The film tells about the International Pipe Smoking Championship held in St. Petersburg in 2007.
Saint Petersburg, World Pipe Smoking Championship - panorama of the hall, championship participants sitting at tables, chatting, applauding, etc.
In the frame - the faces of the participants, men and women in straw hats.
Participants from different countries are shown, men in funny headdresses.
A man in a baseball cap with badges winks and waves his hand.
In the frame - a man in a black hat and other championship participants.
Large - an electronic scoreboard "0.00".
Large - the name of the event in English.
The service personnel hand out boxes with pipes and smoking accessories, tobacco and matches to the participants.
Large - a hand filling a pipe with tobacco.
Large 0 hands cleaning a pipe with a special brush.
Large - a pipe in hands.
Championship participants at a table with pipes.
A man in glasses crushing tobacco.
Participants at a table, filling pipes with tobacco.
Large - hands crushing and rubbing tobacco.
Large - a special piece of wood (tamper) is used to tamp tobacco into a pipe.
Large - tobacco is packed into a pipe.
A woman in a hat fills a pipe with tobacco and lights it.
An electronic scoreboard turns on and the countdown begins.
The championship participants light their pipes and light their smokes (various shots of men and women smoking pipes).
Panorama of the ceiling, the hall, people sitting at tables and smoking pipes.
Men smoke pipes and tamp tobacco with a tamper.
Various shots of men smoking pipes.
A girl lights a pipe.
Various shots of men smoking pipes.
Large - smoke coming out of a smoking pipe.
A photographer photographs the championship participants in the hall.
Image of old geographical maps.
Old paintings, engravings, drawings - images of ancient Moscow, views of the city, churches, a fortress wall, portraits of Ivan IV the Terrible, Alexei Mikhailovich, etc.
Various portraits of Peter I, views of young St.
Petersburg, the Neva, the embankment, ships, palaces, houses, etc.
The picture shows a scene of punishment (whipping a woman).
Various old drawings and engravings - views of St.
Petersburg, the sea, ships.
Portrait of Peter I. Statue "The Bronze Horseman".
Gilded figurine with highlanders smoking a pipe.
Tobacco shop, panorama of shelves with tobacco, various smoking accessories, jars, boxes, etc.
Close-up - computer monitor, table with product names in the frame.
Close-up - hand with computer mouse.
Close-up - decorative pillow on sofa with image of smoking pipe.
Woman - tobacco seller speaking.
Smoking pipes on the shelf.
Female seller speaking.
B/W drawings - comic, caricature images of men with pipes.
Female seller speaking.
Close-up - smoking pipes (of various shapes, sizes, etc.).
A smoking pipe in the form of a man's head, etc.
A gilded figurine of highlanders smoking a pipe.
A female salesperson is speaking.
The phone rings, the woman interrupts the conversation, answers the call, takes the customer's order for tobacco.
A pipe smoking championship, people at tables, lighting pipes, etc.
In the frame, people are standing smoking pipes.
A girl is lighting a pipe.
Various shots of people smoking at tables, men and women smoking pipes, drinking water, etc.
A woman in a hat takes a long time to light a pipe.
The electronic scoreboard shows "31 minutes".
A man in a funny hat with bells is walking through the hall to the exit.
Participants whose pipes have gone out gradually leave the hall with the tables.
People in the hall are applauding, banging on the tables with tampers, photographers are in the frame, etc.
In the frame, a woman in a red sweater with a badge on her chest.
Various shots of participants leaving the hall who have dropped out of the competition.
Panorama of a half-empty hall, tables, and the few remaining participants.
The electronic scoreboard shows "46 minutes".
The black and white drawings depict a gallows and an executioner.
Animated insert - a little man smoking a pipe before his execution (alternating with drawings of the gallows and the sleeping executioner).
In the frame - an image from a computer (the website of an online tobacco store, a smokers' forum, in the frame there are pipes, tobacco, photographs of people with pipes, etc.).
A man with glasses and a beard is speaking.
Panorama of pipes, tobacco pouches lying on the table.
A man with glasses and a beard is speaking.
Close-up - a smoking pipe.
A man with glasses and a beard is speaking.
Panorama of a shelf in a room on which a collection of smoking pipes is displayed.
Close-up - different pipes from the collection are shown.
Close-up - hands are opening cases, demonstrating pipes.
In the frame - a white pipe, a pipe in the form of a man's face and other types of rare exotic pipes.
The pipes are in wicker boxes.
Archival footage from the 1920s and 1930s - residents of the Far North smoking pipes, a man processing deer antlers in a pasture and smoking a pipe, female typists at work, typing and smoking small pipes, a woman sweeping the ground in front of her house and smoking a pipe, ladies at a table in a cafe smoking pipes, a small factory workshop, workers at their machines, women in a workshop producing smoking pipes, a black woman smoking a pipe in the street (freeze frame).
Various old photographs of celebrities, writers, etc. with pipes.
A selection of various photographs and portraits of people smoking pipes (celebrities and ordinary people).
A meeting of pipe smokers - people walking around the room, looking at the pipes and tobacco displayed on the tables, smoking, talking.
Various shots with people.
Close-up - smoking pipes on the table.
Various shots of people with pipes.
Close-up - a hand holding a bag of tobacco.
People with pipes - foreigners, compatriots, communicate, smoke, look at tobacco, walk around the room, etc.
Sculpture of a mermaid with a horn.
Close-up - briar (a growth on the root of heather).
A pipe maker is speaking.
The maker holds a pipe in his hands, there are other pipes on the table nearby.
A machine in the maker's workshop.
A pipe maker is speaking.
Close-up - a pomegranate fruit, a pipe lies nearby, a hand takes pomegranate seeds.
Close-up - hands grease pipe blanks with pomegranate juice.
Close-up - a briar smoking pipe (shot from different angles).
Close-up - a horn-shaped smoking pipe.
Close-up - pipe blanks on the table.
A pipe maker is speaking.
A sign on a house - "Stool Restaurant".
A meeting of the Moscow "Tabak Collegiya" club - men clink glasses and goblets at a restaurant table, smoking pipes.
Close-up - a man lighting a pipe.
Close-up - beer being poured from a jug into a glass.
Club members hug, greet each other, chat, smoke pipes, etc.
A club member is speaking.
Panorama of the table - there are glasses, bottles of alcohol, pipes, tobacco, dishes, etc. are visible.
In the frame, a man at the table, holding a pipe in his hands.
A club member is speaking.
Club members at the table, clinking glasses.
A club member is speaking.
Restaurant interior, panorama of people at the table, chatting, smoking pipes, drinking.
Close-up - a man with a camera, taking pictures.
The inscription on the screen - "Smoking is harmful to your health".
A half-empty hall where the pipe smoking championship is being held - the few remaining participants are in the frame.
Various shots of people smoking a pipe in the hall.
The electronic scoreboard shows the time "1 hour 49 minutes".
In the frame, the leaders of the championship are a participant from Switzerland and a young Italian.
A Swiss man with a pipe lights it and tamps it with a tamper.
An Italian man lights his pipe.
In large print - the electronic scoreboard shows the time as "2:22".
A Swiss man at a table lights his pipe.
In large print - the face of an Italian participant with a pipe.
The Swiss and the Italian are drinking water.
In large print - the face of a fan, applause is heard, and the winner of the championship is determined.
The organizers congratulate the Swiss man on his second place, people applaud, hug the Swiss man, and a Swiss flag is placed next to him.
The Italian man continues to light and smoke his pipe until he drops out of the race.
The Italian makes his last attempts to light his pipe, then says that he is done.
The organizers, judges, fans and other participants congratulate the winner, applaud, etc.
The scoreboard shows the time as "2:54".
The winner of the championship is congratulated and hugged.
The frame shows the awarding of the winner of the championship.
On stage are the winners of 1st and 2nd places, organizers, etc.
A Swiss participant poses with female models for a photo.
The awarding of other participants of the championship is shown - people accept awards, congratulate each other, hug, applaud, etc.
Large - the name of the event in English.
Large - a smoking pipe on the table.
Smoking, pipe, tobacco, Pipe Smoking Championship, tobacco shop, pipe collectors, manufacturing of smoking pipes
1920-1930
Saint Petersburg