The film tells about the participation of residents of the city of Tarusa, as well as the villages of Lopatino, Baryatino, Kaluga region in crowd scenes on the set of the film "Ivan Chonkin" (working title). 1 part. The set of the film "Ivan Chonkin": general view of a wooden shed on a site fenced off, the shed explodes and burns as a result of artillery shelling from a cannon. Explosions, fire, soldiers fall from the blast wave. View of the heads of the film crew. The director on a megaphone instructs the actors to return to their original positions (sync.). A man rides a motorcycle with a sidecar on the road. In the background is a ruined temple. View of the glade where the film crew is located. Members of the documentary film crew are sitting on the veranda of the house, talking (sync. And behind the scenes.). Score. Customers in the store. One of the members of the film crew - the foreman, who is responsible for the work of the extras, notes from the list of those present (club premises). The crowd members receive costumes and change. The foreman gives the task for the current shooting day (sync.). Young men - students of the Lyceum, who in the film play the Red Army soldiers, at a rehearsal of one of the scenes in the film. The director and cameraman are talking behind the scenes. The foreman of the crowd is talking with the guys during a break from filming (sinhr.). The guys exchange impressions, a group of guys goes to the pond, then all together return to the shooting location after the break. The director gives the command to start shooting. Red Army guys in white camouflage coats are rehearsing another scene of the film. After the next rehearsal, the foreman of the crowd talks to them (sinhr.). General view of the shooting location. The director on a megaphone gives the command to start filming the episode with the participation of extras, where the Red Army guys are involved. The director (sync and per frame) gives instructions to the extras. Part 2. The guys - members of the crowd, depicting the Red Army men get into the van of the car, drive. Together with the guys, the brigadier of the crowd is going, talking with the guys (sinhr.). It's raining. The man - the foreman of the extras of the film "Ivan Chonkin" walks under an umbrella, enters one of the houses, talks to the hostess, whom he invites to take part in the filming of the extras. The extras foreman approaches another house, talks over the fence with another woman, whom he also invites to shoot extras. A resident deoevni collects water in buckets at the column. A Zaporozhets car drives along a village street, soggy from the rain. View of a residential apartment building. The woman is standing on the balcony. The extras foreman invites one of the residents of the house to take part in the extras. View of an elderly woman on the street. The foreman of the crowd is talking with a woman who, in one of the scenes of the film, plays a tradeswoman in the market. People's Artist of Russia Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov on the set of the film "Ivan Chonkin": passes among the participants of the crowd, is photographed with one of the girls. A woman - a member of the film crew corrects G. Khazanov's makeup. Working moment of filming one of the episodes of the film: the actors involved in the film rehearse a scene in the market, the director gives them instructions. G. Khazanov among the artists, laughing. The villagers watch the working moments of the filming. Shooting an episode of the film on the market. The director gives the command "Stop, shot." Part 3. Participants of the crowd involved in the episode in the market stand behind the counters, talking. Market territory view. The actresses involved in the film sing ditties to the accompaniment of an accordion player (sync.). View of a wooden bridge over the river. People on the bridge: sitting, standing. Participants of the crowd go one after another, to the place where they are paid money for taking part in the filming. The foreman of the crowd gives out money according to the list. The boy is driving the cow. The guys playing the role of the Red Army in the crowd on the set of one of the episodes at night: marching, singing (sinhr.). The megaphone director expresses his gratitude to all the crowd scene artists (sync.). The crowd members are resting. The car is driving on a country road. View of a house near the highway in one of the settlements. A bus is going by. The horse is grazing in the meadow. Village view. The interior of a room in one of the houses. Panorama from the photographs on the walls. The car drives along the village street. The inscription on the van "Bogdan and the brigade". Other cars are going by. The woman at the window. Workers of the film crew of the film "Ivan Chonkin" are assembling rails for the camera for filming the next episode. Participants of the crowd follow each other from the building where they changed their clothes to the shooting location.