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Where Was the Garden

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Abstract
Part I. A panorama of the icon "Nicholas the Disgusting" - the most revered saint by the inhabitants of Vetka in Belarus. One of the streets of Vetka in the fall. The curator of the Museum of Folk Art Galina Nechaeva is taking the child in a stroller. Dosimetrists take measurements on the street. The interiors of the Museum of Folk Art. Panorama of old books, icons. Museum curator Svetlana Leontyeva tells the story of the icon-painting icon of Vetka (synchronously). G. Nechaeva talks about the Vetka residents, about the Vetka school of icon painting. A panorama of the faces of children on the street. View of the river in summer, Panorama along the banks. Meadow flower. Wooden houses on the banks of the river (filmed from the top point). Ancient monuments in the cemetery. Panorama on the icon "Annunciation" - the work of the Vetkovian icon painter E. M. Andrianov, made in 1880. Panorama on the icon "Cathedral of the Archangel Michael". The museum curator talks about the icons (behind the scenes). Hall of Old Russian Art: icons on the walls. The icon "Seeking the Dead Souls" on the wall. Part II. Panorama by icons. Icons: "The Mother of God Fedorovskaya", "Descent from the Cross and Placement in the Tomb", "Sign", "John the Theologian". The supplier of the rural Old Believer church talks about the theft of ancient icons in the church (synchronously). Rural stadium. Wooden houses along a rural road (filmed from a passing car). A woman collects water from a well into a bucket. House of I.S.Tarasenko, who donated old books to the museum. The curator of the S. Leontyev Museum at the house talks about the robbery of I. Tarasenko, about the high level of radiation in the village (synchronously). Panorama of wooden houses with boarded up windows. Teenagers from the village of Bordovka, which suffered from radiation, brought an icon to the museum. Part III. A panorama of the children's faces. The dosimetrist talks about the results of the survey of the Gomel region, about the increase in the background radiation (synchronously). Panorama of ancient books. The dosimeter lies in a wheelchair next to the child of the museum curator G. Nechaeva. A museum employee speaks of a tragic choice - to leave the infected city or stay with the museum. A panorama of the faces of young people - residents of Vetka.
Director
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Color
Color
Film ID
32657
Keywords
christianity
, museums
, natural disasters
, population
, landscapes
, ecological disasters
, peoples life
, cities
, monumentshistoryculture
, painting
Meterage
703,9
Number of Parts
3
Release Date
1991
Sound