Tales of the Ural Mountains (1968)

Title - the film uses fragments of letters, articles, speeches by P. P. Bazhov, photographs by P. P. Bazhov, works by I. Tyufyakov, A. Isakov, I. Shubin, M. Ozersky.

The inscription on the stone - Tales of the Ural Mountains.

An artistic fragment is a meeting between Stepan and the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

The mistress of the Copper Mountain shows Stepan her treasures.

She gives him a malachite jewelry box.

Photos-portrait of P. P. Bazhov with a pipe.

Large-large gemstone.

Frames with gems - jasper, malachite, lapis lazuli.

Gold nuggets.

Photos-portraits of P. P. Bazhov.

Large-translucent stones of an oblong shape.

A text appears on a piece of paper.

Large-malachite.

An artistic fragment based on the works of P. P. Bazhov-masters are engaged in stone processing.

A young master makes a stone bowl.

Guests in the hut are considering a ready-made malachite bowl.

An artistic fragment - a young master is talking with the bride, the guests are sitting at a set table, drinking and having a snack.

Grandfather tells the master about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and about the Stone Flower.

Danila wants to look at the flower, the bride dissuades him.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Large-stones-gems.

An artistic fragment - Danila walks along the rocks.

The face of the Mistress of the copper mountain appears against the background of the rock.

Danila is looking for stones.

Danila is with another master in a hut, holding stones in his hands.

He examines the flower and says that he wants to carve such a bowl.

Large-malachite.

Danila works with a large stone.

The outlines of a bowl in the form of a flower appear, the young master polishes the surface, looks at the bowl.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

An artistic fragment - Danila near the malachite bowl, dissatisfied with his work.

The elderly master is asleep.

Danila breaks the bowl with a hammer.

The vase shatters into pieces.

A collage of gemstones.

Night, wind, Danila makes his way through the thicket of the forest.

The image of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain appears.

Danila asks her to show the Stone Flower.

The hostess invites him to her garden.

Large - the face of the bride Danila.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

An artistic fragment - Danila in a cave made of gems.

He sees a white stone flower blooming.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

A text appears on a piece of paper.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

An artistic fragment - Danila's bride Katya is looking for something near the rocks, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain appears against the background of the rock.

Katya asks her to return Danila.

An artistic fragment - Danila's fiancee Katya talks with the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

Danila appears.

The hostess sets a condition - either Danila returns to people, but forgets everything he has learned, or he stays forever.

Danila decides to return to the people.

The hostess lets him go and leaves him all the knowledge that he has received.

Shots with malachite vases, a casket, a jug.

A room with various objects made of malachite.

Frames with different cut stones.

Drawings on metal on the scabbards and on the blades of cold weapons.

Large-decorative box-hut on chicken legs with metal carving.

Objects made of metal (artistic casting) - an amphora jug, a candlestick, a female bust-portrait, an openwork bowl.

Panorama of the endless autumn forest.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Panorama - forest, rocks, stones.

Swamp.

A landscape with an autumn forest and the Ural Mountains visible in the distance.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Meadow, grass, wildflowers.

Photos-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

A dancing figure of a girl in a yellow-red outfit appears against the background of the photos.

Large-translucent crystals of an oblong shape.

An artistic fragment - at night people are sitting around a campfire in a clearing.

A father tells his little son about a dancing girl who shows where the gold is.

Suddenly, a dancing figure appears in the flames of the fire.

Large-owl.

The old man tells the boy that it was a fire-jumping gun and that it shows where the gold lies.

An artistic fragment - an old man at the campfire tells about a jump and about where to look for gold.

Large-owl.

Morning, treetops, sky.

Different shots of the autumn forest (top view).

Nature views, rocks, grass and wildflowers.

Men and a boy are in a clearing, arguing about where to dig.

They dig in different places.

They don't find anything.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

An artistic fragment - winter, a village, a boy is walking.

Children play snowballs.

The boy is walking along the path to Grandfather Yefim.

Types of winter forest.

The boy is walking through the forest, past the birches.

A snow storm begins, a blizzard sweeps.

The boy sees the little horse, runs after it.

The skipping horse is dancing.

The boy finds a shovel in the snow and makes a notch on a tree, next to which a horse was dancing.

Large-owl.

A boy in a hut, tells his grandfather how he met a horse.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

An artistic fragment - a grandfather and a boy consider a shovel.

A text appears on a piece of paper.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

There is a notebook and a pencil on the table.

Drawings of different types of people and notes appear on the pages of the notebook.

Photos-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Large-translucent crystals of an oblong shape.

An artistic fragment - men in a hut are sitting at a table, talking.

A woman and a man work at a mine.

They check whether there is gold.

The man in the pit is working with a hoe.

Finds a huge stone with a gold mine.

An artistic fragment - Alexey shows his wife a found stone with a gold mine.

He brings a stone to the innkeeper, wants to sell it.

The innkeeper cuts off a part of the stone with an axe, gives money to Alexey, and then gets him drunk.

Alexey constantly walks in the tavern, drinks all the money, and his wife gets sick and dies.

Alexey tells this story at the table in the hut to his comrades.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Large-pieces of gems.

An animated image of a runner with a human head appears on the stone.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

A gemstone, an animated image of an old woman appears on it, which turns into a girl with a basket of gems in her hands.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Animation - a mountain goat hits a rock with its hoof and a scattering of gems appears.

Photos-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Factory, steel shop, workflow.

Employees are sitting at the control panel.

Photos-portrait of P. P. Bazhov, Bazhov with Zhukov, etc.

Large-translucent crystals of an oblong shape.

A text appears on a piece of paper.

An artistic fragment is a view from a cliff from above to the forest and the Ural Mountains.

Men are walking across the field.

Then they arrange a halt.

One of them, Timokha, tells how he studied various crafts.

Timokha goes as an apprentice to an old master for coal mining.

The master tells him about zhivinka, and Timokha begins to work even better.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Frames with newspapers, superimposed on one another.

Photos-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Photo-P. P. Bazhov's office.

Against the background of the photo, there are shots with Akinfiy Demidov, with the old Mari deity.

Photo-portrait of P. P. Bazhov.

Large-translucent crystals of an oblong shape.

Monument to Bazhov.

A page from the book with a portrait of Bazhov, a quote and an autograph.

The cover of Bazhov's book "Ural Fairy Tales".

Credits with the authors of the film.