Give your all to the fight (1979)

Newsreel from 1976: Montreal.

The Olympic flame is burning.

They are carrying flags – kr.

At the stadium, a parade in honor of the closing of the 1976 Olympics – kr.

Moscow – general. (shot from a helicopter).

B/W: Weightlifter David Rigert is preparing for a performance.

The weightlifter drops the barbell – medium, kr.

Other weightlifters lift the barbells – kr. D. Rigert cannot hold the barbell and leaves the platform.

Rigert’s leg is examined.

The weightlifter walks with the trainers.

Rigert lifts the barbell, takes the weight. V. Alekseev lifts the barbell.

Alekseev victoriously raises his hands – medium, kr.

Color - Hands are playing the piano.

Newsreel from the beginning of the century: Phaetons on the street.

People are boarding a double-decker bus.

A steam locomotive passes.

Cyclists at the stadium – medium.

City street – general.

Driver behind the wheel of a car – kr.

Man and woman on an amusement park ride – kr, panorama of the house, street and building – kr, general (shot from above).

Image of a strongman in a newspaper – kr.

Woman taking a photo – kr.

Black and white photo: two strongmen standing – kr.

Strongman, another strongman, strongman’s face – kr.

Moscow, the Kremlin – general.

Black and white: West Germany.

Strongman holding a rope to which an airplane and a car are tied – kr.

Spain.

Woman bending a thick wire.

Black and white: Bavaria.

Strongman lifting weights – kr.

Poster from 1938 – kr.

Black and white photo: Russian athlete Alexander Ivanovich Zass, who competed under the name Samson – kr.

Black and white newspaper with a photograph of Samson – kr.

Color: Narrated by A. I. Zass’s nephew (synchronously) – Yuri Shaposhnikov – kr.

Newsreel: A strongman carries a horse – cf.

A strongman holds a platform with people, including a young Winston Churchill – cf.

A ride on a carousel – df.

Black and white photo: A strongman, a strongwoman, strongmen standing – df.

Color: Mikhail Aptekar, a coach at a sports school in Podolsk, speaking (synchronously) – df.

Black and white photo: A strongman holds weights.

A strongman holds a platform with people on his back.

A strongman holds a boat with sailors on his back – df.

Strongmen sitting – cf.

Color.

Weightlifter Yuri Vlasov speaking (synchronously) – df.

The book “The Path to Strength and Health”.

Black and white photo: Yu.

Vlasov is being awarded; the prize is presented by Georg Gackenschmidt, a famous athlete (nicknamed the “Russian lion”), who represented Russia at the World Championships – df.

B/w: Magazine "Russian Sport" - kr, Poland based on the magazines "Hercules"; magazine with photographs of strongmen - kr.

Newsreel: A strongman is standing, strongmen are passing, strongmen are wrestling - cf.

B/w photo: writer Alexander Kuprin is sitting at a table - kr, Poland.

Strongmen are standing, a poster.

A strongman is holding a barrel - kr, Poland.

Newsreel: An airplane is landing.

People are in the square.

The airplane is falling apart - kr.

Airship - kr.

A man is on the telephone, a woman is picking up the telephone receiver.

She turns on the fan - kr.

B/w photo: athlete Sandow and inventor Edison, wrestler Ivan Zaikin and Farman in an airplane - cf.

Poland based on the magazine "Strength and Health".

Newsreel: Strongmen are lifting weights.

Strongman Bukharov is standing.

Photo: Strongman Sparrs.

Strongmen.

Color.

This is M. Gromov, Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot (synchronously) – kr.

B/W: Diploma of the Athletic Society, awarded in 1928 to athlete Jan Sparrs – kr, Poland.

Colour: Commentator Jan Sparrs – kr.

Newsreel: Strongman approaches the barbell, lifts the barbell, spectators applaud – medium, kr.

Colour: Posters of the 1939 and 1946 World Championships.

Newsreel from 1946: World Champion Grigory Novak is met at the train station, people carry Novak in their arms – medium, kr.

Novak drives by in a car, people greet the athlete, he walks down the street surrounded by other athletes – medium, kr.

At the stadium, the strongman carries two large balls, from which children then run out, a girl watches – medium, kr.

Colour: Young athletes training in the gym – medium, kr.

Training of the USSR national weightlifting team.

Athletes are training in the gym.

Rigert is lifting the barbell, Alekseev is lifting the barbell.

Athletes are drinking tea.

Coaches are talking to each other – medium, red.

Senior coach of the national team Igor Savich Kudyukov is speaking (synchronously) – red.

B/w: An athlete lifts the barbell, but drops it – medium.

The coach is watching – red.

Color: Rigert is sitting – medium, red.

B/w: Rigert is speaking (synchronously).

The coach is watching.

Rigert and the coach are walking around the gym – medium, red.

Color: The flag of the Soviet Union is raised – red.

Panorama from Rigert’s hands to his face (in the gym) – red.

Olympic Champion medal.

Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Rector of the Moscow Regional Institute of Physical Culture, twice Olympic Champion Arkady Vorobyov is giving a lecture to students – medium, red.

Newsreel: Vorobyov lifts the barbell – Wed.

Coach A. Vorobyov watches.

The athlete lifts the weight; the coaches run up to him – Wed, kr.

Color: The first Soviet heavyweight to win the title of world champion, head of department Aleksey Medvedev with students in the classroom – general, Wed, kr.

On the exercise machine – numbers flash on the device.

An athlete runs with a mask on his face.

A doctor at the device, athletes on the exercise machine, on bicycles – kr. E. Matveyev speaks (synchronously) – film director.

Newsreel: Female athletes jump long and high – Wed, kr.

B/W: Duel between Soviet weightlifter Yuri Vlasov and American heavyweight Bretford – various.

Spectators applaud (Olympics in Rome).

Photo: Yuri Vlasov stands with his hands raised.

Color: Yuri Vlasov prepares a barbell in his apartment.

Vlasov at his desk.

Vlasov lifts a barbell while lying down – medium, red.

B/W photo: athlete stands with a barbell – Charles Rigoulot.

Czech Karel Svoboda with a barbell – medium.

Yuri Vlasov with American athlete Norbert Shemansky.

Newsreel: Shemansky lifts a barbell.

B/W: Referee gives the signal with his hand.

Photojournalist, spectators applaud – medium, red.

B/W: Assembling the barbell – medium.

Alekseev comes out, Alekseev holds the barbell, lifts the barbell.

Alekseev bows – medium, red.

Newsreel: Alekseev is smiling – kr.

Alekseev is lifting a barbell.

Girls are presenting a cake to Alekseev.

Alekseev’s wife and children are sitting in the gym – medium, kr.

Alekseev’s son is in his arms – medium.

Color: Alekseev is training his sons – medium, kr.

Alekseev is training with a barbell in the gym – general.

B/W: Landscape with a river, Ryazan region, Poland, general.

River station in the town of Rochegda – kr.

A felled tree is falling.

A country house.

An old barbell is lying there – medium.

Color: Alekseev is walking, smiling – kr.

B/W: A weightlifter drops a barbell.

Scoreboard – kr.

Alekseev is lifting a barbell – general.

Color: The strongest weightlifters are standing.

Alekseev is lifting a barbell.

Alekseev’s awards – medium, kr.

Alekseev is watching – kr.

Hristo Plachkov lifts the barbell.

Duel between Alekseev and Hristo Plachkov.

Alekseev wins – Wed, kr.

Sons applaud – Wed.

Rigert steps onto the platform.

Rigert lifts the weight.

Spectators, referee – Wed.

Different weightlifters lift the barbell – Wed, kr.