Road.

Road. , 1990 (51:47)

Annotation: About the collective farm “Dvenadzaty oktyabr” [“The 12-th October”] in the Kostroma Region and its chairman, twice Hero of Socialist Labour, Praskovya Andreevna Malinina.

Film description: The film was shot on the farm XII in October Kostroma region, which more than 20 years led the chairman of the kolkhoz PA Malinin. The farmers, native PA Malinina share memories (synchronously). Interviews Pozina judges and investigator Romanova (synchronously). Village Samet. Bust PA Malinin. Church. Cemetery. Tomb of PA Malinin. Kolhoznicy work in the vegetable store. Guests at the holiday table. Priest Father Ardalion provides service in the church and a memorial service at the cemetery, giving an interview (in sync, says of drunkenness and alcoholism in the village). House PA Malinina with a plaque. Monument to Lenin. Monument to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Personnel Chronicle on PA Malinina for different years. Photos from various years. Voice PA Malinin (VO).

Source description 1: The Kostroma Region, the collective farm “Dvenadzaty oktyabr”, women are sorting out potatoes in the vegetable store.
A monument to Lenin in the city of Kostroma.
An electrical engineer is climbing up the pole.
A panorama of a man passing by the village house.
Women are harvesting potatoes in the field.
A panorama of the village of Samet, central farm houses.
Bust of the Hero of Socialist Labout, former head of the collective farm “Dvenadzaty oktyabr”, Praskovya Andreevna Malinina.
A panorama of a church; P.A. Malinina’s gravestone.
Newsreel of the 1940-1950-s.
The head of the farm, Praskovya Malinina, at the farm.
Dairymaids working.
Cows in the collective farm.
Malinina and dairymaids are pouring off the milk.
P.A. Malinina with a Hero of Socialist Labour Order on her chest at the village house with collective farmers.
The view of the Kremlin from the Bolshoi Kamenny Most [the Big Stone Bridge].
People in Soviet Republics national costumes are going by bus.
The sculpture “Rabochy i Kolkhozniza” [“The Worker and the Female Collective Farmer”].
Entrance to the Exhibition of Economic Achievements.
People in national costumes are dancing.
P.A. Malinina is sharing experience with dairymaids at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements.

Women are sorting out potatoes.
The bust of P.A. Malinina.
A village street: puddles, poor houses.
A panorama of the village at night.
A small house with alight windows.
A woman is speaking.
A newsreel: a panorama of P.A. Malinina’s birthday: Malinina’s sister is speaking, P.A. Malinina is signing comic couplets, women are listening.

Source description 2: The People’s Court building in Kostroma: the People’s Judge L.A. Pozin is telling about P.A. Malinina in his office.
A picture of people in the field; P.A. Malinina at the Presidium.
A newsreel of the 1950-1960-s.
P.A. Malinina in the cowshed is sharing experience with dairymaids, P.A. Malinina at the meeting.
P.A. Malinina and Academic I.T. Lysenko visiting her collective farm, are drinking milk.
A cowshed.
A milk pipe-line.
A conveyor, production of milk packs; P.A. Malinina and the collective farm chairman V.D. Nokulin at the conveyor.
A picture of Malinina with collective farmers in the field.

The Kostroma Police Department investigator A.V. Romanov is telling about P.A. Malinina indoors.
Malinina’s daughter is telling about her mother at home.
A kitten is playing with letters in the trunk.
A panorama of letters.
A panorama of the bust of P.A. Malinina.
A panorama of a picture of Malinina.
Newsreel of 1974.
Newsreel “Nash Krai” [“Our Land”], Issue # 60.
The Culture Center of the collective farm “Dvenadzaty oktyabr”.
P.A. Malinina is talking to a woman in the street.
The book “Volzhskie Vetry” [“Volga River Winds”] by Malinina.
Pictures in the book.

A panorama of the museum “Zolotaya Slava Sameti” [“Samets Golden Fame”].
The book “Dumy o novom ustave kolkhoza” [“Thoughts About a New Collective Farm Chamber”] by Malinina.
The former head of greenhouses L.A. Nepryakhina is speaking about Malinina at home.

Source description 3: The head of the fur farm of the collective farm “Dvenadzaty oktyabr” L.N. Nilulina is telling about P.A. Malinina.
Newsreel of the 1960-s.
P.A. Malinina is sitting at the desk.
Textbooks on the desk.
A clock on the wall, a picture of the Russian poet Sergey Esenin.
P.A. Malinina at the hairdresser’s; hairdressers – a man and a woman – at work.
Malinina and women in national costumes are signing.

A panorama of the elderly woman – inhabitant of in the village of Samet telling about Malinina in the street.
A priest is giving a sermon.
A panorama of Father Ordalion serving.
The Monument to the Perished Soldiers in Samet (a sculpture of the soldier with a boy).
A village street in autumn.
Father Ordalion is speaking about villager inhabitants at home.
A panorama of a woman in the cemetery tidying up a grave, crying; a dog beside her.
The gravestone with the inscription: “Kanarin Igor Vasilevich. 1932-1989”.
Sagging house roofs; the cemetery.
A panorama of the cemetery; Father Ordalion is getting out of the church, walking along the street.
A panorama of elderly women talking.
The bust of P.A. Malinina in the street of Samet.

Source description 4: Newsreel:
Young pioneers’ meeting dedicated to P.A. Malinina’s birthday in the pioneer unit named after her, pioneers are reporting and reciting poetry.
A picture of Malinina with poets, outstanding compatriots, members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and the former collective farm head V.D. Nikulin at the festive table.
Malinina at the table, brushing her hair.
Village houses.

An elderly countrywoman is speaking in the street.
A panorama of old women sorting out onions in the field and talking.
A basket with onions.
A picture of collective farmers with orders.
L.A. Nepryakhina and her husband are talking.
Newsreel of 1976:
P.A. Malinina is speaking.
P.A. Malinina and delegates of the XXV Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) are entering the hall.
The hall.
Delegates and the Presidium are applauding.

Father Ordalion is speaking.
L.I. Nikulina is speaking.
A panorama of collective farmers gathering cabbage and carrying it to the vegetable store.

Source description 5: V.D.Nikulin is driving a car.
A picture of P. Malinina and V. Nikulin; a picture of Malinina and others at the table.
Newsreel of the 1960-s:
P.A. Malinina and youth are dancing in the club; a cameraman is shooting.

A village house, flowers.
V.D. Nikulin at the house is speaking about P. Malinina
L.I. Nikulina next to the house.
A picture of Malinina signing, dancing in the street, on stage with pioneers, soldiers, on the armored carrier.
Newsreel:
Malinina is speaking.

A panorama of an elderly woman speaking in the street, a dog beside her.
A man is looking though the window.
A man and a woman are walking along the village.
A woman in the cemetery at Malinina’s grave.
A monument at Malinina’s grave.
A woman is crossing herself, passing through the cemetery gate.
A panorama of the sermon in the church.
Candles are burning.
Women are praying.
An icon.

Source description 6: Icons.
A panorama of women praying.
Candles.
A church.
A panorama of canes at dawn.
A panorama of a village house.
A panorama of an elderly man playing the accordion.
A haystack in the wind.
A tree.
Alight window.
A flock with a shepherd is passing by.
Malinina’s house with the memorial plaque, lights are being switched off.
The bust of Malinina (it is raining in the night).
A panorama of a man standing in the street.

Directors: Skabard T.

Operators: Voroncov S.

Script writers: Ivchenko V.