The Distance

The Distance , 1975 (22:50)

Annotation: The film is about the history of development of sports in Soviet country.

Film description: The film tells about the development of sport in the USSR. Sports cyclists, runners, skiers, motorcyclists, sambo. Training boxers, cyclists, rowers, swimmers, skaters. Speeches gymnasts O. Korbut and L. Tourischeva, skaters L. Pahovomoy and A. Gorshkov, weightlifter V. Alexeev. Sportswoman N. Chizhov while throwing the nucleus. Moments hockey match between Soviet and Canadian teams. Training athletes in the gym under the supervision of specialists. Training young gymnasts and fencers. Chronicle 1920-1940-s' years: training fencers and track and field athletes, performances skaters; athlete F. Miller throws a disc during the first Games of the peoples of the USSR in 1928; gym parade.

Source description 1: The newsreel of 20th years reflecting first steps in history of the Soviet sports:
Parade of athletes.
Performance of fencers.
Athlete throw a disk, a spear; ball game; jumps through a sports tool ("horse"); raising of a weight; swimming - women's warm-up and heat.
Competitions of athletes - run participators of relay race; runners on a distance; hurdle race; broad jumps.
Competition of bicyclists.
A panorama of waterfall on struggling sportsmen.
A panorama of motorcycle football.
A general panorama of motorcycle races - sportsmen on a distance.
The moments of playing football.
A new methods of trainings of the sportsmen, allowing to discover physical opportunities of the person.
Training of boxers, fighters under supervision of doctors.
Exercises on gym apparatus of boxers, bicyclists, oarsmen and exercises of sportsmen on special simulators.
Equipment.

Source description 2: Performance of the Soviet gymnasts on the international scene - G. Shugurova carries out an exercise with a hoop; O.Korbut's performance on a parallel bars and a log.
Performance of gymnast on the rings and on a sports tool (horse).
A panorama of freestyle exercises carrying out by L.Turishcheva.
A panorama of performance of figure skaters L.Pahomova and A.Gorshkov and other pairs.
A panorama of javelin throwing and a disk by sportsmen.
A panorama of high jumps.
A panorama of discus throwing by F.Melnik.
Rewarding the winners (hall) .
A panorama of the sportsman who jumps from a diving board and after the jump in water.
Girls occupations under direction of the trainer figured swimming .
Young sportsmen in a park - various trainings, jumps on a trampoline.
A panorama of horsemen.
Occupations of fencers under supervision of the trainer.
A panorama of marine surf.
A panorama of the seagull above the sea.
The rock-climber.
A panorama of the yachts (sports) in the sea.
Hockey match - the moments of game.
A panorama of spectators on tribunes.

Source description 3: A panorama of the moments of hockey's game.
A panorama of reacting spectators on a tribune.
Vasilij Alekseev lifts a weight.
Legs of weightlifter.
A panorama of one-year-old Artur Parshin (he swims from seven-day age) in pool with the parents.
A panorama of oarsmen's competition on single kayaks.
A panorama of skaters training on a skating-rink.
A panorama of the sea - swimmers train.
Children's illustrations on sports subjects.

Directors: Morgachev I.

Operators: Morgachev I.

Script writers: Orlov G.