Believe Not Believe

The film is a term paper by a student of the directing department B. Khudoynazarov (workshop of prof. IV Talankin) and a thesis by a student of the camera department I. Markov. The first part. Moscow, a man walks along a construction crossing on the street, stops a girl, passers-by are walking by. The passage of the camera along the construction passage. A man in the park stops a man, asks if he thinks he is normal, slaps him on the shoulder, the man gets enough sleep from his portfolio. A girl stands at a newspaper window, two men come up to her, offer to be friends, the girl leaves them, the men pursue her. Men surround the girl, ask questions (“Can I eat you,” etc.). Showcases with theater posters. Men wander between the posters. The men ask the girl to invite them for a cup of coffee, the girl refuses. The girl leaves, the men follow her. A man with a briefcase sits at the bus stop, smokes. The second part of. Jet plane in the sky. A girl sits on the sand, lays out a figure from branches. Children slide down a sandy cliff, a man digs a hole in the sand, throws sand at the children. A girl walks along the sand, a man with a shovel in his hands runs by. The man is digging a hole in the sand, the girl comes up to him. The girl approaches the kids sitting on the sand, shouts "Atas, guys!" A man pours sand into a plastic wrap, a second man approaches him, says "Crazy!" The girl approaches the men, shouts. A man cuts a watermelon on a newspaper, a girl rejoices, a second man approaches, shares a watermelon. Three are eating watermelon. A man with a shovel explains why he brought his friends to the quarry (he is looking for a special clay for sculpture). The wind bends down the branches of the bushes. Three of them are thoughtfully eating a watermelon, the girl says, “I'm bored! Do something!". One of the men proposes to arrange a competition - who will eat the watermelon faster. The girl leaves. The third part Men go through their careers in search of a girl, are indignant. Men walk along a path in the forest. An elderly man catches something in a pond with a butterfly net. Men come up to him and ask if he has seen the girl. The man explains to them that he is catching raccoons in the water. Men climb a steep cliff from the reservoir. A boy with a bicycle walks along the path. Men wash their hands in the river, wash themselves. Men quarrel on the shore of a reservoir. Two young men and a girl are driving along the path on a motorcycle. One of the men gets into the boat, puts a bag of clay into it, the other pushes the boat away from the shore. The first man is sailing down the river in a boat without oars. The second man runs across the hinged bridge, talking to the man in the boat. The dog runs along the hinged bridge. Fourth part. A man in a boat without oars swims up to the bridge support, tries to climb the bridge by rope, the second man helps him to dock. The men swear. Athletes in kayaks swim past the bridge. Men run across the railway bridge across the river, a train is passing by. Men walk along the railroad tracks, sort things out. Cr.pl. - forest flowers. A man walks among the birches in the forest, with him a girl, stop at the broken "Zaporozhets" in a clearing. The man puts the girl in a broken "Zaporozhets", sits down himself, "starts" the engine, they "go". The man's voice depicts the roar of an engine. The girl tries to get out of the car, the man won't let her in, the girl cries. The girl manages to break free, she runs away. One man sits in the car, the second man runs up to him, kicks the car. Fifth part. A man sits at the support of a bridge over the river, thinks. An elderly woman comes up, asks for directions to the station, leaves. Pond overgrown with duckweed. A man sways on a horizontal bar above the water, falls. Two dogs are standing on the path. Trains travel along railway tracks, a man walks between trains, lies down on the ground. A man in shorts with a bicycle walks to the railway platform.

B&W

5

Cast I. Akhmedov, S. Dolganov, L. Shinova, V. Muravyov