the windowsill, panorama of Lebedeva, who is sitting in a chair and talking to the film's director (Lebedeva talks about her husband).

Flowers on the windowsill, in the room, panorama of a picture on the wall that Lebedeva's husband painted.

Lebedeva is speaking, panorama of a photograph of Lebedeva's husband hanging on the wall.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Close-up - flowers on the windowsills, the newspaper "Rural Life", bottles of medicine.

The sound engineer is recording a conversation with Lebedeva.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Close-up - tape reels are spinning, recording is in progress.

Lebedeva is speaking.

In the frame - a white building of the estate with columns, panorama of the surrounding area, Lebedeva walking with her daughter and granddaughter.

Lebedeva with her family at the cemetery, at her husband's grave - she puts flowers on the grave, wipes the tombstone, kisses the photograph, cries.

Lebedeva leans against the fence, looks at her husband's grave, cries, then leaves the cemetery.

A river, reeds, village houses are visible on the other bank.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Close-up - potato samples in laboratory glassware, research is being conducted.

Lebedeva and her daughter are working at the table, doing breeding, potato samples, laboratory glassware, etc. are in the frame.

On the windowsill and on the table are potato sprouts with leaves and flowers in jars of water - Lebedeva is engaged in research and breeding work.

Close-up - a hand with tweezers is tearing off petals from a potato flower.

Lebedeva and her daughter are working at the table.

Close-up - a hand with tweezers is getting pollen out of a flower.

The frame shows Lebedeva working at a table with potato shoots.

Close-up - a window, flowers on the windowsill.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Close-up - articles in various newspapers about potatoes, selection, etc.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Close-up - Soviet newspapers on the table, an article in the newspaper "Potatoes without Jackets".

Lebedeva is speaking.

Director Voytenko is sitting at the table, listening to Lebedeva.

The frame shows a room, Voytenko and Lebedeva are sitting at the table, a cameraman is standing next to the camera.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Voytenko is asking questions about the new varieties of potatoes bred by Lebedeva.

Vera, Lebedeva's daughter, enters the barn where the storage facility is located, the frame shows boxes of potato tubers.

Lebedeva is standing near the boxes, talking about the new variety of potato "Spring".

Close-up - tubers in Lebedeva's hands.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Vera is putting potatoes into boxes.

Lebedeva is in the frame.

Close-up of hands putting potatoes into a box.

Lebedeva and Vera are near the boxes, putting potatoes, talking about new varieties.

Men are loading sacks of potatoes into the back of a truck.

Director Voitenko and Lebedeva are sitting at a table, talking.

Close-up of Lebedeva's face, hand with a pen.

Lebedeva is speaking, talking about the Vesna and Belaya Noch varieties, in the frame are Soviet newspapers with articles on the topic of potato breeding.

Director Voitenko is visible in the window, sitting at a table (shot from the yard).

Lebedeva is speaking.

View from the window onto the room where the interview is taking place.

In the frame are Soviet newspapers on the table.

Lebedeva is speaking.

Lebedeva is holding letters from different people who are asking to send her seed potatoes.

Close-up of envelopes in Lebedeva's hands.

The Ukrainian collective farm "Progress", a panorama of a field, in the frame - a working tractor.

The chief agronomist of the collective farm V. I. Karol is driving the car, a horse-drawn cart is passing along the road.

Karol is speaking.

Driving along a wheat field (shot from the car, from the movement).

The agronomist's car enters a potato field.

Agronomist Karol is in the field, giving an interview to the director with a microphone.

The agronomist and the director are taking potato tubers from the ground.

A tractor is working in the field, collecting potatoes, in the frame - potato tubers lying on the ground.

Collective farm workers are collecting potatoes in buckets.

In the frame - a river, a herd of cows grazing on the bank, a panorama of a field, a horse-drawn cart is driving along the road, trucks with boxes of potatoes are standing, collective farmers are harvesting.

Driving along the fields in a car, the film's director Voitenko is interviewing the agronomist.

Panorama of a river, reed thickets.

In the frame - a potato field, women working in the beds, digging up tubers, etc.

Close up - a potato bush is being dug up, tubers are being selected.

Boxes with breeding potatoes in a field, in the frame - women working in the beds.

A woman puts potato tubers in a wooden box.

Women work in a potato field, carrying boxes with potatoes.

Field, in the frame - potato tubers on the ground.

Lebedeva and her daughter work in the field - weighing tubers, writing down the results, etc.

Lebedeva is sitting on a box, making notes in a notebook.

Work in a potato field is shown, in the frame - Lebedeva and her daughter Vera.

Panorama of the field, a rowan bush with red berries.

A greenhouse, in the frame Lebedeva and Vera, examining dried potato bushes.

Lebedeva smiles, examining small tubers.

Large - small seed tubers are placed in a pot.

Large - Lebedeva's hand is writing on a piece of paper.

Lebedeva and her daughter Vera are working in a greenhouse.

A cat is walking past pots with potatoes.

A village, wooden houses, Lebedeva is walking along a path.