Broadway Black Sea

A small tent city called "Broadway" every summer spontaneously appears on a wild beach in the vicinity of Tuapse. People come here as "savages" who cannot even afford a cheap family holiday home. It is almost a virtual city that will not be tomorrow, growing for the season. Here they suffer and fall in love, play and lose, here they are born and die in such a short time - summer vacation. 1 part. Transportation of a camel by car. The owner of the attraction carries a power meter in the aisle between street stalls, installs it on the embankment, invites vacationers to measure the force of their impact (sync.). Men and boys hit the power meter. A lifeguard, his assistant and a boy in a lifeguard's house, a lifeguard hangs photographs of girls on the wall. Vacationers sunbathe on the beach. Photographer Zhenya on the beach photographs women on a camel. Part 2. A boy on the beach sculpts a sand tower. Boy with a camel on the seashore. Boy in a street trade tent. A cotton candy saleswoman winds thin strands of molten sugar on a stick; a boy is standing next to him. Plaque with the inscription: "Homemade cold beer". A man sits at a table near a chessboard. Men enter a public dirty men's toilet, enter and exit stalls. The cleaning lady washes the floors in the toilet. On the roof of the building there is an inscription: "WELCOME". Camping tent camp. People fry kebabs, cook food, dine, wash, play cards, sleep, wash and hang clothes, wash dishes in a bucket near their cars and tents. The boy reads the prayer "Our Father" (sync.) Plastic bottles are thrown around the tent. A seller of waffle rolls and oriental sweets, photographer Zhenya with an artificial palm tree and a monkey are walking along the beach. The photographer puts an artificial palm tree on the beach. A man makes a massage to the kebab maker Vartan in the camp of vacationers. Part 3. In the camp of vacationers: a man does a massage, Vartan and a masseur agree on a price (sinhr.); near the car there is a table on which dishes are placed, under the table there are boxes with bottles; woman applies cream to the girl's back near the car. Vacationers on the beach. Waves at sea. The situation in the lifeguard's house, the boy reads the text in English (sync.). Photographer Zhenya dines in a cafe, feeds a monkey, talks with a kebab maker Vartan about work, about the future of children (sinhr.). Vacationers measure the force of impact on a power meter. The owner of the ride congratulates the man who made the hardest hit, hands him a bottle of brandy and makes a toast (sync.). The kebab maker Vartan tells an anecdote while having dinner in a cafe with friends (sinhr.) Part 4. A drunken young man with a frown sings the song "Combat" in karaoke (verses by the poet A. Shaganov, composer I. Matvienko, the song was released by the ensemble "Lube" in the album "Combat" in 1996). The waitress clears the dishes from the table where Vartan is sitting with his friends. Vartan makes a toast to those who died prematurely (sinhr.) Men at the table drinking while standing. Vacationers dance in a cafe. Vartan shoots at the shooting range. The cover on the roof of the car sways in the wind. A lifeguard runs to the beach, provides first aid to a drowned young man. Early in the morning Vartan approaches the car in which the young man is sleeping, he will be his. The women are folding the film in a stall in which a man sleeps. The lifeguard raises the flag near the lifeguard's house. A lorry in which young people are sleeping is passing by the stalls. Campers sleep on a cot. Girls swing on a swing suspended from a bridge. Children swim on a car camera in the river near the bridge. The car drives to the beach at high speed, stops under the bridge, teenagers get out through the windows of the car onto the bridge. The teenager is swinging on a swing. Part 5. The boy is carrying a bicycle across the bridge. Teenagers swing on a swing, jump into the water. Girls swim on a car camera near the bridge. Teenagers jump into the water from a high bank. Teenagers are pushing a car, driving in a car at high speed along the road along the seashore. Men and women without clothes sunbathe and swim on the "nude" beach. Teenagers watch tourists on a nude beach through a telescope and binoculars. Wife's photographer takes pictures of vacationers with a monkey, counts the money. An ice cream vendor walks along the beach. Woman eating ice cream on the beach. The soldiers line up on the seashore, swim in the sea, dress, and march along the beach in formation. The woman rocks the baby, holding his arms and legs. Photographer Zhenya walks along the seashore with an artificial palm tree and a camel. The monkey runs after the photographer walking along the beach. The monkey runs after the dog on the beach. A monkey on a chain near a young man on the beach. The photographer hits the monkey, the monkey screams. Part 6. Vacationers sit at tables in a cafe. Photographer Zhenya drinks beer, gives beer to the monkey, scolds the monkey for spilled beer, talks to the monkey (sinhr.). The girls are standing near the beach changing room, which shows a girl in a swimsuit. A pregnant woman on the beach is doing gymnastics, young dads are doing gymnastics with their children. Children on the beach bury their grandmother in the sand. A pregnant woman, accompanied by a man and a woman, carefully walks along the sea at the foot of the mountain. A photographer with a monkey walks along the embankment, enters the shooting gallery, buys beer, leaves the shooting gallery, walks along the stalls, gets into the car. View of campers in the evening. The chef is preparing in the kitchen in the cafe. A car with one headlamp on is driving along the road along the sea, on the embankment (in the car, teenagers speak loudly in profanity). A kebab seller in a cafe at the table counts the money. The kebab maker Vartan and the former artist of the Tbilisi circus dwarf Misha are having dinner in a cafe. Vacationers near the amusement ride-force meter. A woman gives birth in the sea; next to her is a man and a woman, a fire is burning on the shore. Part 7. Shashalychnik Vartan and dwarf Misha are having dinner in a cafe. Visitors sit at tables in a cafe. Vartan puts the dwarf Misha on the table. Misha goes through the cards, pierces the balloon, the balloon remains unchanged. The audience applauds. General view of the cafe in which the dwarf Misha is performing. Vartan puts a glass of vodka on his head, goes up to the dwarf Misha, who drinks vodka without hands, like a hussar. The musicians are preparing for a performance in a cafe. A tall girl dances with the dwarf Misha in a cafe. Drunk photographer Zhenya in the evening in the courtyard of his house puts a monkey on a chain. There is a camel tied to the bumper near the car. The woman gives birth in the sea. A woman helping her lifts a newborn girl above the water. Part 8. Vacationers dance in a cafe; among the dancing couples - the dwarf Misha and the tall girl. Vartan burns a stool, says that this is the last evening and tomorrow there will be no one here (sinhr.). The singer sings the song "Oh, what a woman" (sinhr.), The musician plays the electric piano. Vacationers measure the force of impact on an attraction - a power meter. Lightning flashes. Barbecue Vartan sleeps in the car. Waves roll onto the beach. Campers gather their things in the rain. Water flows through the awning onto the table, people are hiding in the tent from the rain. A pile of plastic bottles lies in a puddle near the tent. A man walks around the tent, drives in a peg in the rain. Gurgling in a mud lake. The kebab maker Vartan lies in a mud lake. Vacationers smeared with mud in the lake and on the lake shore. A young man smeared with mud is photographed. A boy near the lifeguard's house recites the text in English (sync.). A lifeguard and a boy with things are passing by the stalls. Several general plans of the campground, filmed from one point, but at different times with fewer cars and tents, the last plan was filmed in the evening. Waves run ashore, wash away the sand castle. The dwarf Misha is shooting a shiny ball near the cafe. Teenagers talk against the backdrop of the setting sun.

Color

8

2002