Centuries and Years

The film is dedicated to the history of Checheno-Ingushetia. Part 1: A highlander stands on a mountain plateau, fog, in the background - snow-capped mountain peaks. Tower in the mountains. Cr.pl. - the face of an elderly man in a fur hat. Mountain lake, rocks along the banks, Poland. Boulders on a plateau in the mountains. Archaeologists unearth an ancient burial ground, take out a skull, take measurements. An archaeologist girl lays out shards from the mound on the ground. General view of the excavation site. Forest in the mountains. Archaeologists are sitting by a fire in the forest. Sculptural portraits of ancient Vainakhs - men and women. Wooden sculptures depicting the Vainakhs. Ancient watchtowers in the mountains. NDP at one of the towers. General view of the tower city - a monument of history and architecture. Inside view of the dwelling tower. The recreated life of the tower-dwelling. The mark of the master stonemason on one of the stones of the tower (the outline of his hand carved into the tower). Carved ornaments on stone. B / w k / t: Tersk region, early XX century, mullah calls Muslims to prayer, men to prayer; women in the street of a mountain village roll wool; the men carry the hay in the street; a group of Caucasian women walking along a mountain path; a woman with a bale on her back climbs the mountain; a man making a wooden product by a stone fence; a man and a woman plow the land with a plow pulled by bulls, a child is tied to the woman's back; a little boy helps his father to plow; a woman works at a loom; a woman kneads dough by the oven on the street; a woman is breastfeeding a baby; view of one of the mountain villages; cr.pl. - faces of elderly highlanders; mountain waterfall; Black Sea province, 1914, tsarist troops marching along a mountain road, brass band musicians are in front; Cossack detachments are building up in the mountains; May 21, 1914, a parade of troops in Krasnaya Polyana in honor of the conquest of the Western Caucasus, Nicholas II with his retinue receives the parade; Russian officers in the mountains. Photos of the rebels in 1877. against the tsarist power of the Chechens (the mountain poor headed by Alibek Aldanov). Part 2. B / w k / t: Tersk region, 1910-1917, Grozny, wooden oil rigs; [1918], North Caucasus, red cavalrymen galloping across the plain; a detachment of crane Chechens and Ingush gallops along a mountain road; 1918, view of destroyed buildings in a mountain village; the girls at the house in the village are smiling; children eat tortillas; a little boy holds an ear of corn in his hands; the little mountain girl eats; an elderly highlander climbs the steps to the roof of the house; Grozny, 1920, Poland on oil rigs, trains with oil are going, 1920, girls-miners enter school, sign “GALASHKINSKAYA FIRST STAGE SCHOOL”; children sit at their desks in class; girls and boys leave school, play in the yard; 1930s, Tersk Region, a tractor with a red flag is driving, followed by collective farmers; a mountain woman driving a tractor is driving across the field; the first international wedding (the bride is Ossetian, the groom is Ingush), young people and guests leave the house, girlfriends and the bride sit in the carriage, men sit at the table in the courtyard of the house, dancing at the wedding; a banner against the background of the monument to VI Lenin "OIL FIVE YEARS IN 2.5 YEARS"; workers are building an oil rig; construction of oil fields in Grozny, oil is flowing; oil workers are walking along the road, ahead is a brass band, in the background are oil rigs. Photos of the Bolsheviks who led the struggle for Soviet power in Grozny in 1917. Group photographs of Red Cossacks, Chechens, workers' battalions defending Grozny from parts of the White Army. Grozny, a monument to the fighters who fell for Soviet power in the hundred-day battles in 1918, the NDP on mountain rocks, clouds over the peaks. Mountain waterfall. Mountain landscapes, a river in a gorge.PNR based on the bust of Aslambek Sheripov, commander of the Chechen Red Army. A sculptural portrait of the Ingush revolutionary Gapur Akhriev. A house in a mountain village, a plaque on the wall “IN THIS HOUSE IN FEBRUARY AND APRIL 1918. GK ORDZHONIKIDZE, ORGANIZER AND LEADER OF THE GUERRILLA MOVEMENT IN THE TERK REGION, WAS POSTED. Photos of mountaineers - soldiers of the Red Army. Photos of Chechen and Ingush elders, highlanders holding a poster "YEAR OLD WORLD, CHANGE IS COMING!" ... Girls collect maple leaves in the park, lay them on the grave. Cr.pl. - girls' faces. New buildings in Grozny (removed from a passing car). Regular bus. Cars, scooter driving along the road. Construction of a residential building. Cars go over the bridge over the river, pedestrians are walking. An elderly man in a fur hat is standing in the street. The selection committee in one of the institutes of Grozny, the girl answers the questions of the examiners. The girls are sitting at their desks in the audience, preparing to answer the tickets. Applicants and their parents are on the list of applicants, cr.pl. - faces of future students. NDP on oil tanks. The mower is working in the field. A foreman and a weaver at a loom in a factory. Vietnamese colleagues in the shop of one of the factories. A woman gets into the cockpit of a military plane, the plane takes off. Attaching the award to the banner of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in a solemn atmosphere. Drillers work at a rig at an oil well, commissioning of a rig at a well. Cr.pl. - oil storage.

B&W

2

1970