Contemporary No 21-22

Newsreel dedicated to the celebration of Easter. Filming was carried out in the city of Kuibyshev, Kuibyshev region. and in the city of Penza. The newsreel featured the clergy of the Kuibyshev and Penza dioceses. First part. Kuibyshev region Rural street view. The girl drives the geese. An elderly woman is sitting on the porch of her house. The woman lays eggs. The building of the temple in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Neronovka, Sergievsky district. The tractor is working on a plot of land. A woman cleans a room in a hut on the eve of Easter. A vase with a bouquet of lilacs stands on the windowsill in the hut. Dilapidated church buildings; broken windows. The building of the Epiphany Church in the village of Kurumoch. People in the church at the service. Entrance to the church. Icons, painting, iconostasis in the church. An elderly woman sits on the steps near the church. Beggars near the church. Village street. A motorcycle with a sidecar pulls away from the house. The woman in the hut is preparing for the celebration of Easter: she puts the cake in the oven, decorates it with icing, puts a plate of painted eggs on the table. Swans in a pond. A man with a camera stands in the tall grass. Branches of a blossoming willow. Already crawling near the tree. Easter service in the church: taking out the shroud; people light candles, cross themselves; a priest with a censer walks around the people in the church. City [Kuibyshev, Penza]. One of the streets of the city. The poster of the film “Romance with a Stone (USA). Passers-by on the street. Religious procession near the church during the Easter service in the evening. Above the entrance to the church, the inscription is glowing: "Christ is Risen!". The second part of. Easter service in one of the churches, procession. A priest with an Easter shamrock near the church. [Kuibyshevskaya obl.] Prisoners on the territory of the prison. Barbed wire on the fence. The city of Kuibyshev. View of the city from the river. One of the streets of the city. Passers-by. The girl is riding a skateboard. Easter service in the church. Church choir. A man with a baby in his arms in a church. Cemetery view. People clean up the graves of their relatives for Easter. Church buildings and bell towers. The girl gives alms to the beggars near the church. The woman is the bell ringer in the bell tower. View of the port from the river; cranes are working. Seagulls in the sky. Acrobats and clowns perform at the arena of the Kuibyshev circus. View of one of the streets in the evening. Swans take off from the reservoir. Easter service in the temple: people are baptized; children present in the temple; the priest brings out the Gospel; candles are burning.

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N. Shumkova, A. Nazarov

1989