Contemporary Number 12

In the movie "Contemporary No. 12" tells about the deficit in the city of Kuibyshev. The city of Kuibyshev, 1988 A queue to one of the grocery stores. A woman with a bottle of milk in her hands talks about the shortage of food in the city (sinhr.). View of the building of the city Office of Trade and the Regional Office of Public Catering. A trolleybus passes along the street, passers-by are walking. Type of canned food in the grocery store: herring "Iwasi", "Breakfast of a tourist". The vendor lays out the sweets on the shelf. View of the building of the regional public catering department. RSU engineer Valentina Petrovna Glukhonkaya talks about the division of scarce goods by the employees of the Office in the canteen among themselves, about bringing food products from the restaurant (sync.). View of the building of the city department of the party. The head of the department of administrative and trade and financial bodies of the city party committee, Viktor Grigorievich Grishin, talks in his office about the reasons for the shortage of goods: non-observance of the rules of Soviet trade, dishonesty of trade workers; speaks of an annual decrease in deficit (sync.). Type of articles in newspapers: "Deficiency Syndrome", "Deficiency", "Why is kefir in short supply." An article in the newspaper "Soviet Russia" dated December 31, 1987 under the headline: "The supply of toothpaste from Egypt has begun." Newsreel footage: The city of Kuibyshev, 1987: the type of food products discovered by the OBKhSS employees in the back rooms of grocery stores.

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Lyricist L. Sadkova, sound engineer V. Shubin, editor O. Teplenko