Mother of Cheese Earth

The film tells about the dramatic fate of the Russian peasantry in the 20th century. The film includes the following filming: 1h. Landscapes of the Belgorod region. Fragments from the film by A. Dovzhenko "Earth". Newsreel footage of the 20s: mowers working in the field, harvesting hay, plowing the land, sowing in the field. Fragments from the film "October" by S. Eisenstein. Newsreel footage: the demolition of the monument to Alexander III in 1918 in Moscow, the actions of the 1st Cavalry Army during the Civil War, the division of the land by the peasants. Fragments of the film "Forty-first" by Y. Protazanov. Consecration of the memorial cross installed in the Belgorod region. Interview with Archbishop John (sinhr.). 2h. Newsreel footage: Mikhail Kalinin presents awards to collective farmers, threshing grain on one of the farms, making and repairing clamps in a workshop, peasants joining collective farms, cultivating the land, harvesting grain on the fields of one of the farms, building objects of the first five-year plan. rural settlements in the Belgorod region. View of abandoned outbuildings, abandoned agricultural machinery. Winter landscape. Residents of the village of Bolshebykovo commemorate their fellow villager at the memorial table. Fragments of the film "Earth". 3h. Interview with the Governor of the Oryol Region E.S. Stroev (sinhr.). Newsreel footage of the 1950s: seeing off Azerbaijani Komsomol members to the virgin lands, a view of the village of virgin lands, the work of combines in the field. The family of the Belgorod farmer V. Cherkesov at the festive New Year's table. V. Cherkesov in the field during the planting of vegetable crops. Employees V. Cherkesov in the working room at the computer. Newsreel footage: planting a forest belt. Stills from the film-opera "Boris Godunov" (sinhr.) 4h. Interview with writer Kawad Rush (sinhr.). Fragments from the films "Peter the First" and "Liberation". Newsreel footage of the Great Patriotic War: battles for Berlin, a view of one of the villages burned down by the Nazis, cultivation of land in one of the farms liberated from the occupation, planting potatoes in one of the farms in the Belgorod region. The writer V. Belov reads poetry (sinhr.). Kolkhoz chairman Frunze V.Ya. Gorin with his wife at home, gives interviews (sinhr.), Talks with workers of the collective farm motor depot. Celebrating the oil-girl in one of the villages. 5h Combine harvesters in the field. Distribution of grain of the new harvest to workers of one of the Belgorod farms .. Governor of the Belgorod region E.S. Savchenko gives an interview (sinhr.) In his office in the presence of film director N. Ryapolov. Harvesting beets in one of the farms. Land cultivation. 6h. Monument to F.M. Dostoevsky in the cab of the truck. Writer V. Rasputin with his granddaughter. Demonstration on the streets of Belgorod in honor of the anniversary of the Great October Revolution. Interview with Archbishop John of Belgorod (sinhr.). View of the commemorative cross in the field. Landscape of the Belgorod Region: fields, forests, rural settlements. Grandmother prepares her granddaughter for the New Year: she puts a crown on her head. Grandfather and grandson are watching the album.

Color

6

2003