The offseason (1986)

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

People get out of the cars of the electric train.

The people who got out of the cars answer questions about their place of work in Moscow and residence in the settlements of the Moscow region, about the reasons for working in the city, about the reluctance to work in the village because of the small choice of specialties and unstable earnings, the best working conditions at urban enterprises (synchronously).

People are walking along the platform.

Rural landscape.

Production processes in the utility shop of the collective farm electrozhgutov.

Michurina of 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 a collective farm, household and social conditions (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Winders and installers at work.

Winter rural landscape (panorama).

An icicle hanging from the roof.

Chopped firewood in the yard.

A cat in the snow.

The girl's face.

Panorama of the village of the collective farm.

Michurina.

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

Production processes in the woodworking shop.

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

Production processes in auxiliary workshops.

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

Michurina.

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

Deserted village houses, it's snowing, a winter rural landscape, a rural store building (panorama).

People walk along the platform of the Belorussky railway station.

The faces of the people answering the questions of the authors of the film.

Repair of tractors in a collective farm workshop.

View of a rural street in winter.

View of the part of the river freed from ice (from above).

Milkmaids prepare milking equipment for milking.

Serov talks about the impossibility for milkmaids to go on vacation 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 auxiliary workshops of the collective farm.

Michurina, the faces of the workers.

An employee of the electrozhgutov shop, G.A. Ostroshapkina, talks about the reasons for the transition from a dairy farm to a utility shop, periodic work on the farm (synchronously).

Panorama of a part of the workshop.

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

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

Types of sewing workshop, production process, faces of female workers.

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

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

Deputy General Director of the NGO "2nd Moscow Watch Factory" N.A. Zakalov talks about the benefits of cooperation with the collective farm "Russia", strengthening the production ties of 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 NGO "2nd Moscow Watch Factory".

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

Construction of an individual house in the village.

View of the winter village street, panorama of residential buildings in the collective farm named after.

Michurina of the Gorky region.

Entrance to the building of the collective farm board.

The chairman of the collective farm Serov speaks about the difficulties in establishing the development of subsidiary crafts in rural areas due to the unwillingness of individual managers to take responsibility for their work (synchronously).

The head of the auxiliary shop Pukhov speaks about the unwillingness of managers to engage in cooperation of farms with industrial enterprises (synchronously).

View of a rural power line section.

The faces of people answering the questions of the authors of the film on the platform of the Belorussky railway station.

People are walking along the platform.

Panorama of a forest and a snow-covered field.