Metamorphoses or a View From Prison

Part I. City of Moscow. Lenin's Mausoleum. Changing of the guard of honor at the Mausoleum. Memorial cemetery at the Kremlin wall. Chronicle footage: Leon Trotsky speaks; a steam locomotive is moving; a collective farm woman hugs J. V. Stalin; destruction of churches and monuments; confiscation of church valuables; famine in the Volga region. Parts I-II. A disabled boy, blind from birth, talks with a doctor in a hospital ward (synchronously). The mother of a disabled person at a reception with an official - the head of one of the funds, asks for money for the operation (synchronously) A disabled boy sings (synchronously). Queue to the grocery store. Queue numbers written on the hands of people. The trial of N.P. Tregubov. Empty counters and back rooms of one of the stores. Distributor store called "Therapeutic Nutrition Canteen". The head of the "canteen" gives interviews (synchronously). Store staff serve customers. Assortment of goods in the distributor. Part III. Canteen in one of the places of detention. Prisoners have dinner, march in formation across the territory; work. Former Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan E. Aitmuratov, former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers V. S. Vyshku give interviews (synchronously). Seizure of valuables during a search from one of the dealers (video filming). T. K. Gdlyan gives interviews (synchronously). 1991 year. Queues at one of the savings banks, people are giving interviews, crying (synchronously). Footage: honoring Leonid Brezhnev, a festive demonstration in Tashkent. Part IV. Volumes of criminal cases on the trial of responsible trade workers in Moscow. Receipts for donating money to the Chernobyl Fund and the Peace Fund. Yu Churbanov in the colony. Galina Brezhneva in the interiors of her apartment, gives interviews (video filming). Garage of the Brezhnev dacha. The territory and buildings of one of the hunting reserves. Volume of the criminal case accused of raping the son of a high-ranking official, V. Kitaev. The girl-victim gives an interview (synchronously). Part V. Market. Street musicians are playing. Rehearsal and performance of an amateur vocal and instrumental ensemble of one of the colonies, the soloist A. V. Makarov sings (synchronously) (I, V hours). Former Afghan A. V. Makarov tells about his life and destiny (synchronously). Afghanistan. Soviet soldiers on duty, on armored personnel carriers. Dushmans. Combat operations (video filming). Territory of the dacha village "Dachnaya Polyana" of large Soviet military leaders. The wife of one of the marshals speaks (off-screen). Soldiers are building a dacha for Dutov, the Deputy Minister of Defense for Finance. The territory of the dacha of the Deputy Minister of Defense Kochetov. Demonstration and rally of soldiers' mothers in Moscow. A refugee tent camp near the Rossiya hotel. Delegates to the Congress of the CPSU are passing by. Part VI. Moscow city. The leader of the Unity movement gives interviews, talks with a non-professional performer of the role of I. Stalin (synchronously). The trial of the leader of the "Memory" society Ostashvili. A member of the Memory Society gives interviews (synchronously). The audience in the court, outside the courthouse. Police. Refugees - victims of ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus in a hostel, give interviews (synchronously). Part VII. National conflict in Baku, Azerbaijan (video filming): wounded and killed, mutilated people of different sex and age. Burnt and disfigured corpses, destruction, tanks and troops on the streets of the city. Moscow city. Passers-by on the streets of Moscow. Meeting of lovers. An actor in makeup and costume of I. Stalin walks along Arbat Street. Demonstration and rally of democratic forces (synchronously).

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1991