Russian North (1983)

Field.

A wedge of birds in the sky.

Two children are running along a path along a field.

A village street.

Two women are tugging at wool on the threshold of a hut.

A representative of the Arkhangelsk branch of the art fund approaches them.

Conversation (synchronously).

A woman from the art fund is talking to an elderly man, showing photographs of folk crafts.

The woman goes around the elderly villagers, finding out if anyone is involved in ancient crafts.

Rural landscape, houses in the distance.

A man is drawing an ornament on a board with chalk.

Abandoned wooden houses.

An elderly woman is walking through a meadow.

She talks about abandoned houses.

Elderly women are sitting on a bench near a hut and recalling their former life.

A broken boat in the grass.

A boarded-up door of a hut.

A village street with new residential buildings (Experimental village).

Interview with the head of a family who decided to move to a cottage.

TV studio.

On the monitors, a man talks about why the family decided to move.

Rural landscape.

Fog.

A man making a spinning wheel.

A haystack covered with snow.

A woman showing an antique sarafan to a representative of the art foundation.

Close-up: hands embroidering on a machine.

Embroidery shop of a factory.

Close-up: hands applying a pattern to a wooden board using a stencil.

Factory director (synchronously).

Weaving shop.

Women at looms.

Finished woven rugs.

Carved wooden ladles, plates.

Antique wooden utensils.

Production of wooden ladles.

Carver at work.

Rural landscape.

Wind, rain.

Several sheep huddle near the wall of a log house.

Fire in a blacksmith shop.

Blacksmith at work.

A man tells teenagers about his life by the fire.

A man walks through the forest.

A man takes birch bark from a birch tree.

Exhibits in the museum: bast shoes and a birch bark tuesok.

Birch bark products (in the museum).

A man shows a teenager how to roll birch bark.

Teenagers watch a man weave a birch bark tuesok.

A flock of birds in the sky.

A wooden church.

A flock of sheep.

A woman calls her sheep.

Boys drive a flock to the village.

A young girl brings out milk for the kids.

An elderly woman teaches young girls to weave on an old loom.

A woman stirs hay.

A rural landscape.

TV studio, filming a program: a woman is making a birch bark tuesok.

Another woman is sitting nearby and reading an old fairy tale.

Museum exhibit: copper utensils.

Model of a wooden church.

Old women's clothing.

Landscape.

Wooden church on a hill.

Filming of a folk choir performance.

Children crowd around a horse harnessed to a cart.

The guide talks about the wooden house around which the tourists have gathered (synchronously).

Excursion to the museum of wooden architecture.

A woman and a girl are sitting near the house and cleaning mushrooms.

Evening landscape.

Interview with a fashion designer who talks about youth fashion in the village.

TV studio, filming a program.

Children are watching TV. Carved wooden boxes.

A boy mows the grass.

Horsemen rush along the field.

A tractor plows the field.

Boys bathe horses.

Seagulls on a plowed field.

Products from birch bark, wood, made by folk craftsmen.

Sale of products of folk craftsmen.

Livestock farm, cows on a walk.

A girl milks a cow.

A woman sings an old song (synchronously).

A girl weaves on an old loom.

Fire in the forge.

A blacksmith at work.

An elderly woman tells schoolchildren about how a wooden tub was used.

Schoolchildren collect old utensils from the village.

Children examine the collected items together with the teacher.

A wedge of cranes in the sky.

Landscape.

Shelves with household items.

A holiday on a village street.

An old man makes a "Bird of Happiness".

Landscapes.

A blacksmith at work.

A boy puts a collar on a horse.

Close-up: the blacksmith's face, fire.

Haymaking.

A girl weaves on an old loom.

An elderly man and a teenager weave something from birch bark.