Strangers

Strangers , 1989 (25:15)

Annotation: About the people who have united to restore the Belopesotsky Monastery. About dificult and sometimes tragical situations they have to face.

Film description: On the restorers, reducing Trinity-belolesotsky monastery in the town of Stupino, Moscow Region.

Source description 1: The old peasant woman A. Inozemtseva is walking along the cemetery, crying at her father’s grave, crossing herself.
Trees, the sun.
Crosses.
A panorama of the cemetery and flowers.
The self-taught philosopher and craftsman Valery Tungulin is speaking indoors about the Belopesotsky Monastery.
A boat is sailing down the river.
Old litographies of the Belopesotsky Monastery (near the town of Stupino).
V. Tungulin is sailing by boat, heading it towards the berth, getting out of the boat, walking along the road, getting through the hole in the fence.
The Belopesotsky Monastery; the dome.
A young woman named Marina Larionova is walking along the Monastery territory, speaking about herself, standing in the window frame.
A disco; Marina is dancing.
Young men are dancing.
A Stupino town street, a panorama of the slogan: “Let’s turn Stupino into a perfect order town!”
People are entering the wine shop.
A man is coming out with several bottles of vodka.
A queue to the wine shop.
A policeman is bringing in the criminals, their handcuffs are being taken off.
The restorer Evgeny Korchagin who has been attacked by the criminals is speaking.

Source description 2: A panorama of the restorers’ room in the house in the Troitsko-Belopesotsky Monastery [Holy Trinity-Belopesotsky Monastery] territory.
The doctor of the emergency ambulance crew L. Muratova is speaking indoors.
The court: a panorama of the Jury and the accused V. and N. Voronkovs and V. Pankratov who have beaten up and wounded E. Korchagin.
A picture of the criminals’ knives.
The accused are on the wrong side of the bar.
The judge is reading out the indictment.
Listeners in the court.
Hands are holding a paper.
Pictures from the case.
The accused with the policeman.
They are putting handcuffs on the accused.
E. Korchagin is speaking.
Children in the forest.
The inside view of the half-ruined Belopesotsky Monastery.
A panorama of the dump at the Monastery walls.
A panorama of the barbed wire.
The ruined walls of the Monastery.
A dredge is cleaning up the territory.
The Monastery.
A panorama of tree roots in the wall.
A panorama of bricks lying at the Monastery
V. Tungulin is taking the bricks and restoring the wall.
A panorama of a man hewing a log.
The Monastery.
A panorama of the Monastery in scaffolding.
The restorers at work.
The partly restored Monastery.
V. Tungulin is speaking.
A panorama of the Monastery domes.
A general view of the Monastery from the river.

Source description 3: A panorama of a branchy tree.
A. Inozemtseva is entering the Monastery.
A panorama of hands cutting apples; a panorama of the wall with pictures.
A. Inozemtseva is speaking; praying.
The church dome, a panorama of the barn, the door is opening.
A panorama of children in the bushes.
The ground cracked with heat.
A panorama of sawn trees lying on the ground.
The roots that have grown into the building.
A panorama of the dome from inside.
A panorama of the wall inside and the grate on the window.
The remains of painting on the walls.

Directors: Kuzmina V.

Operators: Kuzmin V.