The Hardest Barrier

Newsreel: the discovery of an oil field, a fountain of oil gushing into the sky. Camp of geologists; geologists are drinking tea by the tent, listening to the radio. Workers are working at the drilling rig. Meeting at the opening of the monument to the Conquerors of Samotlor. Congratulations to drillers - winners of the socialist competition, presentation of letters, a brass band plays. VN Mironov, General Director of the Nizhnevartovskneftegaz Association, is holding a meeting. The accident at the rig. A gusher of oil gushes from the destroyed oil rig. Court session on the case of breaking the oil pipeline and compensation for the damage caused. The prosecutor, lawyers, defendants, the audience in the courtroom. The bulldozer worker brought to trial after the trial names the real culprits of the accident and the reason for hiding them. Drilling foreman V. Kazakov speaks (synchronously) of high performance in the work of his team, keeping silent about the accident and postscripts. Employees of the district technical inspection point to the cause of all accidents: violations of technological processes during the construction of wells, oil pipelines; pursuit of high performance at the expense of quality. The film exposes bureaucracy, formalism, old methods in the work of production managers during the period of perestroika in the USSR. The city of Nizhnevartovsk: passers-by, traffic on the streets, the Mir cinema, construction of a residential building. The police are checking documents at the station, examining the attics of houses. Detainees. Youth cafe. Boys and girls are dancing, sitting at tables.

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Sound E. Manukyan, S. Sinyak, music by A. Korolev, screenplay by E. Dubrovsky