Meek People are Blessed

Meek People are Blessed , 1988 (46:38)

Annotation: About large families of the village of Voloye in the Kaluga Region.

Film description: 1.5 hours Large families of the village of White Kaluga region. The fate of mothers-heroines G. Labor, Drozdova, etc. Gen. large families. Problems of loss of rural traditions, the extinction of the villages.

Source description 1: A field, a rural road.
A panorama of a funeral procession on the road and mourner woman heading the procession; children running up.
Crosses on the graves.
A tablet on the grave with the epitaph “God, repose her soul. 1974”.
Ruined houses.
A ruined church.
A country road.
An elderly woman is speaking while sitting by the fence.
Grandma Aksinya and other women are talking.
A panorama of boys in the village street.
Young girls next to the house.
A village street.
Boys are throwing stones into the windows of a ruined house.
Rural boys and girls.
An elderly woman is chopping firewood.
A panorama of a field.
The mother of many children Galina Akimovna Trudovaya at the stove speaking about her life.
A picture of G.A. Trudovaya and her husband on the wall.
G.A. Trudovaya’s daughter is ringing the door bell.
G.A. Trudovaya’s husband with his children next to the house dressing up a child.
Children are playing near the house.
The mother of many children, Mother-Heroine Vera Andreevna Drozdova, is speakingabout herself.
Drozdova’s daughters.

Source description 2: Drozdova’s daughter Lyuba is eating an apple sitting on the floor.
Drozdova is telling about the position of mothers-heroines.
A panorama of Drozdova’s children going out of the house, a girl is washing in the street.
A cow herd is going by.
Drozdova with the children is going to the farm.
A panorama of the farm; Drozdova’s children working: a boy is pouring potatoes into the mangers, girls are milking a cow.
V.A. Drozdova is taking away the milking machine, with her daughter in the cowshed.
A panorama of the field.
Cobweb.
People are walking across the bridge to the hayfield.
A boy and a girl with rakes are walking by.
Women are mowing, the Alekseechkins.
Lyuba and other children of the Drozdovs family are tossing the hay.
A panorama of the father and his children drinking water.
A panorama of the river and cows.
The Alekseechkins family are having lunch in the field.
A panorama of the field.
People are passing by.
A panorama of Marina Drozdova in a school uniform learning by heart a poem by Nekrasov; her sister Lyuba is by her side.
A panorama of the field and groves.
A girl is speaking.
V.A. Drozdova with children is at the stove.
Girls are tidying up the room and sweeping the floor.
A picture of Drozdova’s son on the wall.
V.A. Drozdova is speaking about herself.
The grandmother with her grandchildren in the kitchen.
Drozdov and his daughter are talking in the street.
Girls are washing the father’s truck.
A girl in the kitchen.
Kittens.

Source description 3: Children are running along the rural road and playing.
G.A. Trudovaya is speaking about her life while cooking at the stove.
Children are peeling potatoes on the threshold.
A panorama of G.A. Trudovaya going to the garden with a bucket.
Trudovaya’s children are digging potatoes and putting them into the bag.
A panorama of the village.
An old woman with a stick is passing by.
A chapel.
Icons, an old woman is placing a candle, old women are praying.
Children are swinging, in the peasant hut, in a room and looking out of the window.
The Bible on the table.
An iconostasis.
The clouds in the sky.
A blossoming bur.
Children are sitting on the grass.
V.A. Drozdova with her daughters is going to the bath-house.
A panorama of girls washing themselves.
A panorama of V.A. Drozdova brushing her daughter’ hair.
A panorama of girls brushing their hair after bath.
Children with motorcycles and bicycles in the street.
Children are looking through binoculars.
Old women and a man are singing and dancing in the street.
A panorama of the Alekseechkins’ children watching from behind the fence.
Alekseechkin with his daughters next to the house.
A dog is sitting.
The spouses Alekseechkins are sitting on the grass, children are swimming in the river.
An apiary, bees in the hive.
An old woman is peeling potatoes outdoors.
Honeycombs in the bee-keeper’s hands.
Grandma Anisya is carrying vegetables from the kitchen garden.
Hands are placing bread into the oven.
The mother and her daughter are placing the dough into the mould.
An icon.
The mother of 12 children Natalya Golovenkova is telling about her adopted daughter Lyuba, her husband and Lyuba are sitting next to her.
Pictures of the Golovenkovs family.

Source description 4: Pictures of the Golovenkovs family.
A panorama of the spouses Golovenkovs talking in the street.
A panorama of the Golovenkovs’s children.
V.I. Drozdova is speaking at home.
A panorama of the woman hanging mats on the fence.
A panorama of Viktor Alekseechkin sitting next to the house and speaking about the hard life of mothers of many children.
G.A. Trudovaya is speaking about herself at home.
The woman is entering the shed.
Shoes are being dried on the fence.
A woman is taking away mats from the fence.
The woman with a child near a water-pump.
A landscape with a river.
Women are rinsing linen.
A herd is going along the village at the sunset.
V.A. Drozdova and her children are milking cows.
A panorama of the evening village.
The Drozdovs’ family are dining and talking.
A cat is lapping milk on the floor.
The girl Anya is putting a baby into the bed.

Source description 5: The Festival in the Honor of Mothers-Heroines in the village of Volos, Kirov Region: an orchestra’s actors is walking along the road, followed by mothers of many children.
A family is walking along the village.
A panorama of girls in red dresses offering “bread and salt” (traditional Russian welcoming custom) to the mothers-heroines and singing.
Parents with many children are at the festive table, the Drozdovs and Trudovye’s families are among them.
Girls singing are walking around the table.
The master of ceremonies of the festival is speaking about V.A. Drozdova.
Men are singing on the stage; a poster can be seen behind with the writer Maxim Gorky’s quotation: “Let’s praise a mother…”
A night landscape.
A river landscape.
A woman with children is walking along the rural road.
The ground (a river, fields, a road and villages).

Directors: Zhukovskaya I.

Operators: Kochetkov A.

Script writers: Karpova T.