Contemporary №20-21

The movie "Contemporary No. 20-21" tells about the city of Gorky. In the first part, the following filming was used: Newsreels, the city of Gorky, 1988 (b / w). A rally against the construction of an open-cut metro station on Gorky Square. Type of posters with the NDP: "Construction of the metro - underground", "In the historical part of the city, the metro - only in a closed way." A student at the Pedagogical Institute of the Faculty of History speaks about the need to preserve the historic center of the city (sinhr.). Gorky city, 1990. View of the building of the Kanavinsky District Court on July Days Street. Police cars outside the courthouse. Judge, defendants, witnesses in the courtroom. Demolition of old wooden houses by bulldozer. The townspeople are watching with sad faces, the girl is crying. A police officer is on duty at the house. In the second part, the following filming was used: Gorky City, 1990. View of burning lanterns at night. The slogans at the rally with the NDP: "Li Peng is a murderer, the executioner of the Chinese people", "Hands off a free Lithuania", "The policy of the CPSU leads to civil war." Citizens on the embankment. A man with a baby carriage under an umbrella passes by. A brass band is playing. Elderly people are dancing. Queue to one of the outlets. Sale of drinks and pastries. The leader of the liberal party "Democratic Union" Valeria Ilinichna Novodvorskaya on the stage of one of the city parks near empty benches speaks about the departure of the country's citizens from true values, about the high degree of people's delusion, about social passivity (sinhr., Behind the scenes).

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Author - A. Budnikov, editor - B. Kozhin, sound engineer - V. Shubin