Consequences and Causes

The film is a reflection on craftsmen and non-professionals. Part 1. Fragment of the speech of the satirist Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky (sinhr.). Moscow city. Professor, candidate of historical and philosophical sciences Igor Semyonovich Kon talks about unprofessionalism in all areas of service and now, in the era of publicity, it has ceased to be a state secret (sinhr.). Economist V. Selyutin says that there was no so-called "stagnation" in the country (sinhr.). The city of Naberezhnye Chelny. May Day demonstration. Columns of workers pass by the rostrum. View of posters on KAMAZ vehicles with the NDP: "PEACE TO WORLD!", "PEOPLE, TAKE THE WORLD!", "DISCHARGE, SOCIALISM AND PEACE ARE INSOVERABLE!" A young man, a girl present at the demonstration, talk about the introduced coupons for food, about the shortage of goods (sync.). View of posters from the 1970s: “MASTER - IT SOUNDS Proud!”, “INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY! MORE HIGHEST QUALITY PRODUCTS ". Newsreel footage, 1929-1935: Presidium. Participants of the working meeting in the hall. The worker is speaking. The part of the machine is rotating. Explosion. Worker in the shop with a hammer in his hands. Three workers lower a hammer onto a metal workpiece. Type of working punching, pressing machines; welding in the workshop. A meeting of workers. The film includes fragments of the film "XVII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Congress of Winners)" (architect No. 2826, 1934): Congress delegates in the hall. L.M. Kaganovich, I.V. Stalin K.E. Voroshilov, A.I. Mikoyan applauded at the podium. Members of the public present gifts - models of a ship, a bus and a tank, a gun, a samovar. I.V. Stalin holds a gun, an accordion in his hands. The order bearer hands over a folder with a report from the Skorokhod shoe factory to L.M. Kaganovich to the presidium. Part 2. The city of Naberezhnye Chelny. Assembly shop of the Kama Automobile Plant. Electronic equipment adjuster Yuri Mansurov talks about the masters of their craft working in the laboratory at the plant; talks about the low professionalism of vocational school graduates (sinhr.). View of car parts. The finished KAMAZ car in the workshop. City Novosibirsk. Schoolchildren in the shop of the leather and footwear association "Ob" for the manufacture of shoes. The head of the shop Lazar Zolotnikov in his office says about the lack of qualified specialists in production, about violations of labor discipline (sinhr.). Moscow city. Professor, candidate of historical and philosophical sciences Igor Semyonovich Kon talks about professionalism (sinhr.). View of posters from the 1930s. with NDP: "STUDY YOUR MACHINE", "EVERYTHING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE QUIET MINIMUM", "NOW WE SHOULD SUPPLEMENT THIS BUSINESS WITH ENTHUSIASM, THE PAPHOS OF DEVELOPING NEW PLANTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGY." Newsreel footage, the city of Leningrad, 1920s. Workers at the entrance to the Krasny Putilovets plant. Type of banner with the PDP: "ON THE DAY OF INDUSTRIALIZATION, NOT A SINGLE DESERT FROM MANUFACTURING 100% CAPACITY TO MACHINES AND MOUNTAINS". Newsreels, the city of Moscow, 1920s. Court session in a comrades' court chaired by R. Zemlyachka over Moscow bureaucrats: assistant prosecutor Borisov, store manager Petrov, head of the labor exchange Pa [o] Roshin, dismissed from their posts. Newsreel footage, 1930s: A group of workers with banners walking along the street; on one of the banners of the NDP: "OUR RESPONSE TO THE IMPERIALISTS -100% SUBSCRIBERS TO THE 13TH LOAN OF INDUSTRIALIZATION." Workers are near industrial buildings. Workers at the machines. Part 3 City of Moscow. Professor, candidate of historical and philosophical sciences Igor Semyonovich Kon speaks about the reasons for the decline in the level of professionalism (sinhr.). Economist V. Selyutin criticizes the economic policy in the country (sinhr.). The city of Naberezhnye Chelny. Yuri Mansurov, an electronic equipment adjuster at the Kama Automobile Plant, talks about the launch of the first automatic line for the production of a crankshaft (sync.). Newsreels, Moscow, 1928-1930 Exhibition dedicated to the work of the Moscow City Council. Visitors to the exhibition. View of the Kremlin embankment in the evening. The building of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Transport traffic on Tverskaya street, on Bolshoy Kamenny bridge, near the building of the hotel "Moscow". The building of the Izvestia newspaper editorial office. Street clock on the square im. Pushkin. Newsreel footage, Lugansk region, [1935] Above-ground structures of the mine [Central - Irmino "]. The miner in the mine. The movement of trolleys with coal on a narrow-gauge railway. Miners enter the mine elevator. Newsreels, Moscow, November 14-17, 1935. The first All-Union meeting of workers and women workers - Stakhanovists. On the podium: members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze. Speech by Alexei Grigorievich Stakhanov. Newsreels, the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, 1974. A column of new KAMAZ vehicles in the shop. On the cab of the head KAMAZ NDP: KAMAZ No. 000001 XXV CONGRESS OF THE CPSU ". Workers in the shop greet the driver of the first car. Workers in the shop. Meeting; on the impromptu podium a banner with the NDP: "THE PEOPLE AND THE PARTY ARE ONE!" Part 4. The city of Novosibirsk. Doctor of Economics, Professor Friedrich Markovich Borodkin talks about the importance of the social environment on the professional level of a person (sync., Behind the scenes). View of the building with a sign: “MINISTRY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY of the RSFSR. NOVOSIBIRSK INDUSTRIAL LEATHER AND SHOE ASSOCIATION "OB". Shoemaker Sergei Stepanov talks about work (sinhr.). Workers making shoes. The city of Leningrad. Turner - milling machine operator of the Lenpoligrafmash plant, production leader Gennady Alekseevich Bogomolov is driving in a car; at the plant shares his experience with workers (sync., behind the scenes). An excerpt from an article by the Tribune of a Mechanical Engineer about the exclusion of G. Bogomolov from the ranks of the CPSU. Newsreel footage, the city of Moscow, the end of the 1930s. A holiday on the Moscow River dedicated to heroes of labor and labor victories. Fireworks. People go boating. Athletes jump into the water. Spectators in the stands. Newsreels, Moscow, November 14-17, 1935. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin at the 1st All-Union meeting of workers and women workers - Stakhanovites delivers a speech: “LIFE HAS BECOME BETTER, LIFE HAS BECOME MORE HUNNER. AND WHEN THE FUN IS LIVING, THE WORK IS ARGUMENTING ... ”(sync.). Newsreel footage, the city of Moscow, [1932-1935] People get off the trolleybus number 51. A worker at one of the factories marks the time of coming to work on the pass. Posters at the plant dedicated to labor discipline: “DO NOT BE A MINUTE LATE! Evil VONS! ", A sign" Honorary truant "on an idle machine. Notes on violations of labor discipline. A poster on the wall with the NDP: "HEALING BALM HEALS WALKING." The type of announcement calling for a comradely trial over the violator of labor discipline. The film shows fragments of newspaper articles: "Leningradsky Rabochy" dated November 1, 1985 and "Komsomolskaya Pravda". Part 5. City of Moscow. Economist V. Selyutin tells the story of an inventor from Tula, who was convicted on a political article for defamation of the social order, saying that living abroad, he could become a millionaire (sinhr.) Sign on the building with the People's Democratic Party: "MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE USSR ... RECEPTION ". People from different regions, cities and republics, while waiting for an appointment, talk about the problems of medicine (sinhr.). View of high-rise buildings in one of the city districts. City Novosibirsk. Soda water vending machine. The man puts a coin into the machine. Empty glass. The man punches the machine gun with his fist. Sparkling water is poured into a glass. Professor Friedrich Markovich Borodkin in his office talks about the relationship between the living conditions of a person and his work (sinhr.). Workers in the workshop of the Ob leather and footwear association. One of the workers of the association says that the quality of imported footwear is much higher than the Soviet one (sync.) A doctor in one of the city's hospitals says that it is inconvenient for the work of hospital slippers supplied to doctors centrally (sync).

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Script writers I. Poberezhsky, E. Starodubtseva, sound engineer I. Ovchinnikov, consultant F.M. Borodkin, editor A. Kosenkov, director A. Moiseev, A. Belats, T. Safonova, A. Akhmadeev, N. Minaev, V. Pshenitsin, V. Andreev, M. Yukcheeva, O. Pak worked on the film