A Person Needs a Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder. [Present-Day Planet #11].

A Person Needs a Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder. [Present-Day Planet #11]. , 1989 (18:44)

Annotation: The film tells about establishment of the State Rescue Service in the USSR.

Film description: The film tells about the need to create in the USSR, a special rescue service. Frames taken during natural disasters: flood, earthquake, volcanic eruption. Ph.D. in Geology and Mineralogy I. Janicki tells about the earthquake in Armenia in 1988 (synchronously). Streets in the Armenian SSR, affected by the earthquake. People apart the rubble after the earthquake. Victims of the earthquake, telling about his experiences (synchronously). The funeral of Armenians who died during the earthquake. People's deputy of the USSR AA Sobchak gives interviews (synchronously). Participants rescue give interviews. Different processes of restoration work on the streets of one of the cities of Armenia. People sit around the fires in the street. A doctor from Italy who arrived in Armenia to conduct operations to rescue people, give interviews (simultaneous translation). People, affected by the earthquake in the ward. Participant rescue caver AV Terent'ev gives interviews (synchronously). Streets Leninakan affected by the earthquake. People's deputy of the USSR GS Igityan gives interviews (synchronously).

Source description 1: Japan: people are staying at their work places during the earthquake.
Armenia: the statue that has fallen down after the earthquake.
A city after the earthquake.
A stretcher with a dead body is being carried; a wounded person is being carried.

A flood in the city, a panorama from the helicopter.
Rescuers, standing belt-deep in water, are helping flood victims.
People are passing by.
An eruption.
People are running.
Armenia. Consequences of the earthquake: people are carrying coffins, crying at the coffins.
A small boy is watching.
A panorama of I. N. Yanitsky, Ph.D. in Geology and Mineralogy, speaking about the earthquake.
A city after the earthquake.
A destroyed street.
An old woman.
People are sorting out rubbles.
A person lying under the slab.
The witnesses of the earthquake are telling about it.
A destroyed house.
Rescuers are at work; a dead body is being put into the coffin.
People are crying.
A boy at the coffins.
The USSR People’s Deputy A.A. Sobchak in his office is speaking about the need to establish a State Rescue Service.
A panorama of a destroyed elevator.
Mountain rescuers from the town of Vorkuta are working.
A crane is operating.

Source description 2: Equipment in a destroyed city street.
Coffins in the city streets.
A car with a coffin is going along the street.
The rescuer-speleologist A. V. Terentyev,is speaking indoors.
An old woman in the street.
People are sitting at the fire in the street.
A woman is sitting at the destroyed house.
Cars and coffins in the square.
Foreign rescuers with a dog and a radio set are working.
Polish rescuers are working at the rubbles.
An Italian doctor, a representative of the Association of Alpine Shooters, which rendered assistance to Armenia, is speaking indoors.
A panorama of rescuers working; women crying; a panorama of doctors rendering assistance to the rescued people; people are being carried down from the helicopter and up to the helicopter; a panorama of rescuers brining a woman into to Emergency Ambulance.
A.A. Sobchak is making a speech.
Armenia. Earthquake victims are in the hospital.
Destructions in the city.
Rescuers are walking by.
People are carrying coffins, crying.
A grave.
The USSR People’s Deputy G.S. Igityan is speaking in the room.
Women are crying, a panorama of a stand with pictures of the dead or lost people.
A woman with a child is standing.
A woman is holding the passport of her dead son.
A small Armenian boy is looking.

Directors: Kheyfets S.

Operators: Duplich V., Pershin O.

Script writers: Kheyfets S., Gudieva L.