North Caucasus Number 21

A special issue of the newsreel tells about the events that took place on December 1-2, 1988 in the city of Ordzhonikidze, when the 4th grade students of the 42nd secondary school were taken hostage by armed bandits. The plot uses the following filming: A student of the 4th grade of the 42nd secondary school tells (sync.) About the events of December 1, when, after visiting the printing house, the schoolchildren with the teacher were deceived as hostages and put on a bus. Travel through the city of Ordzhonikidze to the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. December 2nd. A police captain at school No. 42, where the headquarters was organized, where all information about the hostages was gathered. General view of the parents of schoolchildren taken hostage. The foyer of the airport, where the parents have gathered in anticipation of their children. The school director tells (sinhr. And off-screen.) That after the first hostage girl was released, everyone learned that the class teacher of the 4th grade Natalya Vladimirovna Efimova calms the children, does not let them lose heart, tells them fairy tales. Meeting of parents with children released as a result of a successful operation. Natalya Vladimirovna Efimova answers the correspondents' questions in monosyllables, referring to fatigue (sync. And for the frame.). Children with their parents on the bus. The bus pulls up to the school. A crowd of people at the school. 5th of December. Schoolchildren in the class. Behind the scenes, conversations and discussions of past events are heard. December 17. Solemn meeting at the school of the participants in the operation to free the children; among them are Sheremetyev, Batagov and others. Children greet their liberators, give them flowers, parents present them with bread and salt, treat them with pies. Performance by the school musical ensemble. January 1989. Schoolchildren's trip to Moscow: visiting the Children's Fund, meeting with the chairman of the fund, writer A. Likhanov; children eat ice cream, watch the performance of the artist Vinogradova with the doll Kiryusha (sync. and for the frame.); visiting Red Square, the Mausoleum, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin wall; travel of a bus with children in Moscow. New Year's ball at the tree. The class teacher of the 4th grade of the 42nd school N.V. Efimov in the courtroom, where the bandits who took the children hostage are being tried. Panorama of the bandits in the dock.

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I. Cherdzhieva, R. Tuaev, V. Kachurin, R. Kadzova