Budget Of A Soviet Family.
Budget Of A Soviet Family.
"An urban family and a farm family are questioned about their lives: wages, food budget, rent, maternity leave, reading, entertainment, vacations, family events. We get to see a marriage on a collective farm." Wedding. Communism. Soviet Union. Homelife. (01:00:00) Photographs of the Ukraine and Ukrainain families, narrator introduces film as "Budget of a Soviet Family" (01:00:49) City of Volk board of statistics building, various shots of interior where people do office work at desks, old giant computers spin their tape wheels, women enter data into standard computers (01:01:33) Outside shot of bus factory, inside shots of factory where we meet a family of workers - a dad, mom and two sons, and we see them inside the plant doing their respective jobs, surveying heavy machinery, shot of factory cafeteria shown where family all lunch (01:02:45) Footage of daughter-in-law of family and her baby, the family's apartment is shown, shots of a hospital where the daughter-in-law takes her baby (01:04:15) Segment on the family's expenditures, shots of spending activites: sports games, bookstore, grocery store, theatre, cafe (01:06:32) Segment on state covered expenses, shots of swimming pool, campground, lakeside vacation area, train trip, visit to historical site - shots of an old wooden church and a windmill (01:08:29) Guitarist plays and sings for workers on a break at the bus factory (01:09:02) Shots of family album and one of the children's birthday party in the apartment (01:09:46) Introduction to second family of the film, the rural family - shots of large harvesting tractors at work in the fields, shots of large cattle farm, both outside and inside, shot of interior of family's home and mother with two daughters (01:11:16) Segment on the school the daughters attend, footage of the kids at work in a greenhouse and garden, footage of kids cleaning up the school - washing windows (01:12:10) Brief segment on a pioneer summer camp for the kids, shots of kids arriving at camp in buses, playing ping-pong and collecting flowers, singing in unison around a bon-fire (01:12:47) Footage of the family's housing - a cottage - and other larger housing structures in the area (01:14:00) Segment on free resources available to the family - a library, a local club, traditional dance lessons (01:15:02) Shots of kids going to school on the farm bus (01:15:35) The family at the lake playing ball and bird watching (01:16:14) The harvest brings weddings, footage of wedding ceremony and procession, followed by aerial pan of town (01:17:24) Credits role