The Trial Is Coming

The film tells about the trial of the machine operator of one of the collective farms of the Kuibyshev region - the tractor driver Viktor Nikolayevich Borodin: in the spring of 1986, driving a tractor while intoxicated, he had an accident, which resulted in the death of a man - the collective farm foreman Vladimir Ermishin. Photos of car accidents involving trucks, cars and urban transport. The operational duty officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the dispatching console. A woman - a witness to the accident committed by V.N. Borodin gives evidence to the investigator (sinhr.). VN Borodin answers the questions of the police major, repents of his deed (sinhr.). Collective farm workers express their opinion about V.N. Borodin: they say that they did not see him drunk driving a tractor General view of a meadow in one of the settlements where the court session is to take place: rows of chairs for the public, tables in the presidium are arranged. Collective farm workers at an open court hearing. Rural landscape: river, forest, fields, country road. Horses graze in the meadow. View of a rural cemetery. V. Yermishin's widow and son at the grave. The widow of the deceased V. Yermishin says that she has a minor son, so she would not want V. Borodin to be imprisoned, this will not return her husband, but being at large, V. Borodin will be obliged to pay her son 25% of the salary. V. Borodin and his wife are sitting on a log by the fence, next to their small children. General view of V.N.Borodin's labor awards: orders of Glory, badges of the Winner of the Socialist Competition, drummer of the 10th five-year plan. A male driver in a drug addiction clinic, a doctor checks his reflexes. A traffic police car at the scene of a car accident. The police officer describe the place of the accident, take measurements. A crowd of people on the side of the road where a woman lies, who was killed by a truck. Women express their negative opinion regarding drinking drivers who become the culprit in the death of people as a result of accidents and collisions (sync.). One of the drivers says that while drunk, no one has the right to go out on the line (sync.).

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screenwriter A. Solonitsyn, sound engineer V. Popov, editor B. Kozhin