Off-season (1986)

Panorama of the complex of buildings of the Belorussky railway station in Moscow.

People get off the cars of an electric train.

The people who got off the cars answer questions about their place of work in Moscow and place of residence in the villages of the Moscow region, about the reasons for working in the city, about the unwillingness to work in the village due to the small choice of specialties and unstable earnings, better working conditions at city enterprises (synchronously).

People walk along the platform.

Rural landscape.

Production processes in the auxiliary shop of electric harnesses of the Michurin collective farm in the Gorky region.

Worker N.M. Pukhova, whose family returned from the city to the village, tells her biography, talks about the reasons for returning to the village, about working on the collective farm, living and social conditions (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Winders and assemblers at work.

Winter rural landscape (panorama).

An icicle hanging from the roof.

Chopped firewood in the yard.

A cat in the snow.

A girl's face.

Panorama of the village of the Michurin collective farm.

Michurin.

The chairman of the collective farm Serov speaks about the development of subsidiary production in the collective farm, the creation of art workshops for painting souvenirs, woodworking workshops working on a cooperative basis with enterprises of the city of Gorky, about the products manufactured in these workshops (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Production processes in the woodworking workshop.

The head of one of the workshops B. Pukhov speaks about capital investments in the construction of housing for collective farmers (synchronously).

Production processes in subsidiary workshops.

Four-story residential buildings on one of the streets of the Michurin collective farm.

Serov speaks about the shortage of apartments in residential buildings (synchronously).

Empty village houses, snow falling, winter rural landscape, building of a rural store (panorama).

People walk along the platform of the Belorussky railway station.

Faces of people answering questions from the authors of the film.

Repair of tractors in the collective farm workshop.

View of a rural street in winter.

View of a section of the river freed from ice (top).

Milkmaids prepare milking equipment for milking.

Serov talks about the impossibility for milkmaids to take vacations due to a shortage of personnel, about the reasons for people leaving for industrial enterprises (synchronously).

Panorama of a part of the winter forest.

The production process in one of the subsidiary shops of the Michurin collective farm, faces of workers.

Worker of the electrical harness shop G.A. Ostroshapkina talks about the reasons for moving from a dairy farm to a subsidiary shop, periodic work on the farm (synchronously).

Panorama of a part of the shop.

Production processes in the sewing shop of the Vinogradovsky state farm in the Moscow region.

The head of the shop L.A. Dildina talks about the profitability of the shop, the amount of profit, the retention of personnel in the village with the help of auxiliary shops, about the performance of various types of work at the state farm by the shop workers (synchronously and behind the scenes), seamstresses at work.

Views of the sewing shop, the production process, the faces of the workers.

Production processes in the cardboard shop of the Rossiya collective farm in the Moscow region.

Panorama and views of the shop, the production of cardboard cases for watches.

Deputy General Director of the 2nd Moscow Watch Plant N.A. Zakalov talks about the benefits of cooperation with the Rossiya collective farm, strengthening the production ties between the association and the collective farm, receiving packaging containers for watches from the collective farm (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Panorama of the main building of the 2nd Moscow Watch Plant.

Assembly of watches in the association's workshops, production processes, workers' faces.

Construction of an individual house in the village.

View of a winter village street, panorama of residential buildings in the Michurin collective farm in the Gorky region.

Entrance to the collective farm board building.

Chairman of the collective farm Serov talks about the difficulties in establishing subsidiary industries in the village due to the reluctance of individual managers to take responsibility for their work (synchronously).

Head of the subsidiary workshop Pukhov talks about the reluctance of managers to engage in cooperation between rural farms and industrial enterprises (synchronously).

View of a section of a rural power line.

Faces of people answering questions from the film's authors on the platform of the Belarusian railway station.

People walk along the platform.

Panorama of a forest and a snow-covered field.