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- SummaryThis colour documentary film reports about the "Central Youth Object Erdagstrasse" near Gorodenka in the Ukraine in 1983. It mainly reports about one of the most difficult projects, the crossing of the Dniester, and the work of the tractor drivers and pipe layers.
- Shotlist0:00:00 View (from above) of a river between the mountains (half total). Swing onto the cleared aisle of the mountain in the foreground (half total). Swing (from below) over a rocky slope (half total). Picture taken on the river Dnjestr with view to the back (half total). Legend insertion "120 route days". Driving picture on the river (half total). View (from above) of a red welder's house on the steel pipes of the future natural gas pipeline (half total). Swing from the welder's house onto the stored steel pipes in the snow (half total). Activist from the GDR writes with white color on a steel tube "Prosit New Year ! Target reached - 40th section of three in "Gorodjenka" (half total). Colleagues go with drinks and parcels in the darkness to the canteen building (half total). Decorated canteen hall full of track builders (half total). Individual conversations among colleagues (semi-close). Russians sing a song with accordion accompaniment (half near) (original sound) on a horse-drawn carriage in front of the canteen. Man disguised as "Father Frost" sings along (half near). The route builders applaud enthusiastically (semi-close) (original sound). Father Frost and those around him shout out loud "Friendship, Drushba" (half near) (original sound). Father Frost embraces a woman (half near). Panoramic view over the celebrating route builders in the canteen hall (half total). At midnight you have a toast and raise the glasses (half total) (original sound). Men raise their arms and cheer (half near). 0:01:41 View of the spinning wheels of a heavy tractor in the snow (semi-near). Four-axle tractor without loading from the side (half-total). Ride in the driver's cab, at the wheel Achim (half near). View to the front from the driver's cab onto the icy and snow-covered paths (half total). Arrival of the tractor with the number "7" in the current construction phase (half-total). Colleagues instruct Achim (semi-near). Achim and his colleagues agree on the next steps on the construction site (semi-near) (original sound) "...something still has to be done here... where the creek is we have to go in, something has to be taken out...". Swing over the route workers (semi-near). 0:02:55 A drilling rig drives supports 16 metres deep into the ground on the northern bank of the river Dnjestr (semi-total). Swing over the river to the drilling rig in the icy ground (half total). View of the drilling head of the machine (semi-near). View of the snowy slopes (half total). Forest workers burn branches on the forest aisles to make room for the pipes (half total). Swing over the container village of the route builders (half total). Swing over the canteen and the food counter in the hall to the route builders (half total). Different attitudes of eating workers (semi-near). Sign on a canteen table "ZWP Ionising radiation, do not stand unnecessarily close to" (semi-near). On almost every table there is a typical part of the occupations of the workers present (semi-near). Men of the pipe transport comb their way to the photo (half near) (original sound). Panning over the men of the pipe transport during the group recording (semi-total) (original sound). 0:03:47 Steel tube is lifted by a tractor (semi-total). Driver pushes the tube in the right direction at the crane hook (half near). Achim in the driver's cab of his tractor pushes his curtain right (semi-near) (original sound) "...this is my workplace.... Great, wa". Achim in the driver's cab with his difficult shunting work with the long tubes (half near) (original sound). View into the rear view mirror of the tractor, the steel tube can be seen on the semi-total trailer. Drive through a muddy piece of forest (half total). View (from below) of the heavy tractor with steel tube (half total). Achim is glad to have mastered the difficult curve in the rough terrain (half near) (original sound) "...ha, packed...it is enough, my hands still tremble...". Achim arrives at the loading point at the river Dnjestr (half total). 0:05:26 View of the river Dnjestr with the driven in reinforced concrete columns (half total). View of the driven steel pipes and a concrete casting machine (half total). Drillers and column builders row their boats across the river with ice floes (half total). Workers connect 2 boats with each other (semi-near). Worker at the cigarette break (half near) (original sound) "A line speed that many did not expect... that's not okay...well, there's a lot more coming, pipes on it and so on and so on,...". Driving picture: Inhabitants of the area observe the transport of the long tubes on their road (half total). Arrival of a tractor with the number "1" and two steel pipes in front of a house (half total). Bulldozer with shield "Schubsi" pulls at the axis of the trailer to master the tight curve with the tubes (half-total). Children behind garden fences are watching the hustle and bustle of the track builders (half near). A passenger car travels under the tubes (half total). Tractors, dung carts and farmers on the road next to the track (half total). 0:06:53 Laying of steel pipes in mountainous terrain (total). Tractors torture themselves after the rain through the muddy terrain (half total). View of the tyres of the rear axle of the tractor in the mud (semi-near). Workers go into the construction wagon, at the door there is a sign "Hacken abgetreten" (walking down the heel). Women with thick jackets and rubber boots go on the softened ways (half total) (original sound) "Ih..ich fall ja rein...". Worker paints with white paint on a steel tube "Congratulations to our women...600th section" (O-tone). Workers have their fun with it (semi-near) (original sound). View into the inside of a tube, a worker smoothes the welding seams with a flex (half total). Flames and sparks during the nightly welding processes on the tubes (half total). Electric welders join 2 tubes together from the outside (semi-near). Worker looks at the clock (half near). 0:07:42 View of the river Dnjestr during the snowmelt (half total). Backward zoom from the aborted pontoon raft of the construction site and the driven steel pipes in the river bed onto the river Dnjestr (half total), which has risen by 4 meters. Captain of a push boat at the helm (half near). The pontoon raft is tied to the push boat (semi-total). Russian pontoon raft boatman reports (half near) (O-Ton) "Your people helped us for the first time, we had to save our ships several times, a mountain stream, it is very treacherous...". Pontoon raft transports workers to the tubes in the river bed (semi-total). The route builder climbs the steel pipe up to the concrete platform (half total). View (from below) of the applauding workers on the platform (half total). View over the base camp full of steel tubes (half total). Line builders decorate a leafless tree with colorful Easter eggs (semi-near). The tractor with the number "9" is approaching the camera (half near). Achim and his colleagues present each other with small Easter gifts in the evening light (half near) (original sound) "That's great...fine, fine, fine". Steel tube with inscription "R 13-B 6 Ostern 1983" (half near). 0:09:04 View of a column of construction vehicles and tractors (semi-total). Arrival of the column on a new construction site (half total). The welders arrive and go to the workplace (half total). Cameraman walks with the welders through the mountainous terrain (half total). Welder sits at the river Dnjestr (half near) colleague calls from the off (O-tone) "There you wash the legs first of all, wa". Happy and joking group of welders at the river (half near) (original sound). Colleague holds a welder in the torrential flow (half total). Pan to the photographing and joking colleagues on the shore (half near) (original sound). Backward zoom of a steel construction for the crossing of the river tubes to the construction site and the river Dnjestr (half total). Achim returns to base camp with his moving car (half total). New tractors arrive (half total). Achim jumps out of the car and greets his colleagues (half total) (original sound) "Well then it can start, man, man, man, finally 4 weeks vacation...". Achim and his colleagues talk and joke (half near) (original sound). Small daisy is infected Achim (semi-near). 0:10:55 Zoom from a Russian place-name sign to the one arriving train car with steel tubes (semi-total). View (from above) of a high valley bridge with tractors and construction vehicles (half total). Backlit tractor pulls tubes up a mountain (half total). Drive photo: Achim at the wheel of his tractor (half near) looks at the village in the valley (half total). Driving shot over country and village roads (half total). Various settings of difficult driving manoeuvres of the tractor on mountains, in villages, on narrow curves and on dusty roads (semi-total). 0:11:50 Group of men goes through wooded area in sunshine (half total). Backwards zoom: Men stop at the north slope and look into the valley with the Dnjestr (half total). Swing across the river to a destroyed bridge and remains of concrete pedestals in the riverbed (half total). Review in black and white: Soviet partisans storm a mountain (half total). Swing over partisans in their trenches (semi-near). Women working on roads (half total). Comment: "The Dnjestr remains a main battle line in all war years. German soldier kicks in the door of a village house (half near). Stork in its nest on a thatched roof (half total). Memorial (half total). Woman standing praying on rubble (half total). Desperate women weep for their fallen (half near). Bridge blasting (semi-total). Review. 0:12:55 Swing from the remainder of the bridge over the Dnjestr (half total). Memorial stone for Lieutenant Birkow, who blew up the bridge in June 1942 and died in the process. View (from above) of the arriving tractors with tubes (half total). Children in a village wave to the drivers from the roadside (half total). Achim looks to the children from the driver's cab (half near). Arrival of a tractor convoy with 2 steel tubes each at the current section (half total). Tubes are unloaded with the crane from the tractor (semi-total). Worker gives hand signal to crane operator (half near). Comment; "And then it happens, 70 tons of pipe push the machine to the steep slope, braking, no reaction of the tractor in the muddy ground...". View of the heavy load rolling away on the mountain (half total). Workers run desperately around and the train driver jumps out of the cab of the tractor (half total). Shortly before the steep slope, the tractor with the steel tubes hangs across the road, the workers run to the site (half total). Swivel (from below) onto the overhanging tractor on the steep slope (half-total) (original sound). Line builder and driver discuss the possibilities of a salvage (half-total) (original sound) "...ne. that does not have to be...well reacted...". Panning over the faces of the discussing men (half near) (original sound). View (from below) of the recovery of the tractor and the steel pipes on the steep slope (half total). 0:14:30 Backwards zoom of the storks on a meadow on the passing train car with trailer (half total). View (from above with pan) over a base camp of the track builders in the evening light (total). Swing from the dripping ceiling in the lounge of the route builders to the men at the table (half total). Comment: "The boys have broken the track record these days, even that of the Drushba track, but that evening their mood is not as usual...". Men discuss the accident with beer and cigarettes at the tables (half near) (original sound) "...that was the mud...there was no resistance between tires and...the heavy technique we have here...I also drove into a ditch...". Worker frees the wooden benches outside from water (semi-near). Workers sit in front of the caravans at wooden tables (half total). Comment: "...the guys from the pipe transport are thinking about becoming a brigade...with reputation and name...". Workers discuss at the table (half near) (O-tone) "...I have observed him in the last 6 weeks and I am of the opinion he has what it takes, why shouldn't we older give priority to the youth...". Another worker (nah) (O-Ton) "Someone must have his hat on, and above all it is the case that once in the morning one does not stand for hours in front of the master's car, every examiner gets a...first of all said, listen...". Achim's face (nah) (O-Ton) "...this is the first time I should do BKD, you try hard anyway...we all do our work like everybody else...". 0:16:30 View over the river Dnjestr to the driving of the steel construction over the columns in the riverbed at dawn (half total). Workers in front of the line builders' shelters (half total). Welders in a boat repel from the bank of the Dnjestr (half total). View of the floating steel tubes which are laid over the Dnjestr (half total). Labeled steel pipe "Peace and socialism...1. FDJ peace object..." (half total). Sticker "Erdgastrasse FDJ - Zentrales Jugendobjekt" is stuck on the steel pipe (near). Comment: "For the first time we will try what has been prepared by so many in the past 100 days, internationally it is usual to cross such rivers with suspension or beam bridges, if their technology, to pull the 250 meter long pipe over the Dnjestr, succeeds, they need only a fifth of the time". Workers communicate with each other during tube jacking using radiotelephones (semi-near) (original sound). Worker controls the machine with the steel winch (semi-near). View of the slowly advancing steel tube on steel cables (half total). Steel tube glides forward over laterally mounted support rollers (semi-near). View of a column in the river over which the long steel tube glides (half total). Zoom on the steel construction connecting the two columns in the river over which the steel pipe is driven (semi-total). Zoom on the Russian flag and a FDJ flag on the column (half total). Workers lash the steel cables to the tubes (semi-near). Comment: "1/2 meter per minute 270 tons are pulled across the river...in only 5 days, international top performance". View from above of the workers on the column in the river (half total). Driving photo on the Dnjestr with view to the steel tube over the river (half total with pan from the left to the right bank side (half total). 0:17:44 View (from above) of a difficult route through the forest with a steep slope (half total). View (from above) of the finished tube crossing of the Dnjestr (half total). Local women in national costumes at the celebration (half near). A band of the FDJ plays on (semitotal) (original sound). Russian men with trumpets play on (semitotal) (original sound). Workers place the last steel connecting ring on the tubes (semi-total). Comment: "After 120 days, they all joined together, each on their own special route, on the eve of 1 May 1983 they could hand over this section of the line, two and a half months ahead of schedule". Laughing face of Achim (near). Satisfied faces of the line builders (semi-near). Guests of honour and route builders on the grandstand with inscription "Freundschaft - Friedensaufgebot der FDJ" (Halbtotal). 0:18:20 Swing over playing children at the Dnjestr, in the background the steel tube over the river (half total). Route builders come back to their dormitories (half total). View of a group of men between clotheslines and caravan (half total). View (from above with pan) of the workers' shelters and a temporary swimming pool (half total). Men's leisure activities between caravans and houses (half total). Man at an open grill in front of steel pipes (half total). Grilled sheep is cut up (half near). Social get-together between the caravans in sun and rain (half total). 0:19:11 Panoramic view of the wooded mountain and the steeply sloping route up to the crossing of the Dnjestr (half total). Blasting takes place in the forest area (zoom, half-total). Bulldozers move soil after blasting on the steep part of the route (half total). View (from above) of the pipe trench excavator and pipe cranes (half total). Pipe cranes during a pipe transport in S-shape (semi-total). Pipe-laying worker in the earth above fields (half total). Steel pipe with inscription "RG greets RIV...hurry up ! RG is waiting at Dnjestr!" (Backward zoom). Zoom in on the underground work of the welded pipes (semi-total). The road builders bathe in the Dnjestr (half total). Train driver cleans his machine with high pressure slaughter (half total). Achim with water hose in hand (half near). Men clean their train cars while others bathe in the background in the Dnjestr (half total). Comment: "The pipe transport moves on to the next section...I wish you a good trip guys". Train drivers spray themselves with the hoses (half total). Water jet hits a towing vehicle sign "40 km" and "ENDE KOHEC" (semi-near). Fade in "120 route days. A documentary film about the Central Youth Object Erdgastrasse. Book Kurt Casper and Irina Gregor. Production Manager Rudi Lösche. Sound Peter Pflughaupt, Ernst-Reinhard Helmecke. Editor Kurt Casper. Editing Siglinde Abraham. Camera Harald Klix. Mixed tone Hans-Jürgen Mittag. Directed by Irina Gregor. A film from the DEFA Studios for Documentary Films DDR 1983. 0:20:50 END
- TagsGorodenka; Dnjestr; Drushba; Friendship; Ukraine; Natural gas; RIV; Route; Easter; New Year; Father Frost; Partisans; Second World War; Accident; Steel pipe; RG; Stork; Brigade; Free German Youth (FDJ); Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (UdSSR); Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (RGW); Pipeline; Ural; Welder; Tubular crane; Pipe trench excavator; Blasting; Partisans; Ural Mountains; Ural Mountains; Tubular crane; Tubular excavator
- Decade1980
- Production Year1983
- Release date11 Nov 1983
- GenreDocumentary
- Country of Production
- Actors
- Personalities
- DirectorIrina Gregor (auch: Veldre, Madanz, Lepke)
- Producer
- CameraHarald Klix
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A0040WS