Scarlet Poppies

The film tells about the history of the Samara banner, about the twin cities of Kuibyshev and Stara Zagora. Part 1, Kuibyshev. City street: passing cars, buses, people are passing. Residential building with a mosaic in honor of the Soviet-Bulgarian friendship on Stara Zagora street. River port: building of the river station; there are ships at the pier; people pass. Cafe "Rest" on the embankment. Monument of Glory on Glory Square (sc. P.I.Bondarenko, opened in 1971) Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (author F.O.Bogdanovich-Dvorzhetsky, 1902-1906) Museum of the History of the Volga-Ural Military Troops districts: museum exhibits, among them a copy of the Samara banner. Embroidered icons of the Iberian Mother of God and the Slavic enlighteners Cyril and Methodius on a copy of the Samara banner. The grave of the Russian statesman and public figure P.V. Alabina. Bulgaria, Sofia. View of the city from the top point. People are walking along the street; plaque with NDP on the building: "BULEVARD RUSKI BULEVARD RUSKI". Monument to the Soviet Army (architect D. Mitov, opened in 1954) Bulgaria, Stara Zagora. City street; plaques with NDP on the building: “STREET GEN. STOLETOV "; BOULEVARD GENERAL MD SKOBELEV ". Monument to the Samara banner of the memorial complex "Defenders of Stara Zagora" (established in 1977) Demonstration on the Day of the Liberation of Bulgaria by the Soviet Army from fascism: columns of demonstrators pass along the street with flags and portraits of M.D. Skobelev and N.G. Stoletov. Children dance a Bulgarian folk dance. Meeting of the former partisans of the Second World War, among the veterans - General Velko Dimitrov, Major General Stoyu Chochoolu, Marin Cherkovski. M. Cherkovsky stands at the sculpture of Anton Cherkovsky's son, tortured by the Nazis during the war. Bulgaria, Shipka Pass: there are cannons; graves of Russian soldiers; people ascend to the Freedom Monument (architect A. Donkov, sk. A. Andreev, opened in 1934) Bulgaria, Pleven. Monument "Mother Bulgaria" (opened in 1978) Mausoleum-ossuary of St. George the Victorious (architect P. Koichev, built in 1903-1907). Workers near the sarcophagus of a mass grave, fallen soldiers during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Writer and screenwriter Alexei Alekseevich Solonitsyn, sitting at a table in a cafe, speaks (sinhr., Off-screen) about his great-grandfather Ivan Solonitsyn, who served as a drummer during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Bulgarian artist Hristo Tanev speaks (sinhr., Behind the scenes in Bulgarian, voiceover translation into Russian) about the participation of his grandfather in the Russian-Turkish war. Honorary Citizen of Stara Zagora, Vladimir Alexandrovich Chernov, speaks in the street (sinhr.) About how he fought with the Bulgarians during World War II. General V. Dimitrov speaks (sinhr, behind the scenes in Bulgarian, narration translation into Russian) about the help of the Red Army in the liberation of Bulgaria from fascism. Major General S. Chochoolu speaks (sync, behind the scenes in Bulgarian, voiceover translation into Russian) about those killed in the war. In the 1st part, b / w c / t plans are used: - Bulgaria, 1941-1944. City during the occupation; killed people on the street. A man scatters propaganda leaflets from the roof of a building. Combat action. Bulgarian partisans are passing by; tanks and motorized infantry are passing by. Residents meet partisans. Bulgarian soldiers rise to Shipka; kneel at the Freedom Monument; talking with a veteran of the Russian-Turkish war. Part 1 uses graphic images of military operations on the territory of Bulgaria during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878; painting "Portrait of Grandpa Royu" (author H. Tanev) 2 part Bulgaria, Stara Zagora. View of the city from the top point. Square. People are walking down the street. Hotel building with Bulgarian and Soviet flags on the facade. Part of the memorial complex "Defenders of Stara Zagora"; Monument to the Samara Banner (established in 1977) Visitors are sitting at the tables of the street cafe, among them the Bulgarian poet Stoicho Stoychev. Bulgaria, Sofia. City street: cars are passing by, people are passing by. Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky (architect A. N. Pomerantsev, post. 1904-1912) Plaque on the building with the People's Democratic Party: “STREET GENERAL IV GURKO "; "BOULEVARD MARSHAL F.IV. TOLBUKHIN ". Stoyan and Parking Bonevs at home looking at photographs, reading letters from friends from the Soviet Union. Kuibyshev. View of the city from the top point. Rabochaya street; on the building there is a memorial plaque with a bas-relief of G.M. Dimitrova with the NDP: "IN THIS HOUSE IN 1941 LIVED AND WORKED A PRINCIPAL ACTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT GEORGE DIMITROV". Glory Square. Bulgarian poet S. Stoichev, sitting at a table in a street cafe, reads (sinhr., Off-screen in Bulgarian) his poems. Hero of Socialist Labor, foreman of bricklayers of trust No. 11 of Kuibyshev, Pyotr Prokopyevich Machnev, speaks at home (sinhr., Behind the scenes) about friendship with his Bulgarian colleagues; reads letters from Bulgarian friends. The Kuibyshev poet Valentin Alekseevich Stolyarov speaks at home (sinhr., Behind the scenes) about his book "Scarlet Poppies". In the second part, c / t plans are used: Bulgaria, Stara Zagora, September 1981. The solemn ceremony of consecration of a copy of the Samara banner at the memorial complex "Defenders of Stara Zagora": people at the monument; honor guard at the banner. The soldiers are carrying the Samara banner along the city streets; people kneel before the banner. Monument to Pavel Kalitin (Defenders of the Samara Banner); honor guard at the monument, the soldiers are kneeling. World War II veteran M. Cherkovski speaks (sync., Behind the scenes in Bulgarian, voiceover translation into Russian) about the Samara banner. - Kuibyshev, September 1981. Meeting of the Bulgarian delegation with a copy of the Samara banner at the airport. Members of the Bulgarian delegation are on the streets of the city, among them M. Cherkovski. Cinema building "Shipka". P.P. Machnev and the representative of the Bulgarian delegation in the building. The ceremony of presenting a copy of the Samara banner. Soviet soldiers carry the banner down the street; along the building of the theater of drama. Guard of honor at the Samara banner in the Museum of the History of Troops of the Volga-Ural Military District. The second part uses graphic images of military operations on the territory of Bulgaria during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878.

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scriptwriter Y. Filippov, sound engineer V. Shubin, film director L. Bdil