An Appointment.

An Appointment. , 1979 (45:36)

Annotation: The film is about the cultivation in young people intolerance to injustice, evil and indifference. It tells about a secondary school class, follows these kids’ further lives and their different destinies.

Film description: 1 hour - Students write an essay, describe your psychological portrait. 2 hour life cycle - these students in ten years: the worker works at the machine. 3-4 hours - Former students are working in the printing, design office, serve in the army. 4-5 hours - Former students visit the prison of his classmate, convicted of murder. Meeting room visits.

Source description 1: Newsreel of 1967:
Fragment of the film “Tolko tree uroka” [“Only three lessons”] (Filn studio “Lennauchfilm” [“Leningrad Scientific Film”]): the pupils of the seventh grade of School # 59 are writing a composition on the subject “My Portrait”.

Gena Masterov, Zhenya Bobyshev, Lena Ryzhey, Kolya Subbotin and Igor Matveev are reading their compositions, the teacher is conducting the lesson; pupils are listening and responding.
A picture of the 7”A” grade with theirteacher.
Panorama of the former 7”A” grade in front of their class picture.
The teacher is entering the classroom, children are standing up.
The teacher is talking to her former pupils, they are writing a composition.

The employee of the Research Institute Kolya Subbotin, the trade worker Vera Tolkacheva, the taxi driver Zhenya Bobyshev.
The fixer Gena Masterov and the copy editor Katya Guseva are reading their compositions.

Source description 2: Zhenya Bobyshev is reading his composition.
Katya Guseva and other pupils are listening to him.
The teacher is looking through the window; the park.
A teacher and pupils are discussing the destiny of Igor Matveev convicted to nine years for a murder.
A watch-tower.
The sentry is walking by.
A searchlight ray in the cinema hall.
Prisoners are watching a film; there is Igor Matveev among them.
Newsreel of 1967:
Fragment of the film “Only three lessons”: Igor is declaring Shevchenko poem.

A seagull on the logs by the water, it is flying up, seagulls are flying.
A motor-launch quay, a boat at the wharf.
The teacher, Zhenya Bobyshev and others on the quay.
The shop of the Machine-Building Plant.
Gena Masterov is working at the machine tool, making an observation, talking to other workers.
Gena’s grandmother is rewinding wool at home.
Gena and his wife Luda in the park: he is riding a cart; she is shooting at the shooting gallery.
At home Gena Masterov’s grandmother is speaking of her grandson; Gena and Luda.
In the courtyard Gena and his grandmother are talking to a woman about an apartment exchange.

Source description 3: Gena Masterov and his grandmother at home.
A flying seagull.
Panorama of Eugeny Bobyshev, Gennady Masterov and their teacher in the quay.
The boat is arriving, the passengers are going downstairs, the other passengers are going aboard, in a boat.
Newsreel of 1967:
Katya Guseva from the 7 “A” grade.
The copyreader of the pioneer newspaper “Leninskie iskry” [“Lenin’s Sparks”] Katya Guseva is talking to children in the Pioneer Camp; she is present at the rehearsal of the children choir.
The accordionist is playing; the pioneer leader and the children choir (1-2 classes) are singing the song “Pesnya Pervoklassnika” [“First-Grader’s Song”].
Katya Guseva is walking along an editorial office passage, talking with the woman-editor about an article; she is reading an article proof in the printing office and talking to the typesetters.
The hands are taking a reprint from the printing-press and sorting proof.
Working typesetters at the publishing house “Lenizdat” [“Leningrad Press”].
A ship, boats and a motor boat are sailing by.
Newsreel of 1967:
Zhenya Bobyshev from the 7 “A” grade.
A taxi driver Zhenya Bobyshev is helping passengers to load their luggage, sitting at the wheel, at the wheel.
Eugeny Bobyshev under the windows of the maternity hospital, his wife is looking down through the window.
Zhenya and his wife carrying out their baby.
At home Zhenya is ironing napkins, his wife is passing him the napkins.
Eugeny Bobyshev is being admitted into the Komsomol (Young CommunistLeague) young people group of Taxi Fleet #3
A car is entering the heading.
Passengers in taxi.
The members of the working group are discussing Eugeny Bobyshev’s misconduct.
The column head is speaking about Eugeny Bobyshev.
Pentropavlovskaya Fortress [Peter and Paul Fortress].
The door with the inscription: “The Night Department Dean’s Office” is being closed.
Zhenya Bobyshev is talking to the Department Dean of the Leningrad Economic and Technical Institute (LETI); Zhenya is writing an application.

Source description 4: Newsreel of 1967:
Sereja Suhiashvili from the 7 “A” class.
The military engineer Serezha Sukhiashvili .
Tanks are riding on the road through the water obstacle.
Sergey Sukhiashvili is talking to the soldiers in the hardstand; soldiers are marching and singing.
Sergey Sukhiashvili and soldiers in the forest next to the car, with officers in the bus.
A flying seagull.
Water, a floating boat.
Eugenie Bobyshev and Gennady Masterov on the deck of the boat.
A towboat.
Newsreel of 1967:
Olya Usupova from the 7 “A” grade.
The civil engineer Olya Usupova is going by tram, sitting at her working table at the design office of the Design Institute, at work at the adjustable drawing table, they are collecting the drawings.
A draughtswoman and other workers of the design office at work.
Olya is talking to the head of the office, speaking by the phone.
Olya Usupova at the industrial facility construction, speaking to the builders.
Olya in the café “Lucomorye” with her friend, dancing with a lad.
Dancing people in the café.
A quay.
The teacher, Katya Guseva and Gena Masterov on board the boat.
Towboats are landing.
Watch-towers.
The teacher and the former pupils of the 7 “A” grade who have come to see Igor Matveev are passing the check-point, handing in the passports, entering the appointment room, taking seats and telephone receivers.
Igor Matveev is entering the appointment room, taking a seat behind the glass wall and the telephone receiver.

Source description 5: The teacher, Gena Masterov, Katya Guseva, Zhenya Bobyshev, Olya Usupova, Lena Ryjei are talking with Igor Matveev on the phone.
A flying seagull.
A boat is sailing away.
The former pupils are among the passengers.
Panorama of the motor boat floating by.
The river bank.
Panorama of the barge sailing by.
Newsreel of 1967:
Fragment of the film “Only three lessons” – a teacher and children at the classroom.
A picture: the teacher and the 7 “A” grade; former pupils and their teacher in 10 years.

Directors: Mostovoy P.

Operators: Goncharov A.

Script writers: Agranovskiy V., Mostovoy P.

Text writers: Nikolaev L.