Chain of life (1987)

Helsinki, views of the city.

Moscow Kremlin, passers-by on the streets of the capital.

In the workshop of the Moscow Automobile Plant (AZLK), cars on the assembly line.

Factory of the Finnish design company Marimekko.

Conveyor belt, a technologist paints textile samples.

Views of Helsinki and Moscow.

Playground, children swinging and sliding.

Finnish Center for Maternal and Child Health.

Children riding bicycles in the courtyard of the center.

Pediatricians see babies.

Children's clinic in Moscow.

A nurse teaches young fathers how to swaddle a baby with the help of a doll.

A young man swaddles a doll.

Palace of Rites in Tbilisi, stained-glass windows.

Young mothers with children descend the stairs of the palace.

A palace employee congratulates the child and parents on their fifth anniversary.

The rite of baptism of a child in a Protestant church in Helsinki.

A priest performs ablution of the baby, young parents.

Newsreel from 1914-1918: Russian and Finnish street children on the streets of destroyed cities; men unload a train car, carry sacks of flour; street bakery, distributing bread to the hungry; Red Cross delegates handing out bread rations to children; teenagers with bread in a train car.

Port, loading containers with Red Cross symbols, employees of the organization.

Moscow, warehouse of the Soviet Red Cross.

Parcels with symbols, a woman packing dolls in a box.

Medics packing suitcases with medicines.

USSR Red Cross planes at the airfield.

Red Cross parcels on the conveyor belt of a cargo plane.

Views of African mountains and plains from an airplane.

Distribution of Red Cross humanitarian aid to Africans.

Africans scoop grain into sacks, carry sacks.

African women cook flatbreads over a fire.

Africans carry firewood, bundles of firewood on donkeys.

Central Ethiopia.

Africans and Red Cross specialists work on planting a forest.

Africans cultivate arid land, sow seeds.

Specialists inspect young trees.

African women wash in a pond, collect water in jugs.

Red Cross station, distributing water.

African children wash their hands with water under the tap, wash their faces.

Children wash their heads with clean water from watering cans.

Women collect clean water from the tap in large jugs.

An African village.

Red Cross volunteers conduct classes on child care and prevention of childhood diseases.

Young African women with children look at a medical poster.

An African woman learns how to dilute medicine in a bottle of water.

A mother gives medicine to her child.

Ethiopia, a former famine camp a year after the drought.

Africans tend green plants.

Red Cross workers examine children who survived the drought.

Children are measured and weighed.

Africans at a reception with a local healer.

The healer examines a woman's breasts, makes poultices.

Africans in a queue to see the healer.

Latvia, a Red Cross branch.

A medic shows children a poster with medicinal plants.

Child volunteers collect medicinal plants in the forest.

Children hand in baskets of herbs to the Red Cross collection point.

Ethiopia, the city of Addis Ababa, a hospital of the Soviet Red Cross.

Doctors perform an operation in the operating room.

Doctors put an oxygen mask on an African.

Africans in the corridors of the clinic.

Medicines in large format.

An African woman with small children at a doctor's appointment, the children are given medicine.

Training of local medical personnel in a hospital.

Soviet doctors examine Africans, a future nurse prepares an IV drip.

Students on scholarship of the Soviet Red Cross at a medical school.

Students from Africa at their desks, in laboratories with flasks.

Ethiopia, a large African family having lunch.

Helsinki, a home for the elderly.

Representatives of the Finnish Red Cross communicate with the elderly.

An elderly woman shows an album with family photos.

A Finnish canteen, cooks cooking.

A cook packs food into trays.

Red Cross volunteers take a hot lunch from the canteen, put the boxes in a car.

An elderly woman takes a lunch box from a volunteer.

Moscow, a visiting nurse of the Soviet Red Cross walks down the street.

A sister at a war veteran's house, giving the old man medicine, talking to him.

Finland, the city of Turku.

Teenage Red Cross activists walking with a young wheelchair user.

They ride with him around the city, visit the zoo.

Rescuers training on the highway in Turku.

Police cars, cars with the Red Cross symbols.

Simulating an accident with injured drivers and passengers.

Rescuers put the injured on stretchers, provide first aid, and take them away.

Latvia, a kindergarten.

Red Cross activists conduct classes with children on traffic rules.

Asphalt marked out for the roadway.

Children with toy cars, dolls, and strollers complete tasks.

Children drive cars along paths in the garden, study road signs.

Girls play nurses, bandage a teddy bear's paw.

Georgian village, first aid training.

A doctor puts a plaster cast on an arm, women watch.

Collective farmers harvest grapes.

A first aid kit in a vineyard.

Collective farmers put a splint on the leg of an injured woman.

Vacationers at a dacha table, a man puts sausages on an iron plate.

A girl pours flammable liquid on a trivet, a fire.

A girl's burnt arm.

Relatives provide first aid to the girl, bandaging her arms with improvised means.

Medical center.

A special Vitim simulator: a doll model is connected to a display.

A doctor teaches young people heart massage technology.

An ambulance with a siren, an injured woman is carried on a stretcher.

Blood transfusion service of the Finnish Red Cross.

Nurses take blood from donors.

Medical equipment, flasks with blood.

Lab technicians examine blood through microscopes.

A laboratory assistant takes blood bags from the refrigeration chambers and places them in a container.

A workshop of a heavy engineering enterprise.

Donor workers at their machines.

Donor workers donate blood at a Soviet Red Cross center.

Ethiopia, the city of Addis Ababa, the Red Cross Blood Service.

Ethiopian doctors take blood from their compatriots.

Laboratory assistants determine the blood type, blood bags.

A laboratory assistant takes blood from the refrigeration chambers and hands out the bags to a Red Cross employee.

The Red Cross building, a flag with the organization's symbols fluttering.

People look at Red Cross posters.

Views of Helsinki, Moscow, passers-by on the streets of cities.