Northern Lights

The film tells about the life of the small peoples of the Soviet North. FIRST PART. Russia. Northern landscapes (shooting from an airplane): frozen river, snow-covered hills. Mountain ranges, lakes on the Kola Peninsula. A shrub covered with hoarfrost. Northern lights (b / w). The sun behind the cloudy haze. Bay view. A woman rides a reindeer sleigh. Hunters walk along the ice of the river. The hunter smokes a pipe. The city of Leningrad. Doctor of Historical Sciences Vasily Nikolaevich Uvachan in the audience tells students about the peoples of the North (sinhr.); listen to students of different nationalities. Fragment from the feature film "October" (directed by S. Eisenstein, G. Alexandrov, 1927): storming of the Winter Palace (b / w, c / t). Newsreel footage of 1917-1918: text of the document of the military revolutionary committee on the arrest of the Provisional Government; a column of armed sailors is walking along the street; soldiers near Smolny; Decrees on Peace and on Earth. Evenkia, Tura. May Day demonstration in the city of Tours. Demonstrators with balloons, flags, branches are on the streets of the city. The brass band is in the festive column. Girls - Evenki in national costumes. Newsreel footage of 1928-1929: hunters kill a bear; women bang on a log with mallets; a man rides a dog sled; girl and women smoke pipes; the roof flies off the yurt from the wind; the sled is overturned by the wind; shaman dance; the hunter walks across the field in winter; a wounded deer falls into the snow; the heads of the slain deer are on fire; inhabitants of one of the northern pastures; ritual dance of a shaman with a tambourine; Udege people build a yurt-chum in the taiga; the hunter kills the bear with a spear; the Udege are sitting near the chum; a woman with a baby in her arms comes out of the plague; the hunter removes the skin from the killed bear; man, woman and children in the plague; the boy smokes a pipe; a woman shakes a baby in a cradle; a boy in a boat; a boy throws a stone at a bird; the wounded bird falls to the ground; reindeer herders in the “Club of reindeer herders”; a club worker at the gramophone; the teacher conducts a lesson for adult men and women; the doctor talks to the hunter, walks around the yurts in the camp, listens to the boy, talks to his parents; Evenks ride reindeer sleds; Evenki listens to the radio; cinema installation at the camp; the projectionist is loading the film into the movie projector. Newsreel footage of 1923: the first All-Russian agricultural exhibition in Moscow; portrait of V.I. Lenin; visitors near the yaranga; exhibitors - representatives of Kyrgyzstan, the Transcaucasian republics; deer, camel on the territory of the exhibition. THE SECOND PART OF. Russia. Northern landscape: snow-covered river bank. Waves crash on the rocky shore. Cross over the grave on the river bank. Ice-covered boats on the shore. Sunset over a frozen river. Reindeer. Northern lights (b / w). Newsreel footage 1928-1929: Bonfires are burning near the heads of slain deer. The city of Pushkin. The building and the main staircase of the Catherine Palace. Lake, pavilion on the shore in the Catherine Park. The city of Leningrad. The building of the Pedagogical Institute. Herzen. View of one of the bridges. Monument to Peter I ("The Bronze Horseman"). Signboard with the inscription: "Institute of the Peoples of the North". Palace Square. The tram stops at a stop, passengers get off the tram. Newsreel footage of the 1930s: a train on a wooden bridge; fishermen on the shore; an elderly man gives his son a pipe; the girl walks with a bundle of firewood; animal skins are dried on a wooden frame; the hunter is cleaning the gun; the girl smokes a pipe; a Nanai youth with a pigtail; Nanai girl; the son says goodbye to his father in the pasture, the young man gets into the boat; students - representatives of northern peoples in the audience at a lecture, in a physics laboratory, in a workshop, mold a sculpture of a deer, paint landscapes. Pictures of the first Nanai artist K. Pankov. Moscow city. VN Uvachan in the viewing room of the Central Documentary Film Studio recalls his first visit to Leningrad (sync). Newsreel footage: buildings collapse in Leningrad (1941-1943); an architectural and sculptural memorial at the Piskarevskoye cemetery. Northern village on the shore of the bay. Fishermen's nets on the shore. Traffic and pedestrian traffic on the streets of Norilsk. View of one of the city streets. Cucumbers and tomatoes in the greenhouse. Winter garden, indoor fountain. The excavator works in a quarry. Loading ore onto a dump truck. A dump truck drives by on the road. The plane lands at the airfield. Passengers go down the plane; among the passengers - V. N. Uvachan. Komsomol card, photographs from different years, books "The path of the peoples of the North to socialism", "The peoples of the North in the conditions of developed socialism" VN Uvachan. Students of different nationalities in the audience listening to a lecture by V. N. Uvachan (sinhr.) A herd of deer in the forest. THE THIRD PART. Meteorological instruments at the snow-covered area of the northern meteorological station. The girl writes down the data of the devices. Blizzard. Launching the probe. A man is riding a reindeer sleigh. Trucks are driving along the highway. Snow-covered hills. The YAK-40 passenger plane will land at the airport. Takeoff of a passenger plane. VN Uvachan in the aircraft cabin. Icebreaker "Arktika" moves in ice; icebreaker captain in the wheelhouse. Logging; a logger is working. Loading lumber at the port. Helicopter view of an oil rig in Tyumen. Installation of one of the sections of the pipeline. Oil storage. Evenkia, Tura. Residential buildings. A schoolgirl walks along the wooden flooring near the house. Announcer in the radio studio (sync.). Women, children, in the courtyard of the house. The hunter rides a reindeer sleigh. A hunter with a gun walks through the forest, shoots a gun. A hunter near the house examines the fur skins hanging on a rope. View of the taiga from a helicopter. A herd of deer in the forest. Reindeer breeder with reindeer. Performance and rehearsal of the "Osiktakon" amateur choreographic ensemble. One of the Evenki schools: students in classes at lessons of drawing, physics, etc. The incandescent lava of an erupting volcano. The molten metal is poured into molds. Molten metal pours. Steel-making shop. Molten metal is poured from the ladle. VN Uvachan in the park on the shore of the Northern Lights reservoir (b / w).

Color

3

1987