Gift of the Heart

The film is dedicated to the Kuibyshev Regional Commission for Assistance to the Peace Fund. Part 1, Kuibyshev. The Glory Monument, dedicated to the workers of the aircraft industry, on Glory Square (sculptor P.I.Bondarenko, installed in 1971). The eternal flame on Glory Square. Laying flowers at the monument-bas-relief of the Motherland-Mother on Glory Square. A man rides through a snow-covered forest in a horse-drawn sleigh; a dog is running nearby. Children ride on a snow slide. Meeting of the Kuibyshev Commission for Assistance to the Peace Fund. Members of the commission at the table, including Heroes of Socialist Labor. The chairman of the commission is Nina Vasilievna Nazarova. Children in the Kuibyshev Palace of Pioneers at the gathering of school clubs for international friendship. The pioneer on the stage says (sinhr.) About the request to the regional commission for assistance to the Peace Fund to accept money from school clubs. Togliatti. The building of the VOLGOTSEMMASH plant. A sign on the building with the NDP: “ON DECEMBER 9, THE FACTORY SATURDAY IS HELD IN THE PEACE FOUNDATION. EVERYTHING ON SATURDAY ". Workers in the shop. A poster on the machine in the workshop with the NDP: "TODAY WE WORK ON THE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD FUND"; a poster on the wall "THE WORLD WILL WIN THE WAR". Chairman of the factory commission for assistance to the Peace Fund Yuri Ivanovich Osokin with workers in the shop of the factory; speaks (sinhr.) about the plant's contribution to the Peace Fund. The chief mechanic of the Togliatti synthetic rubber plant, Rudnev, and his deputy, Kruglov, are in the office near the drawings. Kuibyshev region, Koshkinsky district, Lenin collective farm. Building of the House of Culture. Members of the collective farm commission for assisting the Peace Fund at a meeting in the building of the House of Culture, including veterans of the Patriotic War Dmitry Petrovich Artemyev, former senior lieutenant Mikhail Dmitrievich Afanasyev. D.P. Artemyev says (sinhr.) About contributing money to the Peace Fund; on participation in the First World War, in the October Revolution, in the Civil War, in the Patriotic War; about their sons. The chairman of the commission says (sinhr.) About the contribution of the collective farm funds to the Peace Fund. First Secretary of the Koshkinsky District Committee of the CPSU Nikifor Timofeevich Makarov says (sinhr.) About the participation of collective farm commissions in replenishing the Peace Fund. The first part uses footage of b / w chronicles: 1946-1973, Vietnam, the Indochina war. Military aircraft take off from the airfield. The shells hit the ground. Explosions from shells. A woman with a wounded child in her arms. Dead children lie on the ground. Crying women. Demonstrations against hostilities on the streets of the city. Demonstrators burn the American flag; police disperse the demonstrators. Part 2 of the city of Kuibyshev. Premises of the pharmacy No. 36, visitors at the display cases with medicines; pharmacists in a pharmacy, in a laboratory at work. The premises of the Savings Bank; people stand in line at the checkout; the bank teller writes a check. Residential building entrance; on the door there is an announcement about a fundraising for the Peace Fund Polina Georgievna Kruchinina, member of the regional commission for assistance to the Peace Fund, at the table in the apartment of the Prokhorov family. Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Mikhailovich Prokhorov with his wife and P.G. Kruchinina in the room at the table. P.G. Kruchinin in his office, on the table there are signature lists of individual voluntary contributions of workers to the Peace Fund. Meeting of the regional commission for assistance to the Peace Fund. Commemorative token and medal of the Soviet Peace Fund on the table. Certificate of honor of awarding Viktor Fedorovich Chastikhin for active participation in the activities of the Soviet Peace Fund. Rewarding of the foreman of the bricklayers of Gidrostroy Evgeny G. Pestryuk. Awarding of the chairman of the VOLGOTSEMMASH commission Yu.I. Osokin. Rewarding of the secretary of the Kuibyshev district party committee Rimma Prokofievna Siskevich. Rewarding the team of the Kuibyshev Drama Theater named after M. Gorky, among those present, the chief director of the theater Pyotr Lvovich Monastyrsky. The head of the section of the regional commission for assistance to the Peace Fund, Anna Nikolaevna Ratnikova, says (sinhr.) About the transfer of money to the Peace Fund by medical pharmacists. Professor, Hero of Socialist Labor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Chairman of the Kuibyshev Peace Committee Tikhon Ivanovich Yaroshevsky in the office among colleagues; examines the patient; talks (behind the scenes) about the incompatibility of war and life. Engineer Ksenia Nikolaevna Barabanova knits in the room while sitting in an armchair; speaks (sinhr.) about his life; on the transfer of their savings to the Peace Fund. Engineer Shafranskaya at the cash desk of the Savings Bank says (sinhr.) About his childhood in wartime. Actress of the M. Gorky Kuibyshev Drama Theater Vera Alexandrovna Ershova reads (sinhr.) Tolganai's monologue from the play "Mother's Field" by Ch. Aitmatov (staged by PL Monastyrsky). Volgograd. People walk along the Mamayev Kurgan to the "Motherland Calls!" (sculptor E.V. Vuchetich, installed in 1967). Fragments of the monument on the Mamayev Kurgan. Laying wreaths at the monument in the Hall of Military Glory on the Mamayev Kurgan; the Guard of Honor passes.

B&W

2

1973