Peasants (1971)

Movie №7005, 6 parts, Duration: 0:59:30
Studio CSDF (RCSDF)

Annotation:

The film tells about the work and life of Soviet peasants, and about today's problems in agriculture.

Annotation:

Farms of the Bolshevik, Kirov, Zhdanov and other collective farms in the Belgorod Region, Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine and Belarus. Mechanized agricultural work: plowing fields, harvesting grain, beets, flax, corn, vegetables and fruits. Processing vegetables and fruits at collective farm subsidiary enterprises. Women tend vegetable crops in the greenhouses of the Moskovsky state farm, located near Moscow. New, modern collective farm settlements. Palaces of culture, service centers in settlements. Livestock farms, poultry farms. Representatives of the collective farms A. V. Gorshkov, I. Pereverzev and Khvan speak (synchronously). Dust storm; consequences of the dust storm: sown fields covered with black soil, lost crops. Collective farm fields damaged by spring river floods and landslides. Planting forest belts. View of a wheat field surrounded by forest plantations. Performance by the amateur song and dance ensemble of the Kirov collective farm. The film features songs by composers V. Levashov, E. Rodygin, and folk songs.

Reel №1

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Wheat in the field – general (harassment) A grandfather and grandson are riding horses – general A village – general (summer), (from an airplane) A girl is chasing geese across the meadow – general A herd of cows is grazing in the meadow – general A flock of birds on telegraph wires, the birds are taking off – general Children are running across the meadow – general A girl is playing with a kid in the grass – general (harassment) Spring flood, a flock of birds is flying – general A fawn in the grass is getting up on its feet – general Autumn landscape of the central zone – general A flock of birds is flying – general Summer landscape of the central zone.

A girl is running across a blooming meadow – general A girl is running across a blooming poppy field – general The "Grieving Mother" monument on the site of the village of Krasukha in the Pskov region.

Clouds are covering the sun – general Newsreel 1941-1945: Germans pass through a burning Soviet village.

Armed German soldier.

Women cry by the ashes.

A stack of sheaves burns in a field - general, Poland.

A woman hugs and kisses a soldier in a village liberated from the occupiers.

Women return to the village from field work - general.

Sunset over a field and forest - general.

Faces of old village women - red.

An old peasant woman sits at home and cries.

Photographs of sons who died at the front - red.

Sunrise in the village - general (summer).

A woman gets water from a well.

A rooster crows - red. (morning) A peasant woman feeds chickens in the yard.

Summer rural landscape - general (morning) Faces of girls - red, Poland An old peasant - red.

A man washes himself in the yard over a stream of water - red.

Forest bird - red.

A dog is looking out of its kennel – ed.

Sparrows are pecking at a sunflower – ed.

In the yard of the house, women are cooking breakfast in the stove.

Employees are working in the collective farm administration: sorting papers, talking on the phone, typing on a typewriter – ed.

A truck and a horse harnessed to a cart are driving through the village.

The building of the Yubileiny department store in the central estate of the Frunze collective farm in the Belgorod region – ed.

Women are going to work at the collective farm.

Young collective farm machine operators before the start of the working day – ed., Wed.

A tractor is plowing – ed.

A tractor driver is clearing the soil from the share of a tractor plough.

A plowed field – ed. (autumn) The chairman of the Bolshevik collective farm in the Vladimir region, A.V. Gorshkov, is talking with machine operators in the arable land.

Tractors are working in the field.

Hands are holding grains of wheat – ed.

Newsreel from the 1920s: Peasants sow grain in a field by hand.

The first collective farmers to start working on a common field – general, Poland.

Industrial landscape: a metallurgical plant – general.

The first tractor in a village; peasants with slogans and flags walk through the village, accompany the tractor into the field – general.

A tractor with a portrait of V. I. Lenin passes by – general.

Processing hot metal at one of the plants – general, red.

Combine harvesters harvesting – general.

A train with trucks passes by.

Trucks pass along the road – general.

A train with combine harvesters passes by – general.

Tank trucks with milk on the way – general.

A steelmaker works, hot metal pours out – general, Poland.

Industrial landscape – general (evening).

A tractor passes by – general. A. V. Gorshkov at home, surrounded by his family.

Son, I. V. Gorshkov's wife.

Hands of an old woman with a wedding ring - short.

Collective farm organizer A. V. Gorshkov and chairman talk to collective farm youth.

Young builders are building a house.

Female painters are painting the outside of a house.

Young men at a house construction site. A. V. Gorshkov at a new building among workers. "Everyday services center" in a collective farm village.

Street - general, Poland.

Reel №2

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A herd of horses rushes across a pasture during a thunderstorm.

White horse in a meadow - kr.

A rider gallops across a meadow during a thunderstorm.

Horse's muzzle - cf.

Cartoon: lightning in the sky - general.

Horses' muzzles in a paddock - kr.

A horse with a foal in a stall during a thunderstorm - kr.

Clouds obscure the sun - general.

Rural landscape during a thunderstorm - general. (summer) Dust storm in Kuban: the wind lifts black soil from the fields, covers the crops in the fields with dust, tears off the shoots - kr, general.

A meeting in the office of the first secretary of the Novokubansky district committee, land reclamation engineer A. F. Nedilko.

The participants of the meeting speak (synchronously).

Andrei Filippovich Nedilko and others in a field affected by a dust storm.

A field damaged by a dust storm - general.

Bare bushes covered with dust and black soil.

Residential buildings and outbuildings destroyed by the storm.

Bulldozers clear roads and the village of black soil.

Black soil is loaded into trucks to be sent to the storm-stricken fields.

A meeting in A. F. Nedilko’s office, the participants of the meeting speak (synchronously). A. F. Nedilko, specialists, and scientists inspect the storm-stricken field. A. F. Nedilko drives through the storm-stricken area in a car.

Portrait – short.

Newsreel from 1955: Chairman of the Kulunda State Farm Nestor Seliverstovich Shevchenko – short, Poland.

Poland from birches to the monument on the grave of N. S. Shevchenko with the inscription “To the man who decorated the earth with his labor” (Altai Krai, Blagoveshchensk District).

Ice drift on the Oka – general.

Ice drift and flood – general, Poland.

River spills and melt water in the forest – various.

Flooding in rural areas: houses, fields, vegetable gardens, submerged by spring floods.

Ravines with crumbling edges on the lands of Ukraine – general.

Landslides of soil cut by ravines – various.

A ravine approaching a highway.

A ravine and villages – general.

Planting seedlings on forest belts in Krasnodar Krai.

Planting forest belts in Belgorod Oblast.

Forest planting machines on plowed strips, women lower seedlings into the ground from the moving machine – various.

Bushes of seedlings on a plowed forest shelterbelt – general, average, Poland.

Bulldozers and excavators clear plots of land from boulders in the Estonian SSR. An earthmoving machine digs ditches to drain land for crops.

Workers lay drainage pipes in ditches to drain excess water – misc.

A stone with an inscription in Estonian and a picture in memory of the people who cleared the land of boulders and swamps for crops.

A stone with an inscription and a picture.

A monument to N. S. Shevchenko with the inscription "To the man who decorated the earth with his labor." A blossoming apple tree – Wed, PNR.

Reel №3

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Fields in Kuban, separated by forest belts, combines in the fields – general.

Fields – general, panorama (from an airplane).

Ears of ripe wheat in a field – general, run over.

Academician P. P. Lukyanenko, who created high-yielding varieties of wheat, in a grain field – general (summer) A field of wheat with large ears.

A panorama of blooming sunflowers in a field towards a group of people.

A field of blooming sunflowers of a new variety, bred by Academician V. S. Pustovoit.

A girl and a boy walk between rows of corn, inspecting stalks with cobs.

Academicians V. S. Pustovoit and M. I. Khadzhinov in a field.

A combine harvests corn for fattening cattle – general, cf.

Harvesting fodder beets with a combine.

A vehicle with green mass for silage passes by.

A machine throws green mass to the silo.

Corn field of the Zhdanov collective farm in Ukraine.

Collective farm specialists inspect corn grown for silage.

A herd of cows in a pasture – medium, Poland (summer).

Young bull – small.

Chairman of the Zhdanov collective farm in the Belgorod region A. L. Kotov inspects the room where the bulls are kept for fattening.

Bulls in stalls – small.

Mechanized distribution of feed to cattle.

Loading cattle into cars for shipment to a meat-packing plant – general.

Workers of the specialized poultry collective farm "Red October" in the poultry house.

Room for keeping laying hens – medium, Poland.

Conveyor for collecting and sorting eggs in the poultry house – medium, Poland.

Mechanized distribution of feed to chickens.

Poultry house workers inspect the chickens.

A large flock of sheep in a pasture – general.

Shepherds on horseback riding the flock.

Livestock breeders at work on a pig farm – general.

A herd of cows of different breeds – general.

A livestock complex in Ukraine: a barnyard, premises for keeping livestock – general.

Another livestock complex – general (summer).

Farm – general (from above).

A livestock complex in Belarus – general.

An interior view of a calf house – general, Poland.

A calf-mother at work at the feeders.

Calves drink from drinkers.

A calf-mother at work at the drinkers.

An interior view of a cowshed equipped with machinery and milking equipment.

A milkmaid monitors the operation of an electric milking machine.

The piping system of the machine, milk flows through the pipes.

A refrigeration shop of the complex, an automatic machine for bottling and packing milk into bags is in operation.

A worker puts bags into baskets – medium, Poland.

Pig farmer M. I. Smirnova talks about the work of livestock breeders before the advent of mechanization on the farm (synchronously).

Pig farm with mechanized animal care – general (from the top point).

Sow with piglets in cages: piglets play, suck milk – various. M. I. Smirnova at home, family photos on the walls.

Tractor driver of the Zhitomir collective farm M. K. Zinevich, who hid the collective farm tavern from the German invaders – short.

Chairperson of the Belarusian collective farm "Peremoga" L. A. Naumova – short, Polish People's Republic with orders on the face of L. A. Naumova.

Chairperson of the Moldavian collective farm, candidate of economic sciences I. F. Anisimov at home, talking with the collective farm women – medium, short.

Face of a woman – short.

Hero of Socialist Labor P. A. Malinina – short.

Face of a woman – short.

Women of different professions – kr., cf.

The elderly milkmaid Klavkina is talking to young milkmaids on the farm.

The girls are listening – kr.

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Horses with carts of sacks and hay pass by, a tractor with a cart of hay – general (winter).

Winter open pen for cows in the Bolshevik collective farm, Vladimir region.

Chairman of the Bolshevik collective farm A. V. Gorshkov talks to milkmaids – medium, small.

In the cabin, A. V. Gorshkov talks to a correspondent (synchronously).

Crowns of birches against the background of a blue winter sky – panorama (in a circle).

Panorama from the crowns to the trunks, to the snow – small, panorama Collective farmers in the forest chopping branches.

Brooms made by collective farmers of the Bolshevik artel.

Loading brooms into a wagon for shipment.

In the workshop of the Latvian collective farm Adazhi, they make shovel handles – medium, small.

Chairman of the Adazhi collective farm I. V. Kukelis holds a meeting of the collective farm board.

Rural landscapes – general. (sunrise, winter) I. V. Kukelis speaking (synchronously).

In the subsidiary workshop, collective farmers make shovels.

Workers of the Adazhi collective farm make various souvenirs from wood waste.

Wooden souvenirs: brooches and other items. A. V. Gorshkov in the Bolshevik collective farm, I. V. Kukelis speaking (synchronously). I. V. Kukelis in the collective farm vegetable greenhouse.

In the collective farm workshop, men make pictures from wood.

Pictures from wood – Wed, Poland.

Souvenirs made of ceramics with national designs at the bazaar.

Buyers in national Carpathian clothing examine the products of rural craftsmen.

A rack with wooden barrels with the inscription "Vologda butter" – kr, Poland.

Canned fruit produced at collective farm factories.

Harvesting cherries on the collective farm – Wed, kr.

Harvesting apples in the collective farm orchard.

Boxes of apples.

Collective farm fruit orchard – general (from helicopter) Loading boxes of fruit into refrigerated trucks for shipment.

Refrigerated truck with the sign: "Fruits, Krasnodar Trust of Fruit State Farms" – ed.

A column of refrigerated trucks passes along the road – general.

Girls at work at a canning factory – ed.

Jars of canned cucumbers in the warehouse of a collective farm canning factory.

A collective farm factory producing feed flour from green mass, automatic machines are working.

Women at the factory pour granulated feed for cattle and poultry into sacks.

Brick production at a collective farm factory, women at work on the conveyor belt – medium, medium.

Harvesting cucumbers in a greenhouse of the Moscow Region vegetable state farm "Moskovsky": boxes of fresh cucumbers.

Greenhouse premises – general, medium.

Greenhouses of the Moskovsky state farm, multi-story residential buildings in the distance – general (winter) Harvesting cabbage in the collective farm garden by hand – general.

Harvesting oats in the field, collective farmers working with pitchforks and rakes.

Harvesting flax in a collective farm field: machines remove flax from the roots, other work is done by hand.

Collective farmers tie sheaves of flax – general.

Hands tie a sheaf of flax – general.

Fields after harvesting – general.

Harvested and plowed fields, a car drives by in the distance – general.

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Evening landscapes – general, medium (summer) Horses graze on the river bank at night, horses' reflection in the river – medium.

Moon – small.

Boys cook dinner over a fire at night, a pot over the fire – medium.

Sunrise – general (summer) A watering machine is working in the field – medium.

Watering installations irrigate the fields – general, panorama.

Harvesting hemp in the field – general, medium.

Collective farm motor depot, trucks in the depot yard.

Kirov Collective Farm in Krasnodar (from the top).

Paved road along the village.

A bus takes collective farmers to their work sites.

Collective farm poultry house – general.

Ducks in the poultry house yard and on the pond – general.

Chairman of the Kirov Collective Farm I. N. Pereverzev drives through the collective farm estate in a car – medium.

A street in a collective farm village, a bus passes by. I. N. Pereverzev talks to collective farmers and builders in different parts of the farm.

Collective farmers stack hay in haystacks. I. N. Pereverzev talks to a member of the collective farm amateur song and dance ensemble in his office (synchronously).

An amateur ensemble performs, a girl sings a song with the choir (synchronously).

Collective farmers, children, machine operators listen - different.

An abandoned hut with a lock on the door.

Empty huts left by peasants who went to live in the cities.

An old man gets water from a well with a bucket tied to a rope.

Old women in an empty village.

A wedding in a collective farm village, musicians play the accordion and trumpet.

A festive table.

An estate with outbuildings, flowerbeds in front of the buildings.

Collective farm football teams play at the stadium.

Collective farm swimmers train in the estate pool.

Children of collective farmers from different republics relax, play on playgrounds and attractions.

Interiors of Soviet peasants' apartments.

Work of a hairdresser's in the village.

Children at a ballet group lesson in the Palace of Culture.

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Ripe ears of wheat – kr, cf.

A field of ripe wheat in the Krasnodar Territory – general, Poland.

Machine operators and grain growers are standing in the field.

Combine harvesters are working in the field.

The Kolos and Niva combine harvesters are harvesting – kr, general.

Combine harvesters at work – kr.

Combine harvesters are harvesting – general (from an airplane).

Grain is poured from the combine bunkers into trucks.

Girls are working on the threshing floor.

Machine operators are washing themselves, pouring water over themselves from a bucket.

Tractors are working in the field.

The face of an old peasant – kr.

The chairman of the Kirov collective farm in the Krasnodar Territory in a field during the wheat harvest.

Hands are pouring large grains of wheat – kr.

Combine harvesters are working in the field (night).

A column of vehicles with grain from the new harvest is on the way.

Girls are resting, lying on the grain.

Faces of peasants harvesting – kr.

The chairman of the Zhdanov collective farm, A. P. Kotov, and the livestock specialist Kravchenko are walking across a corn field.

A harvested field – general, Poland.

A sunflower field – general.

A girl is running across a field of blooming poppies – general, Poland.

A flock of swans is taking off and rising into the sky – general.

An airplane is flying above the clouds – average.

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