If I Had a Million

The film tells about the reasons for the economic recession in Russia, about the relationship between the state and society in the economic sphere in a democratic society. 1 part. Moscow. City street. Paveletsky railway station square: stalls on the square; an elderly woman buys tomatoes; a man buys cheese; a woman sells parsley; the seller empties the carrots from the bag; young man buys jeans. Type of price tags for clothes. The journalist asks passers-by questions about the market economy (sinhr.) On the square of the Paveletsky railway station. Type of books on economics in English, among the magazines "New World"; books on the shelf. Economist, publicist Boris Semenovich Pinsker and economist, Doctor of Economics Larisa Ivanovna Piyasheva at home talk (sinhr.) About the causes of the economic recession in Russia, about the relationship between the state and society in the economic sphere in a democratic society. Part 2. Moscow. Paveletsky railway station square; the premises of the station. The movement of cars on the street. Schoolchildren wash their cars on the street. Russian commodity and raw materials exchange: brokers in the exchange hall; employees at work on computers; scoreboard in the floor of the stock exchange. Passers-by on the street, brokers of the Russian Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange argue (sync.) About what they would do, if they had a million, about their work. L.I. Piyasheva and B.S. Pinsker talk (behind the scenes) about the reasons for the economic recession in Russia, about the relationship between the state and society in the economic sphere in a democratic society. In the second part photographs were used: L. I. Piyasheva in different years; politician Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov with the NDP “Path to Freedom”. Books by A. V. Chayanov, D. Orwell, Schopenhauer, R. Kafka.

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1991