A Patch.

A Patch. , 1987 (59:57)

Annotation: About the destiny of people who left villages in the 60-70-s and tried to accommodate to the life in large cities. Every weekend these people gather together at "a patch" - a big meadow in the Izmaylovo Park.

Film description: A walk on a Sunday on a large meadow Izmailovo Park (the "patch"), natives of Tambov, Lipetsk, Ryazan, Kaluga, Vladimir villages, who came to Moscow in 1930, in the late 1940's, in 1950, 1970's of recruitment (the organized recruitment of labor) to work on construction sites, industrial enterprises in Moscow. The assembled members mall dance, sing folk songs. Men play the accordion, harmonica. Interviews (synchronously) PI Kazharinoy, SA Kovbasiuk, IP Gomozenkova, VI Isaeva, A. Soboleva, P. Isakov, V. and N. Alishinyh, telling about the causes of mass emigration young people from villages, harsh working conditions, housing problems of people who came to Moscow. Newsreel. Women collective farmers harvesting wheat with sickles. Farmers voroshat hay, put it in the stacks. Pantry farm. Issuance of products on workdays (50 г. grain of 1 workday). The police are in the barn, pick up supplies of grain from the kulaks, loaded with sacks of grain on the cart. In the village passing a tractor with the grain delivered to the State farmers. Area Yaroslavl Station. A man with his belongings out of the Moscow railway station. Building a house on Gorky Street in Moscow, high-rise building of hotel "Ukraine". The rise of containers with a brick. Writer FV Gladkov, filmmaker GA Alexandrov, working in the new Shabalin for an apartment. Images from the feature film "Shining Path".

Source description 1: A fragment from a feature film called “Svetliy put’ [Light way]” (producer – B.Alexandrov). The Ancient Moscow.
A street of the modern Moscow, a bus stop, a bus approaches.
A man’s feet walking around the park.
Vasily Vasilevich, carrying an accordion on his buggy, is going through the park; he is coming to people who gathered on the field.
Old people who gathered on Bolshaya Polyana (Large Field) of the Izmailovsky park are dancing, singing couplets.
Smiling faces.
Men and women of middle age are going through the park.
Vasily Vasilievich is playing the accordion.
People are looking at the dancing persons.
A picture of P.I.Kazharina, who came in Moscow in 1933.
P.I.Kazharina is at home and is speaking about life at village of the 20s.
Newsreel:
Outdoor festivities in the village, merry-go-rounds.
Children at merry-go-round.
A girl is watching dancing people.
S.A.Kovbasyuk, who came to Moscow from Ukraine in 1932, is watching.

Title “Sovkino – a magazine for village”.
Newsreel of the 30s.:
Militiamen are entering a pig house, taking away corn hidden there by a kulak; sacks with corn are being loaded in a cart.
Joint delivery of corn in the Cossack village: sacks with corn are being brought through the village.
A picture of S.A.Kovbasyuk.
S.A.Kovbasyuk at home, telling about the agricultural tax in kind and life in the country in the 30s.

Source description 2: Newsreel of the 30s:
Rails.
The shadow of wagons.
A train is passing by, a man is standing on the step.
A man with things is leaving a Moscow station.
A near-railway station site.
Tram No.8 is passing by.
A boy is going on a tram buffer.
Moscow streets, cab drivers are passing by, passers-by.
Buildings in the constructionist style.
Moscow.
Workers are breaking down an old building.

S.A.Kovbasyuk is speaking about the starvation which took place in villages in the 30s.
Newsreel of the 30s:
Women working in the field are bringing home hay.
A man is talking to kolkhozniks (collective farm workers).
Women are applauding.
Youngsters and children on bicycles.
Festivities in the village: accordionist is playing, people feel off, are dancing.
An old man at the table.
Women are carrying plates.

P.I.Kazharina is speaking about her arrival in Moscow.
P.I.Kazharina is signing couplets at the “bandbox” in the Izmailovsky park.
Another woman is singing.
A panorama of dancing women.
People are watching.
A picture of I.P.Gomozenkov, who arrived in Moscow in1937.
I.P.Gomozenkov (wearing a railway employee’s uniform) at home, and is telling about himself.

Source description 3: A panorama of I.P.Gomozenkov continuing his story about peasants’ life in the 30-ies.
Newsreel of the 30-ies:
Women are carried corn afield.
A man is giving earned foodstuffs to kolkhozniks (collective farm workers).
A hand is writing down in a notebook.
Sugar on weigh scales.
Collective farm workers are bringing home hay.

A picture of V.I.Isayeva, who arrived in Moscow in 1950.
A photo of arcadian young people; V.Isayeva with her mother.
A picture of A.S.Soboleva who arrived in Moscow in 1946; a panorama of her photo with her husband, children.
Newsreel of the 40-50-ies:
A truck with young people in it is going through the village.
Boys and girls in the truck, they are singing.
There are tractors, a tractor driver is waiving with his hand.
An accordionist is playing.
An eared field.

V.I.Isayeva is in her flat speaking about her departure from her village to Moscow.
A.S.Soboleva is telling about her arrival in Moscow.
I.P.Gomozenkov is at home; a panorama of him talking about his arrival in Moscow.
Newsreel of the 40-ies:
Moscow. Traffic.
People in the street.
A street.
Reflection of a house in a car mirror.
Moscow streets.
Sportsmen are going along Gorky street.
Building of the hotel“Moscow”.
A panorama of people walking around the Izmailovsky park.

Source description 4: A panorama of the Ukrainian community chorus singing in the Izmaylovsk park.
Newsreel of the 40-ies:
Excavator scoop is pourings out soil.
Stone settlers are constructing a house.
Moscow streets.
Workers at the construction site, near crane, on the top of the house.
Worker Shabalin’s flat.
The writer F.V.Gladkov in his cabinet.
A house in Nemirovich-Danchenko street.
The film director G.V.Alexandrov in his cabinet.
Construction of a high rise building.
The performance of elevators.
Hoisting bricks in containers.
A worker is speaking with the help of a microphone.
Seniors are crossing the street.
V.I.Isayeva is speaking about her activity and life in Moscow.
People are at the “bandbox”; a panorama of women dancing and singing.
A panorama of an accordionist playing.
A picture of V. and N.Alishinys, who came in Moscow in 1971.
A panorama of N.Alishina speaking.

Source description 5: A panorama of Victor and Nadezhda Alishinys’ picture.
V. and N.Alishiny are speaking about their life.
Women are singing at the “bandbox”; a man is playing spoons.
Old women and a man are passing by; they are singing couplets.
The Orel region, the Lomovets village: people festivities in the street during wedding.
Children are looking out of the window.
Old people are looking at accordionists (V.Alishin is one of them).
N.Alishina and other women are singing couplets and dancing in the street.
Young people are dancing.
V.Alishin inside a car (he is a driver of Autopark No.2).
A house painter is stroking a wall in the house (in flight of stairs).
A picture of P.Isakov who arrived in Moscow in 1970.
Peter Isakov has to say for himself.
A panorama of P.Isakov dancing at the bandbox, singing couplets.
A woman is dancing and singing.
People are applauding.

Source description 6: A picture of women dancing and P.Isakov; a panorama of an accordionist playing.
P.Isakov is going on with his story.
Dances at the bandbox.
The accordionist is playing.
Old people are looking at him.
The married couple of the Sobolevys are telling about their meeting at the bandbox.
Pictures from the “Svetliy put’ (Light way) film.
Newsreel of the 50-ies:
Moscow streets.
I.P.Gomozenkov, P.I.Kazharskaya, S.A.Kovbasyuk, V.I.Isayeva, P.Isakov, V. and N.Alishiny are standing in a Moscow street, cars are passing by.
V. and N.Alishiny are among other passers-by in the street.

Directors: Khanyutin A.

Operators: Zaycev A., Lobov A.

Script writers: Degteva N., Vasileva I.

Text writers: Degteva N.