Responsible for the Future (1977)

V. L. Khara performs.

The audience sings along.

Photo by V. L. Khara.

Moscow meeting of writers and public figures, people talking in the lobby.

Meeting of writers in the office.

Says the Turkish writer A. Nesin.

Ch. T. Aitmatov.

Fragments of interviews with famous writers and poets:

English poet E. Mitchell.

The Cypriot poet E. Pianidou.

Soviet writer K. M. Simonov.

The American short story writer W.Saroyan.

Writers at the round table.

K. M. Simonov smokes a pipe.

Says the German writer G. Kant.

E. Mitchell.

Alternation: at the microphone, the poet A. A. Voznesensky, the faces of writers, paintings by F. Goya.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War:

Watchtowers and concentration camp fencing.

The oven in the crematorium.

Corpses of prisoners of the camp.

It is raining, the car "wipers" are working (shooting from the cab).

Traffic on the road.

Cars on the street of the destroyed city.

View from the car on the road, people and tanks on the roadsides.

Overturned and burned vehicles.

The car goes around a man with a stick.

Painting by F. Goya.

Painting by R. Santi "Madonna and Child".

Icon of A. Rublev "Trinity".

Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Madonna Litta".

Alternation of paintings, frescoes, sculptures, engravings, drawings.

Street view, bas-relief painting on the wall of the building.

Fragments of a bas-relief.

Tells K. M. Simonov.

Portrait of A. A. Blok.

Chronicle of the First World War:

Panorama of the area of military operations, explosions are thundering.

Alternation: soldiers near guns, explosions.

German tank A7VU.

Soldiers in the trenches.

Explosions.

View of the front zone from the plane, smoke floats above the ground.

Soldiers on the fortifications.

Portrait AABlock.

Chronicle of the revolutionary events: Marching militias.

View of the Neva.

Hours at night by the fire.

Go soldiers behind them riding armored vehicles.

An armed detachment.

The streets are filled with soldiers, soldiers riding in a truck.

The troops sent to the Smolny.

Photo AABlock.

Poems AABlock on a background of clouds.

Talk AABlock and Mayakovsky.

Photos Mayakovsky.

Campaign posters and drawings.

Pictures of graphic artists, part of the image shows the transition from negative to positive.

Department of Russian literature in a foreign bookstore.

The man at the desk in the reading room. "Decree on Peace" on a newspaper page.

Leaf People magazine in the store.

Foreign literature devoted to the revolution.

Chronicle of the early XX century: The rally in the square banner above the crowd.

At the meeting there D.S.Rid. D.S.Rid refers to someone behind the scenes looks at the newspaper, taking notes in a notebook.

Writers talk at the round table.

Arrival of a train.

From the train leaves A.Barbyus.

A.Barbyusa Solemn meeting at the station.

People on the platform meet arriving train.

From the train leaves F.V.Nansen. F.V.Nansen is the platform to meet and accompanied by journalists. F.V.Nansen sits in the car.

Hungry winter in the Volga region, destroyed homes.

Groups of children and adults on the streets, queues for food.

People go out of the house, sitting on the porch of children with bowls.

The man pulls out a spoon and try the food.

Camel carts.

Types of Leningrad.

A column of people accompanies a military band.

The crowd at the Theater Square in Moscow.

Actors Theater, at the head of the column before entering the demonstration.

Stanislavsky.

Photo Sergei Eisenstein.

Kinoafisha.

The frames of the film "Battleship" Potemkin "(1905).

Photo Vertov (D.A.Kaufmana).

Frames of film "Three Songs of Lenin" (1934).

Lenin speaks at a rally.

The crowd welcomed the leader.

National flags on the building.

The emblem of the X International Film Festival in Moscow.

Says Senegalese writer and director U.Semben. S.F.Bondarchuk among colleagues.

A fragment of an interview with the Italian director B.Bertoluchchi.

Stands with photographs.

Members and guests of the festival in the lobby.

Japanese filmmaker tells K.Sindo.

Alternating: The guests of the festival, an interview with Sergei Gerasimov.

Chronicle 1930: Panorama of Red Square in Moscow.

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky. R.Tagor on Red Square.

Lenin Mausoleum. R.Tagor meets with the Communists.

Visit to Russia D.B.Shou writer walks in the park. D.B.Shou posing for a sculptor.

Panorama forecourt. D.B.Shou out of the car.

At the station, a crowd of people accompanied the writer.

D.B.Shou in the village.

Writer with the camera. D.B.Shou talking with people.

Dinner al fresco.

Writer of children. B.D.Shou and G.D.Uells Koltushi village in the Leningrad region.

G.D.Uells visiting Pavlov, writer and academician family posing for a group photo.

Photo.

People go to the Lenin Mausoleum.

The sentries at the entrance to the mausoleum.

G.D.Uells with accompanying leaves the mausoleum.

Construction of the Dnieper.

Celebrations to mark the completion of the 1st phase of construction.

Those workers.

All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers.

Alternation: applause, participants and guests of the congress.

On the podium Gorky.

Those delegates.

Talk Gorky and R. Rollan.

Writers strolling in the park.

Alternating: the flag of the Third Reich on the background wall of a building, a massive book burnings in Germany.

Alternation: a top view of a crowd of people, Adolf Hitler speech.

Marsh crowd. P.T.Mann reading a book.

Einstein gets up from the table and puts the book on the shelf.

Scientist walks around the office with a pipe in his mouth.

Above the stadium bleachers fly military aircraft.

Animation: the crowds, the slogans, the seizure of territories on the map of Europe, Hitler's picture.

Drop bombs from the plane.

The explosions, burning houses.

Crumbling buildings.

Painting by Pablo Picasso's "Guernica".

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: Last minute rural houses.

Man on the gallows, people put a ladder on the street spreads smoke.

Screams elderly woman.

People near the burning houses.

View of the Peter and Paul fortress with water.

People halt window (wartime blackout).

Shostakovich is working on the creation of the Leningrad Symphony.

The composer lights a cigarette.

The name of the symphony.

The composer at the piano.

People were running down the street.

Clouds of dust under the crumbling wall of the building.

Lit House.

Sculptures.

Traces of fire monuments.

Panorama of the battle zone.

People leave the city.

Soldiers.

Wall clock in a ruined house.

Family carries belongings on a two-wheeled cart.

A column of people going through the ruined city.

Girls wash on the ruins of the house.

Girls come from home, arranged in downed Nazi plane.

Soldiers smoked at rest.

Writer A.A.Fadeev at the front. I.G.Erenburg in the squad.

Tvardovsky read poems to the soldiers.

Alternation: Soldiers cook on a fire, the soldiers on vacation.

The photo.

Drawings of Lithuanian graphic artist S.A.Krasauskasa.

Drawings by the Lithuanian graphic artist S. A. Krasauskas, the poem by A. T. Tvardovsky "I was killed near Rzhev" sounds behind the scenes.

War memorials in the cities of the USSR.

G. A. Jokubonis works in the workshop.

Interview with the sculptor.

Monument "Mother of Pirchupis".

Memorial in Khatyn.

Chronicle of 1945:

Panorama of the square, mass public prayer.

Burning candles.

People disassemble candles and sticks.

A woman cries at the wall with the names of the dead.

Sadako Sasaki monument in Hiroshima.

Funeral ceremony on the day of remembrance of the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Atomic explosions.

Drawing.

Participants of peaceful demonstrations, panorama of the square.

Applause from the audience.

J. F. Joliot-Curie speaks on the podium.

A. A. Fadeev and L. Aragon.

P. Picasso.

At the microphone, P. Robson.

E. Cotton among the audience.

People applauding.

R. Kent answers questions from a journalist.

P. Neruda.

I. G. Ehrenburg.

N. K. Guillen Batista.

A. Zegers enters the office.

Japanese singer A. Seki.

A. E. Korneychuk shakes hands with women.

Turkish poet N. H. Ras.

I. Blum with the interlocutor.

D. D. Bernal on the podium.

M. F. G. E. Niemeller performs.

A column of demonstrators.

Drawing.

A glass with brushes in front of a fragment of a painting.

Italian artist R. Guttuso.

Paintings.

French caricaturist J.Effel at work.

Drawing.

Says W.Saroyan.

Alternation: participants of the Moscow meeting of writers, speech by Ch. T. Aitmatov.

Yu. L. G. Vidal talks about war and peace, about the relations of East and West.

American newsreel of different years:

The military perform in the stands.

A crying woman in the crowd.

American soldiers before being sent to Vietnam.

A soldier adjusts his equipment.

A soldier walks through the reeds.

Soldiers on a country road.

Soldiers escort a woman with children.

Troops in a ruined village.

Spraying toxic substances from an airplane.

Dropping bombs.

Explosions.

Crying women and children.

An injured elderly woman on the ground.

Washington, White House.

Outside the White House, a protest demonstration is taking place, with Vietnam War veterans harshly speaking out about government policy and throwing away military awards.

Cadres of political meetings.

Aircraft carrier at sea.

Powered radar.

Fighter rises into the sky.

Aircraft in the grid run, hit, explosion.

The launching of rockets.

Helsinki, cars drove up to the building and stopped at the entrance.

Pan-European conference of OSCE of 1975.

The signing of the Helsinki Final Act.

Press photographers.

Applause participants.

Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin.

Applause participants Kremlin meeting of workers of culture.

Serves writer G.M.Markov.

Audience numbers.

General view of the hall.

International meeting "The Writer and the World" in Sofia.

The meeting opens a French writer E.Bazen.

K.M.Simonov among the participants and guests of the meeting.

Alternation: a fragment of an interview with E.A.Evtushenko writers talking during a break.

Fragment of speech E.A.Evtushenko.

Chronicle of different years: Women and children go through the desert.

Protests of workers on the plantation, a woman brandishing a policeman.

The soldiers dragged through the grass killed.

The person wounded.

Dog Rocks on the man.

Alternating the photos and newsreel footage of popular unrest in various countries, demonstrations, arrests and riots in the streets.

The session devoted to the struggle for peace.

View of the Kremlin.

Applause.

Lenin Prize Ceremony Greek poet Ya.

Ritsosu.

Ya.

Ritsos speaking at the podium.

The award ceremony L.Aragona Order of Friendship of Peoples.

Drawings of Lithuanian graphic artist S.A.Krasauskasa.

Moscow Kremlin.

American skyscrapers.

Streets of London.

Eiffel Tower, people on the streets of Paris.

Residents of cities around the world.

Pictures.