Ten minutes before the bell (1972)

Young people, 10th-grade graduates of Leningrad School No. 135, discuss their future adult life, the concept of an "adult," and their plans for the future (synchronously).

Birch branches, a school window.

A birch tree against the background of an old house wall.

A birch tree against the background of a school building wall.

Faces of 10th-grade students preparing for a geometry exam.

Young men and women at their desks listening to the teacher.

Faces of students during biology and literature lessons, the teacher's voice is heard off-screen.

Students begin to write in their notebooks.

School bags standing on the floor near their desks.

Students writing down their homework.

Faces of young men and women.

Panorama of part of the classroom, view from the window onto the opposite balcony, an elderly woman on the balcony feeding a canary in a cage.

Future graduates discuss "easy" and "difficult" offenses, quarrels, their personal experiences in relationships with other people, the possibility of forgiving offenses, human duplicity, the need to remain yourself (synchronously).

Pedestrians and motor vehicles on the streets of Leningrad.

People cross the road at a crosswalk.

Faces of passers-by on the streets of the city, a girl drinks water from a glass.

Graduates assemble an electrical circuit during laboratory work, discuss the operation of the assembled circuit, faces of young men, the process of soldering parts. 10th-grade students dance at a disco, faces of dancing young men and women, a drummer plays a drum kit.

Young men and women during a school dance evening, faces of people dancing in pairs.

The face of a girl standing by the wall.

Young men and women during a school dance evening, faces of those dancing in pairs.

Faces of young men and women during a school performance.

Fragment of the performance.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War during a meeting of fellow soldiers.

Faces of veterans searching for comrades in arms, veterans who met talk to each other.

An elderly woman stands with a bouquet of flowers.

Veterans hug each other during a meeting.

Fragment of a school performance about the Great Patriotic War.

Young men and women talk about their relatives - participants of the Great Patriotic War, discuss death in war (synchronously).

Faces of young men and women - future graduates of school # 135. Graduates with teachers in the school yard.

Graduates gather on the porch of the school to take pictures, faces of graduates (panorama).

Graduates in a class at their desks during a class meeting, faces of young men and women discussing plans for the future, laughing.

One of the graduates answers the class teacher's questions about his plans to enter college, faces of young men and women.

Faces of graduates during a class hour dedicated to life in the future, students answer the class teacher's questions off-screen, arguing.

Young men and women talk about the reasons for choosing their future profession (synchronously and off-screen), faces of classmates.

Birch leaves on branches.

Faces of young men and women.

A balcony in a residential building opposite the school, an open classroom window, empty desks.