They Were Applauded by Moscow

The film tells about an amateur propaganda team from the village. Diveevo, Gorky (modern. Nizhny Novgorod) region. Part 1 G. Moscow. In the Column Hall of the House of Unions, an agitation and artistic brigade from the village of Diveyevo. Gorky Region. Streets of the village of Diveevo. In the former Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky nunnery, there are the crumbling Trinity and Transfiguration Cathedrals, a bell tower without a dome and a cross. The stone buildings of the monastery house a pedagogical school, a boarding school with a monument to Lenin and the House of Culture. A rehearsal of the members of the agitation and artistic brigade is taking place in the House of Culture. The orchestra plays a musical miniature composed by [clarinetist] Vasily Puzyrevsky. Stepan Stepanovich Korobov, director of the House of Culture, rehearsing a dance with Tamara Ruzanova. Soloists Viktor and Antonina Filimonovs sing a song with the chorus. [The leader of the propaganda team] asks the guys to be more fun. All members of the propaganda team work during the day at various enterprises. V. Filimonov is the head of the information department in the Diveyevo regional newspaper; Vadim Protopopov, the writer of satirical couplets, also works there as a journalist. Fyodor Korobov, mechanic of refrigeration units at the Diveyevsky creamery, a regular participant in agitation teams' interludes. Female singing trio composed of pharmacist N.N. Zherebkova, nurses M.M. Kulagina and pediatrician A.N. Nikishkina is the best in the Diveevsky district. Instructor of the Diveyevo District Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a member of the propaganda team V. Yukhinets in the field camp sings (sinhr.) The song "Buchenwald Alarm". Participants of the propaganda team nail the newspaper Diveevskie Shpilki to the wall. In the picture, a man is drinking vodka. Gathered collective farmers recognize the drawn tractor driver Pukhov. On an improvised stage, the propaganda brigade presents a scene (sync. And behind the scenes) about alcoholics. At the celebration of the delivery of the harvest to the state, the best milkmaid of the Diveevsky district, deputy of the Gorky Regional Council of Workers A.M. Tsyganova and the best pig-breeder, Vera Ivanovna Gainova, are watching the performance of the propaganda team at the grain current. The presenter from the stage in verse congratulates them on their labor success. Spectators sit and lie on sacks of grain. After the end of the concert, a column of trucks with grain leaves the current. Part 2 In the summer, the participants of the propaganda team have a lot of work to do. In the back of a truck, they tour the area with concerts. On the stage of the rural House of Culture, the Diveyevo people are playing (sync. And behind the scenes) a scene about the careless director of the House of Culture. In one of the collective farms, machine operators are dismantling a new tractor for parts. The propaganda brigade immediately reacts to the incident. At the field camp, they perform (sync. And off-screen) the satirical miniature "The Razed Tractor". Secretary of the Diveyevo District Committee of the CPSU N. Ya. Averin is discussing a new program with members of the propaganda team. In the office, on the table, there are satirical drawings for the scene "The Wretched Tractor". Moscow. Members of the Diveyevo propaganda team ride a bus along Leninsky Prospekt, walk along Red Square, along the pedestrian crossing to the Kremlin Spasskaya Tower with chimes. They walk along the park near the building of the Bolshoi Theater, on the Lenin Hills they look at the main building of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, from the observation deck overlooking the Moscow River sports complex "Luzhniki". In the Column Hall of the House of Unions, the All-Russian review of rural amateur performances is being held. Agitation teams from the city of Astrakhan and from the village are performing on the stage. Diveevo, which became laureates of the All-Russian review. The audience is applauding.

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scriptwriter A. Sazhin, ass. operator A. Zinoviev, ass. director S. Kuzmin, editor A. Stepanov, sound engineer I. Nifonova, consultant A. Luther, text read by L. Demyanenko