Derelicts. A Drama Without Final (1991)

Documentary №9924, 3 parts, duration: 0:28:24
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Director:Vermisheva M.
Screenwriters:Gurkov G.
Camera operators:Golovnya V.

Annotation:

About the fate of Germans, who came to Russia two hundred and fifty years ago, about their descendants, who had to emigrate to Germany nowdays.

Reel №1

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A panorama of the birches in the forest (winter).

A panorama of a road in the forest.

A scene from a theatre performance: a dialogue between two men.

An antique gramophone record is rotating.

R. Guber is speaking about the genocide of the Germans in Povolzhye [the Volga River Region].

Saratov Region, the town of Marx.

A destroyed German cemetery; headstones with the inscriptions in German, a cross on the ground in the hole.

A panorama of the antique china figures.

A panorama of a winter landscape, a bush, and sand-pit located at the place of a destroyed village.

A panorama of a destroyed mill.

Trees in the water.

The Museum Director N. Titov is speaking about the destroying of German villages.

A car is passing by along a muddy road; a horse with a cart is passing by.

A panorama of a poster with the inscription “Uchenie Marxa vsesil’no, potomu chto ono verno” [Carl Marx’s Doctrine is All-Powerful As It Is True]

Running train’s wheels.

A freight train is passing by.

A.Traudvain is speaking about the deportation of the Germans from Povolzhye to the taiga.

A scene from a theatre performance: people are lying on the ground (concentration camp).

Reel №2

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A panorama of a theatre performance.

A. Traudvain is continuing to speak..

Hands are holding family photographs.

N. Titov is continuing to speak.

Photos telling about the lives of Germans from Russia..

A panorama of the town in the distance.

A panorama of the operator's room of the Broadcasting Committee.

Employees are working.

A panorama of the rotating magnetophone’s disk.

Hands are on the piano keys.

A panorama of the field and the groove.

A panorama of vineyards in the mountains.

A panorama of the village: cars, motorcycle and people are going by.

An elderly artist, concentration camp’s former prisoner, is sitting with his grandson is looking at his picture and speaking.

A panorama of a long-case clock.

The gramophone record is rotating.

A panorama of a sheep flock at the cemetery.

Reel №3

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A newsreel of the 2-nd decade of the XX century.

The town of Marx (a former town of Marxschtadt): a square, a horse harness.

A panorama of the market.

A German’s house.

A church.

Pedestrians in the street.

Windows with the shutters.

People are going out of the house.

Village houses, the dam.

A village store.

A shop-window.

People are near the shop-window nailed up with the boards.

Shoesstore: shoes shelves, customers are choosing shoes.

A boy is having a bag with shoes.

A shop assistant is cutting the cloth, packing the buyings.

Customers at the cashier's desk.

A recorder is put on the gramophone; the record is rotating.

Lamp-shade.

A tailor-shop's clients are reading newspapers.

A woman is in the dressing-room, smiling.

A boy is smiling.

A shop assistant is giving a toy-horse to the boy; the boy is playing.

Horse harness.

The goods are being laid on the sledge; sledges are sliding.

Steamships are at the wharf.

A girl is in the street.

A panorama of the town street.

Muddy road.

Cars next to the house.

A panorama of the girl washing her shoes.

Women and children are standing with branches of pussy willow in the street.

Pussy willow in hands.

A panorama of the church ceremony: a priest is waving with the censer, girls wearing white clothes are standing.

A panorama of children entering the house.

The cross on the house.

A house with a closed window to the garden.

A scene from a German theatre performance about emigration.

Running train wheels.

Sunset.

Schmidt is speaking about emigration.

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