They (2007)

B/W image - a scene, the curtain opens, a color image of space, galaxies, stars, etc. appears.

Chronicle of the 20-30s.

Quarry, a man with a wheelbarrow, a hammer hitting a stone.

Village, huts standing in a row.

Mill blades.

A peasant in a field, plowing the land with a plough and a horse.

A bearded man with a scythe.

Peasants mow wheat, women gather sheaves.

Haymaking.

Smiling girls in headscarves ride by on a cart.

Close-up - hands take grain from a sack.

Peasants in a field with ploughs, plowing the land.

Field, windmill blades spinning.

Workshop, mechanics, turners working.

Factory, workshop, workers throw coal into the furnace.

Hot, molten metal Top view of the factory territory, pipes, iron structures, etc. in the square.

Factory workshop, machines, etc.

Factory, chimneys, smoke.

Chronicle of the 1910-1920s - the area near the factory, workers in the frame.

A bearded man in a cap.

Peasants on the porch, at the table, drinking tea.

A field, explosions are heard.

Hay and sheaves are burning.

World War I, in the frame, soldiers in iron helmets are walking along the road.

Trenches, fortifications, soldiers with rifles are running.

View from above - an attack, cavalry and infantry in the frame.

Battle, soldiers with rifles are running into the attack.

Bayonet attack.

Trench, a soldier carries a wounded comrade on his shoulders.

An officer at the front awards soldiers with medals.

Emperor Nicholas II comes out of a wooden hut, greets the officers, in the frame a man in civilian clothes with a beard.

View from above - a panorama of fields, trees.

In the frame an old peasant with a white beard.

A building damaged by an explosion, a train.

In the frame, fragments of iron structures.

A burnt-out station, smoke, debris, etc.

The inscription on the flag - "Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood".

Leaflets are being distributed from a truck, in the frame there is a crowd of soldiers, people in civilian clothes.

In the frame there is Kerensky, people from the crowd next to him are waving their caps.

In the frame there is a rally, a demonstration, people are holding a banner "Down with the capitalist ministers".

Soldiers and sailors with flags in Petrograd.

In the frame there is a man in a Cossack uniform, with a beard - speaking at a rally.

In the frame there are rallies, anarchists, Socialist Revolutionaries and others are speaking.

Lenin is giving a speech to people at the walls of the Kremlin.

A station, a platform, train cars - newspapers and leaflets are being thrown out of the windows, peasants and soldiers are standing on the platform.

A cavalry detachment, flags.

In the frame there are bearded Red Army soldiers.

Among the Red Army soldiers there is a man in a papakha and a dressing gown.

The soldiers are looking at a poster with a caricature of the tsar and laughing.

A Red Army soldier in a papakha on a horse.

A peasant man is holding a handful of grain in his hands.

A peasant woman is wearing a headscarf.

Peasant women are working in the field.

The frame shows peasants.

Lunch is being prepared in the field.

A child is in a wooden cradle in the field.

The frame shows a peasant in a cap.

A small boy is in a wooden cart.

Wooden mills.

Destroyed houses, ruins.

The frame shows street children.

Boys are smoking and pushing each other.

The street children are being fed soup.

The frame shows peasant tools.

Peasants are working in the field, the frame shows ploughs and horses.

The frame shows the first caterpillar tractor, peasants with ploughs, etc.

A peasant is sowing and scattering seeds.

A peasant is repairing tools.

Women are working in the field, stacking sheaves.

A small child is lying on a cart on the hay.

Children are playing in the hay.

Chronicle of the 1920s - the word "LENIN" in the sky from airplanes.

Lenin's funeral, winter, a huge crowd in the frame.

In the frame is Nadezhda Krupskaya.

People at the funeral.

Lenin in a coffin.

Stalin at Lenin's funeral.

The Bolshoi Theater, people in the boxes applauding.

View of the boxes, the hall of the Bolshoi Theater.

Stalin speaks from the rostrum, people in the hall applaud.

Chronicle of the 1920-1930s - workers in a quarry, working with pickaxes, carrying wheelbarrows with earth, digging.

View of a huge quarry, in the frame are bridges, workers with wheelbarrows, etc.

An orator speaks from the rostrum, talking about enemies of the people.

Convicts are in the frame.

A woman is making an indictment in a factory workshop, female workers are standing nearby.

Stalin is in the frame - he says, "Life has become better, comrades, life has become more fun..." Chronicle of the 1930s - logging, felling trees.

A large hut, men working inside, writing, drawing, etc.

Title pages of books "Explorations of World Spaces" and others.

A labor camp, a crowd of men walking.

A peasant woman in a headscarf looks through binoculars and smiles.

The frame shows a smiling woman in a headscarf.

A parade of athletes, in the frame there are girls in tights with flags.

A parade of athletes on Red Square.

Stalin, Gorky, Kalinin on the tribune.

Children in tights at the parade.

Athletes with flags march on Red Square.

Close-up - their legs can barely move along the sidewalk.

A man drinks vodka from a bottle.

In the frame, drunk people drinking vodka.

Drunk men.

Silhouettes - a rally, demonstration, flags, banners.

Winter, members of the government on the tribune of the mausoleum.

In the frame there is a demonstration, rally, etc.

Spotlights.

A man crosses himself, bows.

In the frame, a clergyman with a cross on his chest is crossing himself.

Believers, parishioners - crossing themselves, bowing.

In the frame there is a temple, believers.

People crossing themselves.

St.

Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

Bell tower, ringing the bell.

Demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, in the frame there is an explosion, the collapse of the building.

Ruins on the site of the temple.

A fresco icon on the wall of the destroyed temple.

A man in the temple hits the wall with a hammer.

In the frame there are peasants, men.

A bell is thrown from the bell tower.

Men smash the bell with a hammer.

Faces of men, women.

Peasants in the field, in the frame there are carts with horses.

People with shovels, working in a quarry.

A man with a flag gives the command.

Explosion, rock collapses.

Excavator in a quarry.

Workers in a quarry.

A man with a jackhammer.

All-Union construction site, factories, enterprises, etc. are being built.

Various plans with workers at the construction site.

Construction of a hydroelectric power station (panorama of the construction site).

Water flows at a hydroelectric power station.

The frame shows the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

A crowd of men in black pea coats and caps is walking.

The frame shows factories, enterprises, workers, metallurgists at work, metal is melting, the frame shows a steel foundry workshop.

Steelmakers at work.

Streams of hot metal.

A steel foundry workshop.

A crowd of workers in the square (view from above).

The factory workshop, machines, parts, etc.

Work in the workshop is shown.

The frame shows peasants, collective farmers.

Tractors are working in the field, plowing the land.

Women in the field, tying sheaves.

A small child.

Women after work in the field.

Collective farmers at a wooden table, having lunch.

The frame shows a tractor in the field, a thresher, a combine.

Collective farmers are working in the field.

The frame shows grain.

Women are raking grain with shovels.

Grain in their hands.

The frame shows a mill, tractors are passing by.

Mill blades.

Field, fire, burning hay, sheaves, etc.

Chronicle 1941 - Germans, fascists, soldiers with weapons.

German plane in the sky.

In the frame German soldiers, a tank.

Captured Soviet soldiers, wounded.

In the frame a German officer.

A German soldier is awarded the Iron Cross.

Captured Soviet soldiers are walking along the road.

Various shots of prisoners surrendering, etc.

Soviet soldiers.

Chronicle 1041-1945. Mine, coal face, coal mining, female miner, coal mine.

Factory, workshop workers throw coal into the furnace.

Steelmakers work.

Factory workshops, machine tools, etc.

A tank is being assembled in the workshop.

Tankers leave the workshop in a new tank.

Soldiers install shells on anti-aircraft mounts.

Salvo shots from "Katyushas".

Shots, explosions.

Air battle.

Shots from mortar launchers, Katyusha rockets.

View of the battlefield, smoke and shots in the frame.

Scarecrow with a German helmet and Iron Cross.

Relatives greet soldiers returning from the front. 1945 parade on Red Square.

In the frame, military personnel, officers with awards.

Airplane in the sky, soldiers on a cart, views of the destroyed city.

Destroyed building.

Peasant woman in a headscarf, crying.

Destroyed city, smoke, ruins.

Clearing rubble, books in the frame.

Title pages of the books "Explorations of World Spaces".

Clearing rubble, people taking out books.

The inscription on the wall "Death to Hitler".

Destroyed factory.

Destroyed Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.

In the frame, a destroyed German tank, men plowing a field on oxen.

A collective farmer sows, scatters seeds.

A woman plowing a field, a little boy running nearby.

Collective farmers at agricultural work, sowing, scattering seeds in the field.

Restoration of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

In the frame, the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, streams of water.

Chronicle of the 1950s - airplanes in the sky (GLORY TO STALIN).

Stalin's funeral in 1953, in the frame, wreaths at the Kremlin wall.

People cry in the crowd, at Stalin's funeral.

Panorama of the crowd of people.

In the frame, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev.

Khrushchev speaks from the rostrum.

In the frame, workers.

Khrushchev speaks.

Plant workshop, machines.

Combines work in the field, harvesting underway.

Metallurgical plant, workshop, steelmaking.

In the frame, machines, equipment, etc.

Faces of workers.

A designer assembling an artificial satellite.

Steel foundry, molten metal in the frame.

Color photography - metallurgical plant, hot metal, steelmakers at work.

Streams of hot metal.

A designer assembling an artificial satellite.

Fire, a jet engine, launching a space rocket.

A rocket in the sky, passing through the layers of the atmosphere.

Black and white newsreel - a radar station, an antenna, receiving a signal.

A small child in a wooden cart in the yard.

A man with a beard in a cap.

Girls in headscarves on a cart.

Street children.

Peasants, workers, prisoners, etc.

Relatives greet soldiers returning from the front.

Victory Parade in 1945. Faces of peasants.

Color photography - silhouettes of three cosmonauts.

Image of space, galaxies, stars.

The curtain closes.