A Tale of Conquered Happiness

Chronicle documentary, historical and publicistic film, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Leninist Komsomol. Part I. Fragments of the feature film "October". Chronicle footage: Petrograd, 1917-1918, a tram is passing through St. Isaac's Square, soldiers with an artillery gun on an open platform; 1918-1920, the armored train is moving, the guns of the armored train are shooting, the Red Army soldiers in the wagons of the armored train; a detachment of workers mobilized into the Red Army is walking along the street; boarding of Red Army soldiers in an armored train, Red Army soldiers and a female commander in an armored train carriage; an artillery gun fires, an exploded factory chimney falls; Petrograd, 1918-1919, the population of the city builds fortifications and barricades; 1920, Agitation train at one of the stations, agitator speaks; VI Lenin makes a speech at a memorial meeting in memory of Ya. M. Sverdlov in Moscow on March 18, 1919; 1919-1920, loading ammunition and a detachment of workers and Red Army soldiers into the echelon; [staged]: wooden one-story houses on a city street, an announcement on one of the houses: "The district committee is closed - everyone has gone to the front"; 1920 a regiment of the First Cavalry Army drives through the city streets; [staged]: a detachment of the First Cavalry Army gallops across the field with a banner; 1920-1922 the Red Army regiment enters the city; 1920 regiment of the Red Army enters the city of Odessa; 1922-1925 blown up and wrecked railway cars, destroyed buildings of factories, sunken ships; blown up bridge, blown up houses; restoration work in cities and at enterprises. Steppe landscape of Crimea. Monument "For the Liberation of Crimea" in the steppe. Students of one of the universities in the classroom. Part II. Chronicle footage of 1925-1930, dedicated to the construction of industrial facilities of the first five-year plans, including: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Dneproges and others. Personnel from the chronicle of the 1925-1930s: production processes at industrial enterprises; a Komsomol meeting at one of the enterprises dedicated to admission to the Komsomol; movement of trains. Part III. Chronicle footage of 1927-1929, dedicated to the creation of collective farms: meetings at which peasants write applications for admission to the collective farm; socialization of livestock, the first tractors on collective farms. Personnel from the chronicle of 1929-1930: a food detachment in one of the villages; OGPU officers search the house, boxes with rifles in the underground of the house; the arrested clergy and peasants are being escorted. Personnel of the chronicle of the 1930s: production processes at industrial enterprises and in agriculture, including: start-up of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, metal smelting, coke and tractor plants, grain harvesting, shock workers of the first five-year plans A. Stakhanov, M. Vinogradova and P. Angelina at work, P. Krivonos in the cabin of a diesel locomotive, the construction of the Moscow metro. Chronicle footage of the 1930s, dedicated to the life and everyday life of workers and collective farmers: workers and collective farm canteens, a pioneer camp, kindergartens. Chronicle footage: the plane on the field of the airfield, the collective farmers get on the plane, the plane is in the air. VII All-Union Extraordinary Congress of Soviets. JV Stalin speaking. Present: V. M. Molotov, L. M. Kaganovich, K. E. Voroshilov, M. I. Kalinin. Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in various localities of the Soviet Union. Members of the government vote. Part IV. Production processes in oil fields, ball bearing plant, garment factories, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, Trekhgornaya Manufactory, coal mining in Donbass mines, Dynamo plant, railway transport. The movement of freight and passenger trains. Railway workers at work. Diesel locomotive driver V. A. Bogdanov at the wheel of a personal car, in the locomotive cabin. Harvesting grapes, tobacco, apples, cotton on the collective farm named after N.K. Krupskaya. Beet growers at work in the field. Collecting tea leaves on the collective farm. L.P. Beria as Komsomol members Baratashvili and Sadtania. Agronomist of the Dagestan collective farm named after V.I. K. Marx M. Ragimov oversees the grape harvest. Moscow city. Deputy of the USSR Armed Forces V. Khetagurova seeing off girls leaving for work in the Far East. Chronicle footage dedicated to the air flight of M. Raskova, V. Grizodubova and P. Osipenko. Part V. Moscow. Kremlin. The building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The deputies enter the building, attend one of the sessions of the Supreme Council. Among the deputies: V. Chkalov, G. Baidukov, A. Stakhanov, V. M. Molotov, L. M. Kaganovich. Schoolchildren cross the street under the guidance of a traffic controller. Schoolchildren and students in the classroom, including in one of the Moscow schools, Moscow University, military schools. Scientist-surgeon from Tashkent K. Tagirov at the operation. Physiologist I. T. Burtsev at work in the laboratory. Scientists D. Krip, K. Usmanov, S. L. Sobolev at work. Chronicle footage dedicated to the expedition to the drifting station "North Pole-1" under the leadership of ID Papanin. Sculptors A. Tkachev, Y. Shevchuk at work in the studio. Speeches by D. Oistrakh and E. Gilels. M. Botvinnik gives a session of the simultaneous game. Part VI. Vacationers at the resorts of the Black Sea coast. Resorts of the Black Sea coast. Movement of boats and boats. Competition swimmers. Diving. Moscow river station. The movement of motor boats on the river. Sports planes in the air. Football match at the Dynamo stadium. Mass race. Equestrian sports. Parachutists in the air. Columns of athletes in Red Square. Government on the podium of the Mausoleum. Part VII. Different sections of the state border of the USSR. Border guards on patrol. Border guards in the ranks. The movement of ships of the Navy. Army conscription. Conscripts for a medical examination. Seeing off the conscripts. Military exercises of the Red Army.

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1938