A Difficult Field

A Difficult Field , 1981 (59:31)

Annotation: The film is about renewal of the agriculture in the USSR after the Great Patriotic War (Soviet people’s participation in World War II in 1941-1945).

History: The film centers on the fate of two farmers - KP Orlovsky - Chairman of the Belarusian collective farm "Dawn" and Posmitnogo M. - Chairman of Ukrainian collective farms. They remember the participants of the struggle for harvest in the difficult 1946, 1947, 1948 years: the farmer Semenov, O., B. Tabatabulova - the participant of transhumance from Kazakhstan to the war-torn areas, kolhoznitsa Dreval T., Kirilenko AP - who was then first secretary of the Regional Committee of Nicholas Communist Party and others.

Film description: A film about the rehabilitation of agriculture, which was destroyed during World War II, mounted a postwar newsreel archive to read: destroyed villages and hamlets, a broken military equipment in the fields, refugees on the roads, the return of soldiers from the front of the village and holiday feasts, the widow's coffin with the body of a dead soldier, the construction of residential houses, home-made production of bricks on rural construction, urban construction workers arriving in the village, the villagers moved out of mud huts in the new house, break up, farmers are clearing the field of missiles and military equipment; peasants work the land, sowing and harvesting crops , chairman of the Belarusian collective farm "Dawn" KP Orlovsky appears at a meeting of farmers, inspects the collective farm wagons and carts; carts with gifts for the Ukrainian peasants from the inhabitants of Georgian villages on the road, ferrying cattle from Kazakhstan to the villages affected by the war; cattle wagons in a freight train; head dairy farm "12th October" PA Malinin of the work; reclamation work, a dried-up river bed, dry fields of corn and buckwheat during the drought in Moldova; discussion Ruling of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) 1947 "On measures the progress of agriculture in the postwar period" on the board Kol'tsov Order of Lenin collective farm named after Stalin (synchronous) ; farmers are working on snow retention, production processes of manufacturing and repairing agricultural machinery on the shop floors and workshops, farm chairman Budennyi Odessa area MA Posmitna speaks at a production meeting, PN Angelina at work on the combine and the children that collect spikelets in the field, hay, threshing grain in the current; performance dance company at the current, the farmers in the club watching newsreel story dedicated to the heroes collective labor Brezhnev gives awards to the collective farmers at the field camp and the agricultural show, honoring the Heroes of Socialist Labor, and other . The film includes filming of modern settlement of collective farm "Daybreak", monuments chairmen of collective farms MO Posmitna and KP Orlovsky, and grooms the memories of the former collective farm "Daybreak" O. Semenova (synchronous), participating transhumance from Kazakhstan to the affected войне деревни Б. Табатабуловой (синхронно), председателя колхоза Л. А. Иванищенко (синхронно), колхозниц Т. И. Древаль и Н. Яковлевой (синхронно), бывшего первого секретаря Николаевского обкома партии А. П. Кириленко, бывшего директора одного из plants, and now chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR NA Tikhonov (synchronously).

Source description 1: Ice drift; high water.
Plowed fields , tractors in the field.
Newsreel of 1945-1950.
Beaten military equipment in the filed.
Refugees and soldiers are returning to their villages.
Peasants’ everyday life, a festival.
Shambles.
Widows’ faces.
The link man of the film actor E.Matveev next to the monument ““Vintovka i Plug” [“Rifle and plough”] to the Hero of the Soviet Union, the president of a collective farm K.P.Orlovsky is speaking.
A picture of К. Orlovsky.
The post-war Moscow .
The destroyed village.
Homeless fire victims’ life.
К.P. Orlovsky is holding a meeting in the field.
Field clearing, plowing in the Byelorussian collective farm “Rassvet”.

Source description 2: Newsreel of 1945-1950.
Work at forges.
Village’s everyday life.
The groom O.Semenov is putting a horse to the plow, plowing.
К. Orlovsky is teaching О. Semenov to plow.
The old men are teaching boys to plow.
О. Semenov is speaking about work in the collective farm.
Construction works in the village.
An independent brick manufacturing.
Townspeople are helping to construct buildings in the village.
Moving from dugouts to the new houses.
Newsreel of 1941-1945
Fights to liberate the village; the village is meeting the guerilla warriors.
Collecting gifts for the Ukraine in the Georgian village Shroma; gift trains are going.
Construction materials and equipment for war-scarred regions are being loaded.

Source description 3: Newsreel:
Cattle is being driven from Siberia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to war-scarred regions.
The sheepman B. Tabatabulova is speaking about the driving.
The herds are being met in the Ukraine.
The cattle is meeting with a train.
The cattle-raiser Praskovya Malinina is talking with a delegation, showing animals.
Newstreel:
Preparation to sowing in the spring of 1946; reclamation works.
Sowing.
Drought; dried fields and steppes; spike gathering.

Source description 4: A snow-covered village.
An issue of the newspaper “Pravda” [“The Truth”] of 1947 reporting on a plenary session of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks [Lenin fraction]).
A meeting in the village of Koltsovka.
Snow retention works.
Ploughed fields.
Spring works.
The president of an Ukrainian collective farm L.A.Ivanishenko (in the field) and T.I.Dreval) is speaking about the spring of 1947.
Plowing, sowing.
Village people’s everyday life.
Peasant children’s pictures.
Grain threshing.
Women are covering furrows with hey.
Rain in the village.
Tractors are plowing.
A picture of the first secretary of the Nikolayev regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union A.P.Kirilenko.
The secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is speaking about 1947.
E.Matveev is listening.

Source description 5: Agricultural equipment assembling.
A train loaded with tractors is getting off.
The president of an Ukrainian collective farm Makar Posmitny at a meeting, in his cabinet, in the field camp, inspecting planning, congratulating collective farmers.
Pictures of M.O.Posmitny.
Women working in the field, 16-year-old Nina Yakovleva is working.
The Hero of Socialist Labor N.Yakovleva is speaking about work in the collective farm.
M.Posmitny and other collective farmers are examining wheat.
Harvesting by combines.
Working at grass-moving-machines.
Shockworker P.Angelina is working at a combine in the collective farm “Staro-Beshevo”.
A strong wind and rain in the field, wheat beaten down with the rain.
Collective farmers are reaping the beaten wheat with sickles, mowing it up in water.
Moscow, Gorky Street.
People in the street.
Customers in shops.
Dancing in the village.
Townspeople at reaping.
Actors are working at the thrashing-floor.
The ensemble performs lezginka at the thrashing-floor.
Night work at the thrashing-floor.

Source description 6: A picture of L.I. Brezhnev, N.А. Tikhonov.
N.А. Tikhonov is speaking.
Harvesting, delivery of crop to the state.
A film recordist is taking picture of collective farmers.
Collective farmers are watching a documentary in a club.
Leonid. Brezhnev is rewarding Moldavian collective farmers in a field camp, at an exhibition.
Awarding of the 24-year-old president of a collective farm Maria Pustik.
The honoring of K.P.Orlovsky and Hero of Socialist Labor M.Posmitny.
N.Yakovleva is preparing for the celebration.
N.Yakovleva at the celebration.
A picture of M.Posmitny and his wife Pelageya (cartoon).
Sunflower and beet fields.
Harvesting, villages (the picture is taken from a helicopter).
The contemporary village.
A hotel in the collective farm “Rassvet”.
Monuments to M.Posmitny, K.Orlovsky.
Graduates are putting flowers to the monument to Orlovsky.
The monument “Vintovka i Plug” [“Rifle and plough”].
A night landscape.
A radio center of the collective farm named after Stalin, an announcer is speaking.
Collective farmers are driving and walking to work.
Trains with tractors and harvester machines are passing by.
E.Matveev is speaking.

Directors: Grigorev I., Gutman I., Pumpyanskaya S., Semenov T.

Operators: Dobronickiy V., Orlov U.

Script writers: Aleksandrov A., Borovik G., Ignatenko A., Slavin K.

Composers: Kazenin V.

Announcer: Matveev E.