The Birth of a Song

A film about Kyrgyzstan, about the Kyrgyz family of the Abakirovs. Kyrgyzstan. Landscapes of mountains, valleys. Lake Sary-Chelek. Tract "Arslanbob". Walnut trees. Waterfall. Naryn river. Bridge over river. Road construction in the mountains. Valley of Kochkor-Ata. Cotton fields. Cotton harvesting by machines. Valley of Susamyr. Landscapes. Poppy field. Blizzard in the mountains. Spring drops. Driving sheep to summer pastures. Shepherds, including a woman, drive the flock across the river, rocks, in the snow. A projectionist of one of the collective farms shows newsreels. Chronicle footage: Sukamyr valley, tractor driver S. Saltabaev, shepherd S. Kenjibaev at work. Wheat harvesting, livestock breeders' holiday, game "Kyz-Kuumay" - "Catch the girl", Rosa and Keneshbek are galloping. Chronicle characters among the audience. Tunnel construction in the mountains. Village Toktogul. Monument to Akyn Toktogul Santylganov. Tomb of Toktogul. Hunter-berkutchi on the hunt with a student boy. Golden eagle in the air, in a fight with a wolf. Production processes for melting mercury, antimony at industrial enterprises. Expedition of geologists. Oil fields. Oil pipelines. Osh city. Demolition of old and construction of new houses. Streets of the old and new city. Issyk-Kul lake. Landscapes of the lake. Expedition of archaeologists of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences. Scuba divers are examining the bottom of the lake. Excavations on the shore. Items found in the excavation. Steamship movement on the lake. Pier on the lake. The city of Przhevalsk. Medical school student S. Abakirova in practice in a maternity hospital. Secretary of the city communist committee of the CPSU B. Abakirova at home with children. The town of Rybachye. Loading the barge at the pier. The city of Frunze. Streets, buildings. University. A student of the Faculty of Philology A. Abakirova reads Juliet's monologue in English (synchronously) at the exam. Editor of the newspaper "Leninchil Jali" A. Abakirova at work. Industrial processes at the Fizpribor plant. Kyrgyz branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Scientists at work. Academician I.K. Akhunbaev at the operation. Theatre. Cafe. School of Music. The Abakirov family is drinking tea in the garden (collective farm "Path to Communism"). The daughter of the Abakirovs - P. Abakirova in the city of Leningrad, works in one of the ateliers, studies in the reading room of the library. The son of the Abakirovs - A. Abakirov with his wife G. Ivanova is walking along Mira Avenue in Moscow. Druzhba multinational collective farm. Collective farmers at work. Fields of corn, wheat, medicinal poppy. Dzhety-Oguz resort on the Issyk-Kul lake.

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5

script by S. Nagorny, music by T. Ermatov