A word about one Russian mother (1966)

A panorama from a helicopter: meadows, a river, a plowed field – cf. (summer).

An old woman, Epistimia Fedorovna Stepanova, stands and looks into the distance – cf.

Summer.

Words about mother by A. Dovzhenko.

The tops of trees illuminated by the sun – cf.

A panorama.

Morning fog in the village – cf.

A panorama over the lake – cf.

Sparrows on telegraph wires – cf.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Fascist planes fly, drop bombs.

Explosions on the ground.

Village and city houses burn.

German soldiers march through the fields.

Evacuation of the rural population.

Relatives see soldiers off to the front. E.F. Stepanova – cf.

A panorama of her arms (sitting on the boulevard under a tree in Rostov-on-Don, where she lives with her daughter Valentina).

Photo of young E.F. Stepanova – kr.

Photographs of Stepanova’s sons: Nikolai, Vasily, Filipp, Ivan, Ilya, Pavel, Alexander – kr.

Soldiers’ letters are lying around – kr, cf.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Retreating soldiers are walking across a field, leading a wounded man; women are giving soldiers milk to drink.

Airplanes are flying over.

Winter, snowstorm.

Horses are pulling a cannon.

Soldiers are pulling horses and a car out of the water, building a crossing.

Soldiers’ letters – general, cf., Poland.

The Stepanovs’ house in the village.

A well.

Pigeons on the roof – cf. (summer).

House in winter – cf.

Summer: boys with fishing rods are running to the river, on the river – general.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Ashes on Soviet territory liberated from the occupiers (stove chimneys) – Poland.

A woman takes baked bread out of a surviving oven (outside).

A woman threshes grain by hand.

They are building a hut.

A woman ploughs the land with the help of a cow.

Three men sow by hand.

A woman works in a vegetable garden.

Soviet soldiers pass by on the road.

A surgeon performs an operation in a hospital.

The wounded are in their wards.

A woman is at the bedside of a wounded man.

Tanks are moving.

Newsreel 1941-1945: The advance of Soviet troops, liberation of Ukrainian territory, crossing of the Dnieper.

Ukrainian SSR, Cherkasy region, near Kanev: summer evening landscape of the Dnieper – general.

Mass grave and monument where Hero of the Soviet Union Senior Lieutenant Alexander Mikhailovich Stepanov, the youngest son of E.F. Stepanova, is buried.

Inscription on the tombstone – general (winter and summer).

Village on the bank of the Dnieper – general (with military equipment, winter).

Arable land and flowering trees – general (spring).

Residents greet E.F. Stepanova and her daughter Valentina, go to Alexander’s grave.

Funeral meeting.

Speakers.

Pioneers and residents with wreaths and flowers at the grave. E.F. Stepanova at the grave, her face – general.

A panorama from the grave to the monument: a soldier with a rifle raised – short (summer).

The sun is shot through the clouds – short.

Autumn landscapes of the Dnieper and other rivers in bad weather: the raging Dnieper, the reeds trembling in the wind – medium, general, short.

Photographs of E.F. Stepanova’s fallen sons: Alexander, Fyodor, Nikolai, Vasily, Ivan, Filipp, Ilya, Pavel.

A monument to a Soviet soldier in Treptower Park in Berlin – medium, short, zoom in.

Blossoming branches of apple trees – general (with movement).

Newsreel from 1945: Meetings of Soviet soldiers demobilized after the end of the war with their families and friends.

Epistimia Fyodorovna cries, telling how she waited for her sons (synchronously) – short.

Two monuments to fallen Soviet soldiers in the area of the Battle of Oryol–Kursk – kr., cf.

Grass-covered craters and trenches – kr., cf.

Mass grave and monuments to fallen soldiers – kr., cf.

E.F. Stepanova, leaving the house, crosses herself to the church – general; talking to a child at the entrance to the house – general.

Children are playing on the boulevard and by the fountain – general. E.F. Stepanova is in one of the windows of the house, watering flowers – general.

Stepanova’s daughter Valentina Mikhailovna and her husband are sorting through letters sent to their mother – general. E.F. Stepanova listens to her granddaughter Zina play the piano, sews something – general, medium; hands – cr; looks out the window – cr.

Rostov – general. (with h/t). E.F. Stepanova is walking with her granddaughter along the street of the city – general. (summer).

The Pervomaysky farm is Stepanova’s birthplace, they run over her hut – general, cr.

A dog on a chain in the yard, joyfully greeting its owner – general. E.F. Stepanova enters the yard – general, cr.

A run-over of the door of the hut – Wed, Poland.

Pigeons on the chimney of the hut – Wed. E.F. Stepanova looks into the well, moves away, walks through the garden, inspects her native places – general, Wed.

Haystacks in the field – general, Poland.

A road going into the distance – general. E.F. Stepanova greets the farmstead residents, relatives, everyone enters the hut – general, Wed. E.F. Stepanova in the hut surrounded by relatives and friends, children – Wed, general.

A festive table in the courtyard of the Stepanovs' hut – the 90th anniversary of Epistimia Fyodorovna's birthday is being celebrated.

There are guests at the table. E.F. Stepanova is congratulated by sailors, representatives of public organizations, relatives, the farmstead residents present gifts – general, Wed. E.F. Stepanova at the festive table – general, cr, wed.

The assembled people are taking pictures.

Newspapers with articles about the Stepanov family and its portrait – panorama, cr, wed.

Envelopes with letters – panorama, general, departure. E.F. Stepanova is standing in the field – cr, wed.