Power of the Ground.

Power of the Ground. , 1988 (28:7)

Annotation: About the IV All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers.

Film description: The IV All-Union Congress of the farmers. Speeches delegates, Mikhail Gorbachev, communication on the sidelines of the congress. Life and work in various sectors of the economy, the collective farm. Lenin Gorky region. and agro "Adagio" of the Latvian Soviet Union. Conversations about the future of their village chairmen MG Vagina and AE Kaulsa.

Source description 1: A landscape with the a small river.
A panorama of flying birds.
Carved cover plates on the windows.
A cat sitting by the fence.
A panorama of a child being washed.
A panorama of a girl having her braid pleached.
A panorama of a child having breakfast.
A glass is being filled with milk.
A family at the table.
Girl’s face .
Bread is being cut.
A panorama of tractor going.
Children are being taken to the kinder garden.
A worker is laying a glass piece onto the greenhouse roof .
A panorama of children going to school.
A panorama of a cyclist passing by.
Women are talking to each other.
Children entering the school.
A panorama of a machine yard of the farm.
A panorama of a car going past.
Faces of an old man and an old woman.
The women are going along the rural road.
Silo towers.
A panorama of tractor going.
An old man is making a wooden frame.
A woman is washing clothes.
A ploughed field.
The delegates of the IV All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers walking.
The delegates are entering the Kremlin Palace of Congresses .
The delegates are in the lobby.
The delegates of the Congress M. Vagin, A. Kauls and Gontar are speaking in the lobby.
The delegates are on the escalator.
A sculpture of Lenin.
Presidium Members are going out .
A panorama of the audience applauding.
The USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev is at the tribune.
Everybody is listening in the Hall.
A panorama of a cameraman shooting.
The newsreel of 1918-1920.
The Decree on Land.
The inscription: “The ground has become a common national property”.
The land surveyors are walking along the field.
The inscription: “How to Live Further?”
Peasants’ faces.
The inscription: “Ask Lenin for a Piece of Advice”.
A picture: peasants’representatives at Lenin’s.
The newsreel of the 1920-1930-s.
The inscription “Small Farms Can not Get Rid of Poverty”.
A Lenin’s book .
A peasant standing.
The inscription: “The Leninist Ideas of Cooperation Find a Response in the Masses”.
The peasants are building a blockhouse.
Applauding people at the IV All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers.
The newsreel of the 1930-s:
A globe and a sculpture.
A building.
The inscription: “All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition”.
A mill.
People at the mill.

People are at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements .
A man is riding a camel.
The inscription: “First Successes of Cooperators”.
Earing oats, clover, potatoes and rye.

Source description 2: The newsreel of 1929-1930:
People entering collective farms.
A man is sitting at the table.
The inscription: “1929: Long Live the Collective Farm!”.
The peasants are at the meeting.
The inscription: “Do not Listen to Kulaks [rich peasants-exploiters] and Podkulachniks [peasants cooperating with rich peasants-exploiters]”.
Men and a woman are speaking.
The inscription: “The Revolutionary Centre of Peasantry Has Bravely Decided to Break the Old Order”.
Peasants are taking the horses out.
Applause.
The inscription: “1935”.
The Kremlin.
The inscription: “The Best Representatives of the Collective Farm Family Have Gathered in Moscow to Discuss Together With Their Government a New Collective Farm Charter”.
Everybody in the Hall is applauding.
Stalin and the Soviet statesman Molotov are at the tribune.
The inscription: “To the Best Collective Farmer, Best Worker Comrade Stalin”.
Applauding people.

The audience in the Hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses is applauding.
A monitor.
A man is listening.
Mikhail Gorbachev is speaking.
A panorama of a woman and man listening.
The delegates are speaking in the lobbies of the Congress, Vagin is among them.
The Chairman of the All-Union Council of the Collective Farmers Kukhar is speaking from the tribune of the Congress.
Applauding people.
Different delegates are speaking at the tribune.
A television camera.
Vegetables in the store.
Dairy products in the shop window.
Canned goods.
A panorama of the guide of the USSR Exhibition of the Economic Achievements speaking.
A group listening .
Pamphlets.
A cow herd on the pasture.
A man and a woman listening.
A welder at work.
Workers are setting a steel frame.
People listening to the guide.
A combine harvester in the field.
Grain in hands.
Hero of Socialist Labor and the Chairman of the All-Russian Council of Collective Farmers Starodubtsev, is in the field.
A panorama of the people listening to the guide.
A stand with pamphlets.
Exhibits.
A panorama of a village.
Builders are glazing a greenhouse.
Brick is being delivered by elevator .
A panorama of woman riding a bicycle.
A woman with a baby carriage.
Girls.
A pet’s corner with hamsters.
Children are in the pool; passing by in the checkroom.
A panorama of girls walking along the street.
The agro-firm head Kauls is speaking.
A panorama of a riding cyclist.
A panorama of a bakery.
A panorama of a food shop.
A panorama of potatoes in the cellophane packs.
Packs production .
A panorama of a chemical laboratory.
Laboratory assistant with flasks.
A panorama of test tubes.
A panorama of the women pouring seedlings in the greenhouse.

Source description 3: A landscape with the road.
A panorama of the cow herd on the pasture.
Mikhail Vagin, Hero of Socialist Labor and the Chairman of the farm named after Lenin in the Gorkiy region, is speaking.
Cows are expelled.
A man is opening the pound door.
The cows are coming out.
A control panel of the cattle-breeding complex.
A television screen.
The Hero of Socialist Labor and the Chairman of the agro-firm “Adazhi” in the Latvian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) Albert Kauls with a worker of the complex.
A herd of cows.
Storks in the nest.
A man is building a brick wall.
Building.
A car entering the overpass.
Reparation of the car.
A cistern is being filled with milk.
A woman is going down the road.
Posters.
A firewood are being plotted.
A panorama of the boarded up cottage.
A poster.
A panorama of a woman carrying a bread.
A panorama of a cart coming up to the store.
A cat.
A women painting handicrafts.
Albert Kauls and Mikhail Vagin are talking.
A tractor is skidding.
A horse going along the road.
A rural street.
A cock.
Posters.
A car yard.

The children are playing near the house.
A man is carrying a bread.
A rural street.
A wooden house is being built.
Brick on the elevator
A panorama of the construction site.
Production of polyethylene packs.
A woman is passing by.
Children with their teacher passing by.
Tractors in the field.

Directors: Zhukovskaya I.

Operators: Kochetkov A.

Script writers: Zhukovskaya I., Karpov B.