Contemporary Number 34

The movie tells about women living out their days in the Penza village of Dubasova. The village of Dubasovo, Penza region. View of abandoned and dilapidated houses. Old women are sitting on a bench near a dilapidated house. An elderly woman in felt boots and a sweatshirt walks along a snow-covered road. View of the bricks and the dilapidated dome of the church in the name of the Tikhvin Mother of God, built in the 18th century. View of graves and fences in the rural cemetery. An elderly woman sharpens a saw in the yard of a house. The type of furnishings in the room: a wardrobe, two chairs, a bedside table, photographs on the wall. Evdokia Fedorovna Zhukova at home talking about her sins (sinhr.). Maria Feodorovna Sobolnikova talks about how she was left without a leg from the age of six, about the hard life during the war years, about the desire to die on her native land - in the village of Dubasovo (sinhr.). The village of Ermolovka, Penza region. View of one-storey and multi-storey buildings. Cars "Zhiguli", "KAMAZ", "UAZ", "Moskvich". The girl is swinging on a swing in the territory of the kindergarten. View of a poster on one of the houses "Decisions of the XXVII Congress of the CPSU - in life." The director of the state farm "Progress" Viktor Ivanovich Buchenkov talks about a large pig-breeding farm, about milk production, about the high profitability of the collective farm: the profit for 1988 was eight million rubles; about the comfortable working and living conditions of rural workers (sync., behind the scenes). Valentina Sergeevna Ladanova, chairman of the executive committee of the Ermolovsky district, in her office says that the bulk of the population, more than two thousand people, lives in the village of Ermolovo on the central estate of the Progress state farm; in the village of Dubasovo - forty people; one old woman lives in the village of Matveevka (sinhr.).

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Editor O. Robinova, sound engineer V. Shubin, announcer O. Robinova