Against the Current (A Plant That Isn't Needed) (1988)

An image enlarged under a microscope - the simplest living organisms are moving.

Winter, a forest, a man walks along a clearing, comes to a river.

Panorama of a frozen river, trees, the camera moves away - a canal, a lock are visible, water is flowing.

The courthouse, a corridor.

The courtroom, in the frame - the defendant Zhuravlev.

Zhuravlev answers the judge's questions, sits down on the bench.

The defendant Brega gets up - answers the judge's questions.

Huge streams of water flood and destroy metal structures.

Workers are walking, builders in helmets.

Streams of water fall down, destruction from the elements is visible.

A helicopter flight over the forests.

Fires in the forests, a panorama of the flames.

A wild hare is darting around the clearing.

Smoke, fire in the forest.

Panorama of the chimneys of the plant - white smoke is coming out.

In the frame - the building of the plant - a drawing of a black face on the facade.

An image enlarged under a microscope - the process of microbiological synthesis is underway.

Buildings and territory of the chemical plant, panorama of pipes, structures, etc.

Large - a loose mixture is mixed with a spatula.

A package with a biological additive is moving on a conveyor.

In the frame - Bykov V.A., former director of the Kirishi biochemical plant.

Bykov at a meeting, in the center of the table.

A delegation with officials, management at the Kirishi plant, a panorama of the plant's territory.

In the frame - Bykov V.A., first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU Romanov G.V. Panorama of the territory of the Kirishi biochemical plant.

There is a stele - "All-Union Komsomol shock construction site of Kirishi".

Panorama of a field, dug up frozen ground, a view of a reservoir with waste water, garbage, waste.

A man opens paper bags, sorts through the mixture inside in his hands.

Railroad tracks, a panorama of a ravine, a ditch, waste boards (in the distance you can see pipes and buildings of a chemical plant.

A man is speaking - he is talking about his colleagues who fell ill because of the hazardous production.

A group of men and women with children are sitting.

A man shows his little daughter, tells how he carried her to the doctor.

Women are talking, talking about their children's illnesses.

General shot - people with children are sitting in the hall, reporters are present, a man is speaking.

A view of a ditch with waste water, smoking factory chimneys are in the background.

June 1987 - a rally in Kirishi about the current situation at the plant.

People are speaking from the podium.

A view of a crowd of people, in the frame there is a poster - "Let the children live".

A man reads from the podium at the microphone a list of diseases that have been identified in local residents due to the toxic waste of the plant.

In the frame - children are playing on the stage.

People at the rally, a police cordon.

On the stage there are two young people with a poster "Remove BHZ".

The crowd of people votes unanimously - everyone raises their hands to close the plant and bring Bykov to trial.

A group of people in the semi-darkness, watching the footage.

A rally, representatives of the administration, the management of the plant speak at the microphone, a panorama of a crowd of people at the rally.

An elderly veteran with medals at the microphone.

A group of people, watching the footage from the rally on a white screen.

A local resident speaks emotionally at the microphone, a little girl stands next to her and cries.

A view of people at the rally.

A panorama of a huge crowd of people at the rally (shot from above).

A young woman speaks at the microphone, people applaud.

Panorama of the plant's pipes and structures.

The frame shows pipes and valves.

A special commission seals the pipes and equipment, and stops the supply of paraffin through the pipes.

A man says that he is shutting off the supply of paraffin, which is necessary for growing protein, and says that the plant will stop working for a while.

This process is filmed on camera, and the man is asked questions by reporters.

Close-up - A closed and sealed pipe.

Panorama of the plant's territory, buildings, pipes, and a single-track railway.

The frame shows the commission talking to reporters, filming is in progress.

Plant pipes (bottom-up view).

View of the commission, plant workers, and reporters (shot from above).

The film crew is in a dark room, reviewing the footage.

Faces of the film crew.

A man near a projector, showing the footage he has shot.

A representative of the plant is speaking.

Black and white footage - a rally, a demonstration of local residents against a working chemical plant.

People are walking, holding posters and banners.

Large - the newspaper "Vechernyaya Kazan".

Fragments from articles about chemical plants, hazardous production, etc. are shown (including about the Kazan Chemical Plant).

Moscow, Red Square - people are walking, the frame shows the Kremlin wall, Spasskaya Tower, St.

Basil's Cathedral.

A man in a telephone booth is talking on the phone.

VDNKh, the entrance to pavilion 69 (a modern building with a glass wall and an oval arch) - a group of people are standing on the steps.

A man tells reporters about the difficult environmental situation in Pavlodar, shows pictures from space that were published in the newspaper.

The cameraman is filming people speaking on the street.

The frame shows people from different regions who came to participate in a round table on the problems of the biochemical industry.

View of the VDNKh territory, parked buses, a group of people are standing near the entrance to the pavilion.

Round table in the VDNKh pavilion - participants are communicating in the hall, the press, television representatives, etc. are present.

People are looking at exhibits, photographs, discussing various problems, etc.

Panorama of the hall where the round table event is taking place - participants and the press are in the frame.

Large - an enlarged image of artificial protein under a microscope.

Winter forest, road, snow - filmed from the driveway.

Panorama of a snowy plain, trees.

Water flows from a natural spring, panorama of snow, trees, an Orthodox cross is visible on a tree trunk.

Road, field (filmed from the driveway).

A car is driving along the highway, passing by the territories of factories with pipes, burning torches, etc.

Kremenchug BVK (protein and vitamin concentrate) plant - a car is entering the territory of the plant, a view of the buildings, parked cars, etc.

Large - large white letters "BVK".

Territory of the plant, panorama of the treatment facilities.

A commission is walking around the territory.

An employee of the control service (from the commission) is speaking.

Panorama of the sky, tree crowns (shot from the driveway).

View of smoking chimneys, burning torches on the territory of the plant (shot from the driveway).

The car is driving along the highway, smoke and burning torches are visible from the window.

A village near the BVK plant - in the frame of a wooden administrative building, a UAZ is parked, the correspondent is talking to a local resident.

The man is talking about how piglets are dying because of the waste from the plant.

Close-up - chemical industry waste in the field, some kind of white porous substance.

Twilight, the plant grounds - view of smoking chimneys.

Dawn, Kirishi, central square.

The frame shows a construction site - a crane lifts and carries a load, builders work.

A ravine, there are remnants of snow - a panorama of boards, garbage, waste, a narrow-gauge railway.

The territory of a biochemical plant - a panorama of pipes.

The frame shows smoking chimneys of the plant, a panorama of a drainage ditch.

The river bank, a stump, a view of the river.

A field, wastewater.

A man whose child died due to the effects of poisoning by harmful industrial waste is speaking.

A group of people walks through the interior of the plant - pipes, valves, equipment, etc. are visible in the frame.

A plant employee tells reporters about the production, invites them to go into the workshop.

View from the windows of the plant territory, pipes, structures, etc.

The plant workshop, in the frame - equipment.

A plant employee tells the film crew about the process of producing food protein.

Panorama of the plant territory, pipes, building bodies - filmed from the windows of the workshop.

Slow motion - a white substance (protein).

A street in a village, a truck (van shop) is driving along the road.

Local residents are standing near the car.

In the frame - bags with special additives from the BVK plant.

A man advertises his products, urges residents to take additives for fattening piglets.

In the frame - bags with products with company logos.

Close-up - piglets on a farm.

Pigs, piglets in a pen.

A sow with small piglets, in the yard of the farm.

An employee of the BVK plant talks to reporters - she talks about the absolute safety and harmlessness of their products.

Close-up - a sow in the grass.

A villager who raises piglets is speaking.

A pack of special biological additives (yeast) appears against the background of the BVK plant territory.

Winter landscape, snow, view of the river, a train (freight train) passes in the distance.

Panorama of a ravine, a river mouth, spilled sewage.

A small hall, amateur performance - employees of the sanitary service (reading poems on the topic of ecology, clean nature, singing to the accordion).

Panorama of a snowy field, plain, forest, etc. - shot from above, from an airplane.

Panorama of a field with power transmission towers - shot from the driveway, from a train window.

Various winter landscapes from a train window.