Unprincipled Gang of Killers

The film tells about the Soviet state and society in the 1920s-1930s. In part I, the following filming was used: Newsreels, Russia, late 1920s-early 1930s. (b / w): a view of a falling sawn tree in a winter forest (rapid). The workers are rolling the logs. Rykova (Perly) Natalya Alekseevna, the daughter of a Soviet statesman who was shot in 1938, at home talks about her dreams, about eighteen years of imprisonment on charges "for non-reporting and anti-Soviet agitation" (sinhr.). Type of furnishings of a room in a one-room apartment: bookcase, round table, TV, portraits of parents. Newsreels, Moscow, 1925-1930 (b / w): people perform gymnastic exercises in the square. View of the sheet with the NDP: “Speech of the State Prosecutor of the USSR Prosecutor Comrade AND I. Vyshinsky. 1938 "(different plans). Newsreel footage, Moscow, 20-30s. (b / w): Cathedral of Christ the Savior on the left bank of the Moskva River. View of the monument to the Russian naturalist Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev, opened in 1923 on Tverskoy Boulevard. Newsreel footage, Moscow, 1921 (b / w): Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Alexei Ivanovich Rykov gets out of the car, enters the building of the Bolshoi Theater to participate in the III Congress of the Comintern. CM. Budyonny, K.E. Voroshilov, Ya.B. Gamarnik, V.K. Blucher chatting at the entrance to the theater. Gamarnik gives Budyonny a light. Photojournalists are working at Teatralnaya Square. Party leaders pose for a group photo. Newsreels, Moscow, 1923 (b / w): XII Congress of the RCP (b). Congress delegates in the dining room. A.I. Rykov is reading a newspaper at the table. LB are leaving the office. Kamenev and M.V. Frunze. Type of photographic portraits of N.I. Ezhova and L.D. Trotsky. Photo by V.I. Lenin and an article in a newspaper with the NDP: "FAREWELL". Newsreel footage, Moscow, 1918-1922 (b / w): speech by L.D. Trotsky in front of the Red Army (different plans). View of a poster in the hands of a Red Army soldier with the NDP: "Long live the fraternal unity of the revolutionary workers of all countries." A fragment of one of the battles of the Civil War. Trotsky presents valuable gifts to the soldiers of the Nikolaev division. Among those present: the head of the Red Army division V.I. Chapaev, poet, member of the RSDLP (b) Demyan Bedny. A resident of Kuibyshev, a former Red Army soldier Pyotr Alekseevich Osipov, in a hospital ward, talks about a difficult fate, about service in the Chapaevsk division (sinhr., Behind the scenes). In the second part, the following filming was used: A fragment from Vyshinsky's accusatory speech, denouncing the Chairman of the Soviet People's Commissariat A.I. Rykov and I Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR A.S. Yenukidze in preparation for the assassination of Kirov. Newsreel footage, Moscow, 1920-1923 (b / w): meeting of the Soviet government. Foreground (left to right): A.I. Rykov, I.V. Stalin, N.I. Bukharin. Background: G.K. Ordzhonikidze, A.I. Mikoyan, K.E. Voroshilov, L.M. Koganovich. Newsreels, Russia, 1918-1922 (b / w): view of a broken train and a destroyed bridge. People queuing for many kilometers to one of the retail outlets. A teenager sits near a dead horse that has fallen from hunger. The peasants plow the land on emaciated horses. Newsreel footage, Astrakhan region, 1918-1922 (b / w): People's Commissar for Military Affairs L.D. Trotsky communicates with peasants. The camel train is passing by. View of passing cars with the Red Army. Newsreels, Moscow, 1927 (b / w): the last speech of L.D. Trotsky at the Plenum in the Kremlin. Natalya Alekseevna Rykova at home talks about the arrest of her mother, about her request to tell the party the truth about her husband in 25-30 years (sinhr., Behind the scenes). In the third part, the following filming was used: Type of articles in the newspaper Pravda dated March 2, 1938 under the headings: "Trotskyist-Bukharin bandits have no mercy!", "Destroy the Bukharin-Rykov gang!" Newsreel footage, Moscow, 1930s (b / w): a view of passing cars, tram number 15, trolleybus along one of the city streets in the evening. Building "TORGSIN". I.V. Stalin, K.E. Voroshilov communicate, smoke on the street. V.M. Molotov, K.E. Voroshilov, L.M. Koganovich, S.M. Kirov, N.S. Khrushchev, S.M. Budyonny in the conference room. Newsreels, Russia, 1918-1922 (b / w): L.D. speaks to the Red Army (different plans). Fragment of the battle of the Civil War. View of photographs of massacres of civilians (different plans). Newsreels, the city of Dnepropetrovsk, 1927 (b / w): the first stage of the builders of the DneproGES is working. Newsreels, Moscow, 1934 (b / w): the military enter the cinema. Type of posters for films "Three Songs", "Youth of Maxim". Portrait of the actor B.P. Chirkov. The doctor measures the blood pressure of the veteran of the Civil War P.A. Osipov.

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Scriptwriter Y. Filippov, editor B. Kozhin, sound engineer V. Shubin, announcer V. Gushchin