The film is about the chairman of the Lenin Collective Farm A. Popov who defended his village, where his village-mate Voronin died, from fascists during the Great Patriotic War (Soviet people’s participation in World War II in 1941-1945).
Belgorod region. The collective farm named after Lenin. Landscapes surrounding villages. Graze horses. Dogs, cats, chickens on the streets. Chairman farm AB Popov at work, chatting with the collective farmers. Kolkhoz. Women at work in the beet field. Hay. Sheep in the pasture. Monument to fallen soldiers. Cemetery. Villagers near the monument at the cemetery. Meeting. Laying flowers. Personnel Chronicle of the Second World War: burning houses, civilians from a burning building, fighting the Soviet troops, a nurse bandaging the wounded, fighting the Soviet artillery salute over the Kremlin, the children have a broken gun. Landscapes. Rain. Lightning. Sunrise and sunset. Clouds. Fog. Surrounding the village before the storm.
Rural landscapes: the fog over the country, over the meadows and woods - different. (Summer).
Cottage in the fog - LS.
The rooster crows - CU.
Awakens the dog in a kennel - CU.
Cat washes on the fence - CU.
Duck with ducklings - CU.
Pigeons on the roof.
Dark clouds in the sun - MS., LS.
Horses grazing on the banks of the river - MS., PNRM.
Haystacks on mown meadow - MS., Departure.
On the morning of the country house goes chairman collective farm.
Lenin Belgorod region Andrey Popov, a veteran of World War II.
AB Popov is a passenger car near his home.
Newsreel 1941-1945.:
The Soviet soldiers are fighting against the Nazi occupiers for the liberation of the village.
Burning village, set on fire by the Nazis, the charred corpses of people lying on the ground - LS.
A woman holding a child stands in a burning house.
AB Popov travels by car to the farm.
Pasture cows in the pasture.
The old women spun wool and flax for spinning wheels, collective farmers with songs in a truck leave for work in the fields, weed beet field (hoes).
Woman weeding hoe beets - CU., MS., PNRM.
Beet field, lying on the ground fighting the Soviet Army against the Nazi occupiers.
Newsreel 1941-1945.:
Offensive infantry and artillery on the enemy.
Nurse bandaging the wounded on the battlefield.
Due to an explosion - CU.
PNRM. on the collective farm fields and ravines, which hosted the Kursk, where he fought Captain AB Priests and ordinary Voronin - 19-year-old from Siberia.
Sheep farm collective farm.
Lenin, sheep on the farm and pastures - are different.
AB Popov on the farm.
Newsreel 1941-1945.:
Episodes of intense battle of Kursk, in Prokhorovka: shooting guns, attacking tanks.
Due to an explosion on the battlefield.
The village is in a beautiful area - LS. PNRM. (With a \ m).
Harvesters and harvest crops - LS., PNRM.
The field ripening wheat run boy and a girl.
AB Priests in the field talking to machine operators who work on the combines.
AB Popov shows craters from exploded shells, overgrown grass - CU.
Machine-stacker stacks beveled oats in the haystack - CU., MS.
Smiling young mechanic at work.
AB Priests on the field talking to the driver.
Rick slant field.
Cloudy - MS.
Ominous sky with dark clouds - CU.
Lightning in the clouds - CU.
Fireworks over Kremlin - different.
A heavy rain - different.
Branches of trees in the rain - CU.
The sun above the horizon, dark clouds in the sky.
Speeding train - passenger, freight, combined with massive disk of the sun - CU.
Newsreel of the 40-ies.:
After the end of World War II people return home: women driven wheelbarrow with belongings along the muddy, rain washed out the road and military vehicles.
Destroyed village houses and buildings, burned trees in place collective farms.
Broken military equipment in place past battles.
Poorly dressed, malnourished women and children at the hands of the Nazis returned to the burned village.
Pit, covered with weeds, the site of the destroyed shell house.
Children playing with a broken gun.
Refurbished tractor plowing a field where battles took place, where he was killed by the charging of the battery of Captain AB Popov Voronin.
AB Popov in a plowed field, holding the sleeve shell dug out of the ground the plow.
Field with ravines - LS. (The plane).
The clouds over the field - MS.
Women are on the field, they sing.
The shepherd drives a flock.
Pond overgrown with reeds - LS., PNRM.
Weeping willow over the river - CU.
Monument-tank in the field - LS.
Rickety wooden crosses in the cemetery - CU.
PNRM. the graves, the burial defenders of the Motherland.
Old people, villagers and Ozerovka Sazhnev the cemetery where soldiers are buried, the monument to the fallen in the Great Patriotic War.
Sad faces of people of all ages - CU.
Children at the monument.
Disabled veteran and a woman with a child at the monument.
AB Popov fellow at the monument.
Children lay flowers at the monument.
Field (the ravine of the field) - LS. (Helicopter).
Village - LS.