A film commissioned by Central Television about Soviet women.




Young girls in raincoats walk along the streets of Tallinn – medium shot, close-up (autumn).
A girl with a school bag gets on a bus – close-up.
Two girls are talking while standing on the sidewalk, a small dog is sitting next to them – medium shot.
A guy is waiting for a girl – close-up.
A girl is standing by a car – medium shot.
Female portraits by various artists – close-up.
Girls from the Kaluga Radio Tube Factory walk among the birches – long shot (early autumn).
Girls at the factory at work – the girls’ faces and hands holding the parts of radio tubes – close-ups.
A girl is checking radio tubes – medium shot, close-up.
A female worker is looking through a microscope – medium shot.
Competitions of women’s factory teams in basketball – long shot, medium shot, close-up.
Fans in the gym – close-up.
Girls are training with balls in the gym – close-up.
Production meeting in the office of the chief engineer of the radio tube factory Irina Molchanova – medium shot, close-up. I. Molchanova in the factory workshop presents diplomas to girls who graduated from the technical school at the factory, congratulates the girls – medium, close-up.
The workers applaud – wide shot. I. Molchanova at home – plays the piano; puts on her coat, leaves the house; walks through the autumn park – medium shot.
Kiev – wide shot.
Kyiv street – wide shot.
Girls walk along the street – medium, wide shot.
Kiev University – close-up.
Classes at the radiophysics department of the university – wide, medium, close-up.
A female student at a laser; laser beam – wide shot.
Computer remote control; a female student at the remote control; reads a program from a punched tape – close-up, wide shot.
The sea; seagulls over the sea; on the water; on the shore – wide shot.
Photo: a baby – close-up.
Muscovite Natalia Dobrova, chemist, doctor of medical sciences in a chemical laboratory near the instruments – close-up.
Instruments – wide shot.
Dobrova and her colleagues examine an artificial valve they have created to correct congenital heart defects in children – medium, close-up.
Girls attending a ballet school – medium, close-up.
Heart surgery – faces of the surgeon, Dobrova, and medical staff leaning over the operating table – close-up.
The surgeon and Dobrova converse after the surgery – medium, close-up.




A gymnast performing an exercise on a balance beam – close-ups.
A group performance of gymnasts performing floor exercises – medium, close-ups.
Girls walking along the street in Tallinn – close-up, panorama.
A hairdressing salon in Tallinn – girls in front of mirrors – close-up.
Hairdresser Ingrid doing hair – medium, close-ups.
Autumn trees – close-up, panorama.
Old Tallinn – long shot.
The walls of an ancient castle; an old lantern, its shadow on a cobblestone street – medium shots.
Drawings for Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” – medium shots.
A young man waiting for a girl on a street in Tallinn; they walk along the street holding hands – close-up, long shots.
Hairdresser Ingrid putting on a helmet, riding a motorcycle – medium shots.
The bride and groom walking up the stairs of the Leningrad Wedding Palace – long shot.
Wedding ceremony – a woman addresses the newlyweds with parting words – medium shot (sync).
The newlyweds put on rings; congratulate the bride – close-ups.
The newlyweds get into the car; lay flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier – close-ups.
Bread and salt are presented to the newlyweds near the house – close-up.
A bench by the Neva; autumn landscape – medium, close-ups.
The sea (glare on the water) – close-up.
A boy runs along the footbridge – long shot.
Children dance in a kindergarten in one of the villages of Estonia; play various games – long, medium shots.
The children undress, their dresses lie on the chairs; the children sleep – medium, close-ups.
The teacher closes the bedroom door – medium shot.
Panorama of the children's town – close-up.
Children wash themselves – close-up.
Dolls in the toy corner – close-up.




A woman from a Dagestani village bakes bread – close-ups.
Aul – general shot.
A large family is having dinner at the table – medium, close-ups.
Water flows from a mountain spring, girls collect water from the spring in silver jugs, walk with the jugs on their shoulders – medium, close-ups.
A Dagestani woman ties a headscarf – close-up.
The whole family is in the yard of the house – close-ups.
A young married couple (son and daughter-in-law) enters the yard, the young father holds his firstborn in his arms – medium shot.
The grandfather warms his hands over the fire, takes the child in his arms, shows him to all the members of his large family – medium, close-ups.
Dagestani folk dances are performed in honor of the firstborn – close-up (synchronized).
Photo: mother with child – close-ups.
A girl walks through an autumn park, girls run – general shot.
A young man draws in the park – close-up.
An Estonian choir sings (synchronized) – medium shot.
Boys and girls dance; an orchestra plays – close-ups.
Children are riding on a swing – close-up.
Young mothers in national costumes are sitting on the balcony of a wooden house with newborn children – general plans.
Kyiv – general plan.