Sunflowers

The film tells about the problems associated with child neglect and homelessness, about the role of the family in the life and upbringing of children, about the consequences of the armed conflict between North Ossetia and Ingushetia in 1992, which played a negative role in the lives of children. A glade of dandelions at the edge of the forest. The boy runs out into the clearing, blows on a dandelion, runs through the meadow, lies among the dandelions. Panorama from a window to a painting with a religious plot on the wall. A baptismal gown is put on the boy, the priest blesses him. Parents are standing with children in their arms in the church before the communion ceremony. The priest gives communion to the children. One of the priests reads the Psalter, another priest says a prayer in front of the iconostasis (sinhr.). Waterfall in the mountains. Young actors are rehearsing a play based on Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince". The director suggests the words of the text (sync.). A boy in the hall watching a rehearsal. A fragment from the play (sinhr.) With the participation of an adult and a young actor. B / W footage: a young woman shakes a child in her arms, a lullaby sounds off-screen, a panorama of the room in which she is sitting - this is a bedroom in the Children's House of the City Health Department. Children stand in cribs, watch and listen to the song. BRUSHENKI. Signpost with the inscription "Children's Home of the City Health Department." B / W footage: a woman next to a little boy, who is standing in his bed. A panorama of children lying in cribs. Pupils of the Children's Home in the playroom with toys. Some of the children are crying. The teacher takes the child from the crib in his arms, carries it in his arms. Interview with the director of the orphanage (sync. And for the frame.), Which tells that the main contingent of children in the orphanage are children from disadvantaged families, as well as children with neuropsychiatric diseases. The pupils of the Orphanage - all in the same clothes, sit down at tables, have an afternoon snack, then walk on the playground. Color shots: pupils of the Orphanage for a walk. One of the boys reads poetry (sinhr.). REFUGEES.B / W footage: a panorama from the forest to a group of street children by a fire on the river bank. Children bake potatoes, eat them. One of the girls present, who is six years old, reads poetry (sync. And off-frame.). A woman sits on a stone, lost in thought, a boy walks through the forest. The spider weaves a web. Panorama of the treetops in the forest. Part 2. WILDHOOD. B / W footage of the chronicle of the military conflict between North Ossetia and Ingushetia in the Prigorodny District of the Siberian Branch in 1992: Panorama from the field to the tank. The soldiers walk along the road past the armored personnel carriers. Military vehicles are driving along the street of one of the settlements in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. People on the street are watching the passing vehicles. A view of a burning house. A man with a gun is trying to cross a mountain river. General view of the destroyed building. Local residents are standing, one of the women is crying. Armed men from the local militia are running by. The corpse of a murdered man by the road. There is a police car and other cars on the highway. A column of armored personnel carriers on the road. Panorama of the building with broken glass in the windows. Soldiers and militias in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. Ruins of houses. General view of the cemetery where the victims of the conflict are buried. A panorama of the graves of the victims. People stand at the graves, light candles, lay flowers. A group of street children on the river bank. Children talk about hostilities, which they witnessed and about their participation in the protection of their native settlements (sync. And for the frame.). The director or correspondent asks the children questions behind the scenes. Color shots: A boy, possibly a young artist, who has already appeared in the first part of the film, says the text from "The Little Prince" (sync.) B / W shots: A man opens the lock on the door of the children's reception -distributor, street children leave the house without permission and lead a free lifestyle. The man closes the receiver door. General view of the reception center, where children are temporarily housed. The head of the children's room of the police Daniil Gurtsiev comments on the situation with street children (sinhr.) Color shots: People on one of the streets of the city. A homeless boy sits on the street collecting alms. B / W footage: Carousel in the park. The boy in the children's room of the police answers the questions of the police officer: he talks about why he runs away from home - his father drinks and beats him. Street children in the children's room of the police or in the children's reception center tell their stories, girls sing ditties (sync.). Children look at the street from behind a barred window. AND ARE ALL POETS! Color frames: Children draw with paints on the wall in the room, answering the question: why do we need a dad? The girl plays the violin. People walk along the city street, there are schoolchildren. A woman in a meadow picks up a girl. A girl is standing in a clearing with a wreath of daisies on her head.

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V. Kachurin, V. Karev