The eighth day (1991)

Night, a panorama of silhouettes of people sitting on the shore.

On the other bank, a bonfire and people nearby are visible.

Children are running around the campfire, voices and music are heard.

Rural disco on the street - adults, children, youth dance.

A boy is sitting with his back turned.

Rural landscape, setting sun.

Procession - people are walking along the road with banners, crosses, icons.

Panorama of the clearing, standing tables with church utensils.

Women in headscarves clean the area next to the tables, put things in order, and so on.

View of the lectern (a stand for church books), a table with church utensils and a bouquet of flowers.

The boy is squatting, lighting church candles, a crowd of parishioners is standing behind him.

A boy with lighted candles walks past the parishioners.

View of the territory where the church sacrament takes place - the clergy carry a large wooden cross, plant it in the ground, where a granite slab is located.

A large-church book, the pages turn over from the wind.

Panorama of the office - TV works, window view, desk.

A gray-haired man with a beard is sitting at the table.

There is a b / w photo on the wall (a church, a river bank with boats), a panorama in the photo-portraits of people.

Large - hands put on the table large photographs of people, clergy, elderly peasants, peasant life, people at worship, etc.

Slow motion - swamp, duckweed, splash of water, bubbling.

Rural landscape - field, sheep grazing.

The camera moves across the field, approaches the ravine.

Night, electric lighting - view of the room with bells.

Panorama of ancient utensils, weapons, ammunition, etc.

Panorama of a shelf with samovars and kettles.

Panorama of the crucifixion, hanging lamps.

Top view - a man sitting at a wooden table.

A view of a pillar lying on the ground, a panorama of a man surrounded by children who is digging a hole for a pillar.

View of the road, panorama of the tree trunk.

Men and children set up a pole in the ground, lift it, and so on.

Panorama of the pillar, at its end - a metal cross.

Large - hands open the padlock on the door.

Panorama of the stairs.

Old church - view of the stone arch inside.

Panorama of the stone walls.

Large - hands open and remove the padlock, remove the chain.

A man opens the doors of the church, goes inside, crosses himself, approaches the lectern with a book - parishioners are standing nearby, a service is going on.

A boy at the lectern with a book, reads a prayer.

A large lamp swings, there is a fire inside it, there is smoke from incense.

The guy climbs the pole.

Rural landscape - view of a field, a hut, a tree. stormy sky with clouds.

Large - candilo in the church with burning candles.

Parishioners in the church - light candles, set them on candylo.

View of the room - church candles are burning, icons are visible on the wall.

A boy and girls in headscarves are standing against the wall, crossing themselves.

The priest reads a prayer, crosses himself.

Parishioners in the room where the service is held.

Says the woman in the beret.

View of the muddy water in the river.

Clothes are lying on the stone.

Women enter the water, children are washed.

Clothes are lying on the shore.

Forest, log bridges - panorama of the font.

Trees are reflected in the water.

A monk is walking along the catwalk with a bucket of water.

A monk walks through the forest.

A small river flows.

A large bare foot on a stone.

The silhouette of a monk walking through the forest.

Says the monk.

Blacksmith shop - children are standing in the doorway.

The fire is burning, blacksmiths are working in the forge, knocking on the anvil, and so on.

Different personnel - work in the forge, open fire, tools, craftsmen at work, metal forging, etc.

Children are standing in the doorway.

Night, a bonfire is burning on the riverbank, children are running around the campfire.

There is a group of people talking.

Village musicians play the accordion, accordion, tambourine, balalaika and rattles, a bonfire is burning in the clearing, people are resting, dancing.

Circular panorama of the domes of the church, old houses, the body of an abandoned white building (camera movement speeds up).

Large - the head of a statue of a man.

Close-up - panorama of the river.

View of the golden dome of the temple with a cross, blue sky.

Night, people at the pole - a boy climbs up the pole, tries to get to the box with the prize, removes the box and goes down.

The river is visible as a bonfire is burning on the other side and some kind of holiday is taking place.

Large - a pillar of light.

Rural landscape, dawn - a panorama of the brightening sky with clouds.