About the life of children in the USSR and other socialist countries, as well as about the activities of the Red Cross in these countries.
Commissioned by the Executive Committee of the Order of Lenin of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the USSR and the Bulgarian Red Cross. The national Red Cross societies of the PPR, HPR, GDR, PPR, and Czechoslovakia took part in the making of the film. The film uses materials from the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR.
Socialist principle: "All the best for children". Education of children in nurseries, kindergartens, schools, recreation in camps. Professional education in socialist countries. Activities of the All-Russian Red Cross Society and Red Cross societies of socialist countries.




Moscow – general (summer).
Triumphal Arch – general, zoom in.
Address plans of Sofia, Budapest, Warsaw, Prague.
Children of different ages and with parents on a city street – medium, departure, panorama.
Moscow, Red Square – general, panorama; the Kremlin – general.
Infant – small.
Institute building, inscription on the building “Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology” - medium, small.
Midwife holding a newborn, panorama of a woman in labor – medium, small.
Nurse pushing newborns along the corridor – medium.
Maternity hospital ward, nurses handing out babies to mothers – general, small.
Mothers feeding children – small, small, zoom in.
Bulgaria: father speaking, sitting with child (synchronously in Bulgarian) – medium, small.
Foyer of a children's clinic (in Bulgaria or Czechoslovakia) – general, Polish, cro.
Mother with a baby in a doctor's office – Wed, cro.
Girl at the doctor's – cro, Polish.
GDR: a nurse showing the child to the parents – Wed, cro.
A young father giving an interview (simultaneously in German) – cro.
Parents taking their children to kindergarten and crèches – Wed.
A child being wheeled in a stroller attached to a bicycle – Wed.
Children in the crèches: crawling, looking at toys – general, cro, Polish.
Czechoslovakia: a mother and a nurse with a child going down the stairs – Wed, Polish.
A father holding a child, giving an interview (simultaneously in Czech).
Children in a kindergarten in one of the socialist countries: children having lunch, doing modeling – various.
Children's town.
Children ride toy cars, bicycles, learn to cross the road – various.
Men repair a children's car – categoriz.
Hungary: a father carries a newborn child to the car, hands him over to his wife, speaks (synchronously in Hungarian) – moderate, moderate.
Poland: children enter a doctor's office – moderate; they have their teeth treated – moderate, moderate.
A girl gets a Red Cross badge pinned on her head, she smiles – moderate.
A husband kisses his wife and newborn child, speaks (synchronously in Polish) – moderate.
Children go for a walk – general; play on the playground (in the sand, etc.) – various.
A bee on a flower – moderate.
USSR: children from a Moscow kindergarten work in the vegetable garden (at their summer cottage): water the vegetables, etc. – moderate, moderate.




Children in kindergarten: drawing, counting – various.
Children leaving school (one of the socialist countries) – general, departure.
Classes in one of the younger grades – short, medium.
Children walking down the street in pairs – general.
Birches – short, medium.
Children near the school building on the Yasnye Zori collective farm in the Belgorod region – general.
Schoolchildren during recess – short, medium.
Maths lesson in the 3rd grade: the teacher turns on a record player, the children write – short, medium.
Literature lesson in the 8th grade: a girl reads a poem by Pushkin (synchronously), the children listen – short, medium.
Younger schoolgirls in a choreography lesson – short, medium.
The teacher does choreography with older schoolchildren – medium, panoramic.
Drawing lesson – various.
Children dancing – medium.
Children swinging on a swing, running across a playground – Wed, departure.
GDR. Classes of first aid workers: a nurse bandaging a girl’s arm – various; girls putting a boy on a stretcher, carrying him – various.
Children walking along an alley – general, zoom in.
Toddlers walking hand in hand: a boy and a girl – short.
A child walking in the forest with his parents – general, zoom in.
The family of the Czech miner Bedrich Skramuska (father, mother, 13 children) walking in the forest, in a clearing, the father playing with the children – various.
A child eating berries – various.
A large family at home, the children doing their homework – general, panorama of the rooms.
The children running up the stairs, sitting at the table – Wed, general, zoom in.
A family riding in a car – general, zoom in.
Soviet Union: a father holding newborn twins in his arms, talking (synchronously) – Wed.
The Black Sea, the Crimean landscape – general (summer).
The Artek pioneer camp – general, the Polish People's Republic.
Children doing exercises outside – general; going down the stairs – moderate; running into the water, swimming – various.
Children walking along the alley, laughing, talking – general, the Polish People's Republic.
The sky – moderate, the Polish People's Republic.
The Bridal Palace in Vilnius: a chandelier – moderate.
A palace employee is speaking; congratulating the newlyweds (synchronously) – moderate.
The bride and groom are exchanging rings and kissing – general, moderate.
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic: a city street – general.
The bride and groom are leaving the building accompanied by their relatives – general, run over.
The groom is carrying the bride in his arms – general.
The Polish People's Republic: the bride and groom are leaving the church, collecting scattered money from the ground – general, moderate.
An orchestra is playing – Wed, Poland.
The bride and groom are getting into a car – Wed, Poland, general.
GDR: the bride and groom are getting out, getting into a carriage – Wed, Poland.
The carriage is driving – general.
Hungary: a wedding, people are singing and dancing in the street – Wed, general.
The bride and groom are dancing – Wed, cr.




Bulgaria: a wedding, guests dancing; the groom kissing the bride – Wed, kr.
A report along the streets of various cities: the groom and bride, young couples, children with their parents walking by – various.
A father and mother are carrying a child in a small basket – Wed, departure.
A baby is walking down the street next to his father – Wed, arrival.
Moscow region, Kratovo children's railway, a train is leaving – kr.
The children are inspecting the train, repairing the mechanisms, washing the windows of the electric locomotive – Wed, Poland.
A girl on duty at the station – Wed, Poland.
A train is passing – Wed, kr, Poland (summer).
A young engineer in a carriage – kr, Poland.
Child passengers in a carriage, looking out the windows – Wed, kr, Poland.
Students are talking about future professions (synchronously) – kr.
Moscow Industrial Training Center, students examining stands, drafting rooms, typing rooms, sewing workshop – various.
Female students of the Leningrad Medical School preparing the operating room for an operation, helping doctors – medium, large.
An ambulance driving along Nevsky Prospekt – general, panorama.
A doctor, a female student, and a patient in the car – medium, panorama, large.
Girls putting on masks, preparing an IV – medium, large, panorama.
A patient on the operating table – medium, panorama.
An operation in progress – medium, panorama.
Red Cross flags – medium, panorama.
Competition of the best first aid teams of the vocational school in the final of the military-sports game "Orlyonok": girls bandage, apply splints, carry a stretcher, judges watch – various.
Boys from the Polish city of Gdansk, members of the Red Cross, inspect ships and machinery at the Gdansk shipyard – misc.
City of Gdansk – general, panorama (from the top).
Boys from the shipbuilding school in the classroom: at the model, writing – kr., departure, wed.




GDR: Schoolchildren walking down the street – Wed, Poland.
A lesson in the 8th grade, a cameraman from the “Get to Know the Profession” program is filming the students; the students are talking – Wed, kr.
Cameraman in the studio, a panorama of the television – Wed.
A panorama of the factory chimneys of the Boxberg Hydroelectric Power Station – kr, general, Poland.
Control panel – Wed, Poland, departure.
Students of a vocational school at a thermal power plant at a control panel – Wed.
Hungary.
Old books – kr.
Vase of flowers – Wed.
Students of the Budapest Art School painting on the street, a panorama of the city – kr, wed.
Bridge over the Danube – general (from above).
The vestibule of the school, young people in the vestibule – Wed.
Artists painting on the walls – kr, wed.
Glass workshop, young engravers at work – general, medium, Poland.
Glass, vase in hands – medium.
College students in a weaving workshop – medium, small, Poland.
Czechoslovakia: students of the vocational school in Ostrov at the stadium: running, doing physical education – various.
Girls in the dormitory – medium, small.
Ostrov – general, Poland (from the top).
Classes in the classrooms of the vocational school at the Nova Huta metallurgical plant - various.
Young steelworkers at the control panel, by the oven – various.
Bulgaria: students of the Burgas School of Food Science knead dough, bake bread; teachers taste the bread – various.
Café at the school, waitresses carry food – various.
Table setting – medium, small.
Poland: vocational school students walk by – medium, medium.
Blacksmiths at work – Wed, cr.
Vocational school students in the classroom, at work – general, cr.
Vocational school lab technicians at work – general, Polish.
The inscription: "Exams are going quietly", pastry chefs are working behind the glass – cr.
Polish cake makers – cr.
Turners at work – Wed; radio assemblers – Wed.
Students in class – Wed.




Classes of students at vocational school #164 (Moscow), which trains aviation technicians and aircraft factory workers – Wed.
Students work in the cockpit and cabin of an airplane – cr., Wed.
Airplanes at the airport, taking off, flying – various.
Clouds – cr.
Moscow – general.
Women with strollers on the streets – Wed, departure.
People sitting by the fountain – general.
Parents pushing a child in a stroller – general, panorama.
Passers-by on the streets of various cities – Wed.
Old women with children on a bench – Wed, panorama.
Children sleeping in strollers – cr.
Newsreel: Explosion; a bomb is flying.
Children hiding in a hole.
Panorama of destroyed houses.
Corpses in a hole, near houses.
People near destroyed houses, crying.
Children being carried out of a boat.
Flooded city – general (from an airplane).
Aid from the USSR Red Cross to the affected people: setting up a tent, unloading a car.
A Soviet doctor examines children.
Hungary: packing medicine for shipment by the Red Cross – kr, wed, departure.
Poland: Red Cross activists collecting funds on the streets of the city, pinning badges on people – kr, wed.
The emblem of the Red Cross – kr.
Representatives of the GDR Red Cross collect things for children left homeless (blankets, toys, etc.) – kr.
Bulgaria: Red Cross workers load ships with medicines onto cars – kr.
Sending Red Cross parcels: boxes are brought to planes, loaded onto planes – various.
Poster on the boxes: "Gift of the Red Cross and Red Crescent of the USSR" - kr.
Loading cars at the port – general, kr.
Stormy sea, rocks – kr, Poland.
Bulgaria.
Red Cross School in Sozopol: rescuers carry a boat to the sea, practice on a dummy – various.
Motorboat in the sea – general.
International children's exhibition "How do you like my work?": drawings and other works by children suffering from various ailments (the exhibition is organized by the Bulgarian Red Cross) – various.
Children looking at the exhibits – kr., cf.
Poland: the building of the hospital-monument in memory of the 13 million children who died in World War II (in Warsaw) – general, Poland.
Children in the lobby of the International Child Health Center – general, Poland, kr.
Children in the offices, during procedures – various.
Children playing – kr.
Reportage along the street of a European city – general, Poland, kr.
Parents with a child in the park – kr., departure.
Grandfather with grandson on a bench – kr.
Kids playing on the boulevard – kr.