Movie Difficult field. (Dearest №3, 1981)
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0:09:33Difficult field. Dearest №3 (1981)
Annotation:
A film about the revival of agriculture in the USSR in the post-war period.
Historical reference:
The film centers on the fates of two collective farmers - K. P. Orlovsky, chairman of the Belarusian collective farm "Rassvet", and Posmitny M., chairman of the Ukrainian collective farm. Participants in the struggle for the harvest in the difficult years of 1946, 1947, 1948 recall: collective farmer Semenov O., Tabatabulova B. - a participant in the cattle drive from Kazakhstan to the war-ravaged areas, collective farmer Dreval T., Kirilenko A. P. - then first secretary of the Nikolaev regional committee of the CPSU, and others.
Annotation:
The film about the restoration of agriculture, destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, is edited from archival post-war newsreel footage of the following content: destroyed villages and hamlets; broken military equipment in the fields; refugees on the roads; soldiers returning from the front to their villages and celebrating holidays; a widow at the coffin with the body of a dead soldier; construction of residential buildings; homemade brick production at a rural construction site; city builders arriving in a village; villagers moving from dugouts to new houses; ice drift; peasants clearing a field of shells and military equipment; peasants cultivating the land; sowing and harvesting grain crops; the chairman of the Belarusian collective farm "Rassvet" K. P. Orlovsky speaking at a meeting of collective farmers, inspecting the collective farm carts and wagons; a convoy with gifts for Ukrainian peasants from residents of a Georgian village on the way; cattle being driven from Kazakhstan to villages damaged by the war; cattle being transported in freight train cars; Head of the dairy farm of the 12th October collective farm P. A. Malinina at work; land reclamation work; a dry river bed, dry fields of corn and buckwheat during a drought in Moldova; discussion of the resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of 1947 "On measures to improve agriculture in the post-war period" at the board of the Koltsovsky Order of Lenin collective farm named after Stalin (synchronously); collective farmers carry out snow retention work; production processes of manufacturing and repairing agricultural machinery in the plant shops and workshops; Chairman of the Budyonny collective farm of the Odessa region M. A. Posmitny speaks at a production meeting; P. N. Angelina at work on a combine; children collecting ears of corn in the field; hayfields; threshing grain on the threshing floor; performance of a choreographic ensemble on the threshing floor; Collective farmers in the club watch a newsreel dedicated to the heroes of collective farm labor; L. I. Brezhnev presents awards to collective farmers at a field camp and at an agricultural exhibition; honoring the Heroes of Socialist Labor and others. The film includes footage of the modern village of the Rassvet collective farm, monuments to the chairmen of the collective farms M. O. Posmitny and K. P. Orlovsky, as well as the recollections of the former groom of the Rassvet collective farm O. Semenov (synchronously), a participant in the cattle drive from Kazakhstan to the villages damaged in the war B. Tabatabulova (synchronously), the chairman of the collective farm L. A. Ivanishchenko (synchronously), collective farmers T. I. Dreval and N. Yakovleva (synchronously), the former first secretary of the Nikolaev regional party committee A. P. Kirilenko, the former director of one of the plants, and now the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N. A. Tikhonov (synchronously).
Reel №1
Ice drift; flood.
Plowed fields, tractors in the field.
Newsreel 1945-1950. Broken military equipment in the field.
Return of refugees and soldiers to villages.
Everyday life of peasants, holiday.
Destruction.
Faces of widows.
The film's presenter, actor E. Matveyev, speaks at the monument "Rifle and Plow" to Hero of the Soviet Union, collective farm chairman K.P. Orlovsky (synchronously).
Photo by K. Orlovsky.
Post-war Moscow.
Destroyed village.
Everyday life of fire victims. K.P. Orlovsky holds a meeting in the village.
Clearing fields, plowing in the Belarusian collective farm "Rassvet"
Reel №2
Newsreel 1945-1950. Work in the forges.
Life in the village.
Groom O. Semenov harnesses a horse and plows. K. Orlovsky teaches O. Semenov to plow.
Old men teach boys to plow. O. Semenov talks about working on a collective farm.
Construction in the village.
Amateur brick production.
Townspeople help with construction in the village.
Moving from dugouts to new houses.
Housewarming celebrations.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Battles for the liberation of the village; the village welcomes the partisans.
Collection of gifts for Ukraine in the Georgian village of Shroma; convoys with gifts are moving.
Building materials and equipment are being loaded for areas affected by the war.
Reel №3
Newsreel: Cattle are being driven from Siberia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the affected areas.
Shepherd B. Tabatabulova tells about the drive (synchronously).
Herds are met in Ukraine.
A train with cattle is met.
Livestock breeder Praskovya Malinina talks to the delegation, shows the animals.
Newsreel: Preparations for sowing in the spring of 1946; melioration work.
Sowing.
Drought; parched fields and steppes; harvesting ears.
Trains with food and seeds are traveling.
Reel №4
Snow-covered village.
Pravda newspaper, 1947, with a report on the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Meeting in the village of Koltsovka (synchronously).
Snow retention work.
Plowed fields.
Spring work.
The following talk about the spring of 1947: chairman of the Ukrainian collective farm L.A. Ivanishchenko (synchronously in the field) and T.I. Dreval (synchronously).
Plowing; sowing.
Everyday life of rural residents.
Photographs of peasant children.
Threshing grain.
Women cover furrows with hay.
Rain in the village.
Tractors plowing.
Photo of the first secretary of the Nikolaev regional party committee A.P. Kirilenko.
Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee A.P. Kirilenko talks about 1947 (synchronously. E. Matveyev listens.
Reel №5
Assembling agricultural machinery.
A train loaded with tractors departs.
Chairman of the Ukrainian collective farm Makar Posmitny at a meeting, in his office, at a field camp, checking the sowing, congratulating the collective farmers.
Photos by M.O. Posmitny.
Women at work in the fields, 16-year-old Nina Yakovleva is working.
Hero of Socialist Labor N. Yakovleva talks about work on the collective farm (synchronously). M. Posmitny and other collective farmers examine wheat.
Harvesting grain with combines.
Working on hay mowers.
Shock worker P. Angelina at work on a combine on the Staro-Beshevo collective farm.
Strong wind and rain in the field; wheat beaten by the rain.
Collective farmers reap beaten wheat with sickles, stack it in the water.
Moscow, Gorky Street.
People on the street.
Shoppers in stores.
Dancing in the village.
Townspeople harvesting grain.
Artists working on the threshing floor.
The ensemble performs a lezginka on the threshing floor.
Night work on the threshing floor.
Reel №6
Photo by L.I. Brezhnev, N.A. Tikhonov.
Narrated by N.A. Tikhonov (synchronously) Harvesting, handing over grain to the state (day and night shots).
A cameraman films collective farm women.
Collective farmers watch a documentary in a club. L.I. Brezhnev awards Moldovan collective farmers at a field camp and at an exhibition.
Awarding of 24-year-old collective farm chairperson Maria Pustik.
Honoring K.P. Orlovsky, Hero of Socialist Labor M. Posmitny. N. Yakovleva preparing for the celebration. N. Yakovleva at the celebration.
Photo by M. Posmitny and his wife Pelageya (cartoon).
Sunflower and beet fields.
Harvesting grain, villages (shot from a helicopter).
A modern village.
Hotel in the Rassvet collective farm.
Monuments to M. Posmitny and K. Orlovsky.
Graduates lay flowers at the Orlovsky monument.
The "Rifle and Plough" monument.
Night landscape.
The radio station of the Stalin collective farm, the announcer speaks (synchronously).
Collective farmers drive and go to work.
Trains with tractors and combines pass by. E. Matveyev speaks.