KGB town (1993)

Documentary №39761, 5 parts, duration: 0:47:08
Production: Sverdlovsk newsreel studio
Director:V.Yarmoshenko
Screenwriters:Yarmoshenko
Camera operators:Yarmoshenko

Annotation:

In the centre of Yekaterinburg there lies a material example of fantasies of constructionists and communist futurists. The Chekist Town: history, myths and present days.

Reel №1

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The man puts the gun in the safe.

The investigator (synchronously) about the murder.

Woman (synchronously).

View of the residential area from above.

TITLE: The town of chekists.

A house in the form of a horseshoe.

The girl is doing stretching at home.

In another room, a man and a woman are playing with a dog.

A woman in the kitchen is washing dishes.

An old woman comes out into the hallway.

A little girl combs her hair in front of the mirror.

A woman accompanies her husband and daughter.

An old woman is reading a newspaper in the room.

Photos from the family album (30-40s).

Chronicle:Yekaterinburg, mansions of rich people and houses in a working settlement.

Monument Ya .

Sverdlov.

Yekaterinburg of the 90s.

Two cats are sitting on the windowsill.

A woman (synchronously) about a horseshoe house and a town of security officers.

Children at the swing in the yard.

An elderly couple is sitting on a bench.

A man (synchronously) about the town of chekists.

A man is hanging laundry in the yard.

Locations: Yekaterinburg [886]

Reel №2

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A car pulled up to the house.

A man on a bench is talking to a woman (synchronously).

Queue for food orders.

Distribution of products according to lists (in the basement).

A woman brought groceries to the hou

Locations: Yekaterinburg [886]

Seasons: Summer [824]

Reel №3

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Horseshoe house in the evening.

Restaurant hall.

Chronicle: a canteen in the town of chekists.

A woman and a man play chess (chronicle).

A man cleans a revolver.

A picture of a man on the wall in the room.

The oldest resident of the town (synchronously) about her husband the security officer.

Large: foot sewing machine.

The head of the administration on the future of the town of chekists (synchronously).

Dzerzhinsky recreation center on the territory of the town of chekists.

An old woman walks around the room, cleans something, shifts it.

Panorama of the house in the town of Chekists, on the peeling walls.

Locations: Yekaterinburg [886]

Seasons: Summer [824]

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A man walks through the forest.

A woman walks through the forest.

A group of people in the forest.

There are plaques with the names of the dead people on the trees.

There is a funeral procession: the military carry coffins.

People follow the procession with coffins.

A man is at the microphone (synchronously) about repression.

A panorama of people's faces.

Chronicle: construction site, parade of athletes, competitions in grenade throwing, shooting, running, etc.

The priest passes with a censer along the dug moat.

A man is being carried on a stretcher.

A man on a stretcher is put into an ambulance.

Cadets (synchronously).

A horseshoe house, a view of the Chekist town from above.

Men are playing dominoes.

Calendar: 1930-1937

Locations: Yekaterinburg [886]

Seasons: Summer [824]

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The basement of the house.

Several men walk around the basement with flashlights.

The horseshoe house.

Hitting one of the bay windows.

Hitting the attic window.

Investigator (synchronously).

A woman looks out of the window and smokes.

A woman walks with a shepherd dog, throws her a stick.

A memorial plaque on the house of the town of chekists.

Monument to Sverdlov.

The investigator stands in the office and looks out the window.

Photo of the 30s: a woman lies in a swimsuit on the seashore.

An old woman is sleeping sitting on the sofa.

A man and a woman are walking in the yard.

View of the horseshoe house from above.

The city from a helicopter.

The man puts the revolver in the safe.

Locations: Yekaterinburg [886]

Seasons: Summer [824] Winter [823]

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