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Abstract
The film tells about commodity exchanges that are just appearing in the USSR, about joint Soviet-foreign companies. 1 part. France, Paris. Champs Elysees; people stand behind fences on the sidewalk, watching the parade on May 8, 1990, dedicated to the victory in the Second World War; musicians are passing by, horse guards are passing by. Triumphal Arch. The movement of the public and cars on the streets of the city. People on one of the streets are looking at the works exhibited by the artist. A man eats fast food on the street. Rotating magazine rack on the Champ de Mars. Eiffel Tower; ascent to the tower. View of Paris from the Eiffel Tower. Tourists at the observation deck. A Japanese tourist is filming a view of the city. Bank building "Credit Commercial de France". Showcase with a clock in one of the shops. Credit Lyonnais Libreservice bancaire ATM. A man approaches an ATM with a bank card. People receive money through an ATM machine. View of the “Galeries Lafaiette” store. Panorama of the building of the oldest French exchange in Montmartre. The exchange hall, where brokers work, who carry out buying and selling on behalf of different companies, transmit information by phone. A security guard in the stock exchange is leafing through a newspaper. Robin Shaw, one of the directors of SUCDEN, which oversees the supply of sugar, discusses the sale and purchase of this product by phone. Brokers of the company "Sukden" at their workplaces in the office of the company. Robin talks (sync. In English with voice-over) about how he bought sugar for an American company. The son of the founder of the company "SUCDEN" Maurice Varsano - Serge Varsano in his office: he sits at the table, smokes and contemptuously examines a Soviet banknote in denomination of 10 rubles. Part 3. France International Futures Market - MATIF. Upper Sugar Exchange. Brokers at work - buy, sell (removed from the passage through the office of the exchange). Broker Alexander Privalikhin buys sugar for Prodintorg. General view of the bank building "CREDIT CJMMERCIAL DE FRANCE". Visitors at the tables of a street cafe. Alexander Privalikhin is sitting at a table with Gavin, a successful trader at SUCDEN. People pass along one of the streets of Paris. View of the store selling cars "MERCEDES-DTNZ". Alexander and Gavin are in a phone booth, talking on the phone. A woman on the streets of Paris, gets into a taxi car. Alexander Privalikhin in a telephone booth, talking on the phone (sinhr.). Alexander and Gavin take the mall elevator. General view of the water park in the shopping center: pools, slides, visitors relax in the water park. The building of the theater "GRAND OPERA". The movement of vehicles along the street. Interview with Alexander Konstantinovich Krivenko (sinhr.), Who talks about foreign capital. Horse racing at the racetrack: riders at a distance. A joint company with France, Prodintern, has been established in Paris, where 60 percent belongs to Prodintern, and 40 percent belongs to the French company InterAGRO. Michel [Dunengo], General Director of InterAGRO, in his office, gives an interview (syncronized in French with voice-over): says that the main task of Prodintern is the ability to earn currency, which you really need; you will get a chance to enter the global market for a long time; mixed capital associations enjoy all rights abroad; they are, in fact, private foreign enterprises; this makes it possible to carry out commercial transactions. The general director of the Prodintern company, Evgeny Kozhukhov, who is Michel Dunego's interlocutor, considers such conditions to be the best for running in future Soviet managers. E. Kozhukhov represents (sync.) Vyacheslav Florensky from Prodintorg, who is undergoing an internship at the company. Unlike the French company InterAGRO, Prodintorg does not have a reserve capital that would provide all the risks associated with buying and selling, in addition, it does not have the opportunity to stimulate workers who are engaged in exchange operations. General view of the exchange hall and brokers. Evgeny Kozhukhov at the clothing wholesale warehouse of the company ["David"]. Clothes on the racks. Eugene talks about (sinhr.) That he is busy selecting a collection of clothes intended for the staff of the Odessa sugar refinery. The store director, Madame Susan Dary, says (syncronized in French with voice-over) that the company sends clothes to Moscow, Leningrad, Riga and other regions of the USSR. We want, says Madame, that the Soviet people dress well. View of Paris at night: the building of the Moulin Rouge cabaret on Boulevard de Clichy. Cabaret concert program, where half-naked dancers perform. Demonstration on the streets of Paris of supporters of the National Front (party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen) under the slogan "France for the French". Part 4. General Director of Prodintern Yevgeny Kozhukhov is in a red jacket, talking (sinhr.) About working with the stock exchange, about the company's profits. The building of the University "PARIS DAUPHINE" ("PARIS DAPHIN") in Paris. Students at a lecture on the planned economy of the USSR and other countries of Eastern Europe. SUGDEN trader Gavin at work, says (sync. In English with voiceover) that in 10 years the broker profession will die, exchanges will become electronic - there will be computers instead of brokers. Philippe [Chelmen], professor at the French National School of Arts and Crafts, speaks (sync. In French with voice-over) about computerization. General view of apartment buildings along the river in Paris. The barges are at the pier. View of one of the shopping centers. Visitors at the tables of a cafe on the street. General view of the building "PAVILION DES ARTS DENISE COLOMB 1990" at the Paris Fort square near Orly airport. Types of the Parisian wholesale market. Selling vegetables, fruits, flowers in the market pavilions. Artichokes, cherry tomatoes, strawberries and other products in boxes. Merchant ships in the Leningrad seaport. Port cranes are loading and unloading: bags of sugar are loaded into containers. And then they are placed in railway wagons. Delivery of meat carcasses by truck to the refrigerator car. The chairman of the association "Prodintorg" Alexander Konstantinovich Krivenko tells (sinhr.) That goods from different countries of the world arrive at the Leningrad port, especially exchange goods from Mexico, Cuba, Germany, Brazil and other countries. In addition, Krivenko says that it is necessary to ensure that our products meet all international standards. Then you can safely work on the stock exchange. Panorama of a working port crane, which unloads raw sugar, arrived from Latin America on the ship "Tula". Panorama of the port of Dunkirk, the main French sugar exporting port in the north of the country. View of the motor ship "Vladimir Gavrilov" at the port berth. Loading operations in the port with full mechanization of the loading process. Transporting bags of sugar using one of the mechanisms operated by only one person.
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Color
Color
Film ID
36871
Keywords
economy
, foreign countries (france)
, everyday life
, sea transport
, state holidays
, cities
, trade
Meterage
840
Number of Parts
6
Release Date
1991
Sound