Reflection on mercy (1991)

A column of cars is driving through the streets of Leningrad.

The train is traveling on the rails.

Train compartment, portrait of A.D. Sakharov.

Interview with the chairman of the Council of the "Order of Mercy and Social Protection named after A. D. Sakharov" E. Poplavskaya.

The mercy train.

Lighting of the land for planting trees.

People are planting trees.

A train is coming.

Ambulance at the train.

Volunteers load food from the train to the car.

View from the train.

Portrait of Poplavskaya in a train compartment.

Vintage photos.

An old photo - children playing on balalaika.

Charity lunch, pre-revolutionary photography.

Women's benefactors sew clothes.

The hospital with the sisters of Mercy.

I. G. Vasilyeva is walking around the city.

Interview with Isolda Germanovna Vasilyeva.

Vasilyeva buys groceries.

Vasilyeva helps a lonely old woman.

Vasilyeva goes home, sits and remembers the wartime.

A car convoy is traveling through the city.

The car convoy arrives at the place.

The cars brought foreign aid.

Soldiers unload cars.

Charity food distribution.

Hospice in Leningrad.

A. Gnezdilov collects water on the column, brings water into the house.

An ambulance is driving past a wooden house.

A sign on the wall of the house.

Hospice corridors.

The interior of the chambers.

A vase with flowers.

The room with the piano, in which A. gives an interview.

Gnezdilov.

A ward filled with patients.

Interview with a sick girl.

A photo of a loved one.

The staff is celebrating a birthday.

Gnezdilov plays the physical harmony.

View of the surrounding area from the train.

Interview with E. Poplavskaya.

A train is coming.