Parvenez Means Spring, 1976

Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria Creator: Luigi Perelli Modern Bulgaria has a very advanced agriculture, thanks to a program that links the research structures of university scientific centers with agricultural consortia and industry. The documentary gives an example of this through the description of the activity of one of the agro-industrial villages of the country, Parvenez, and of its historical, social and cultural reality, highlighting how the experimentation of cultivation techniques, the mechanization of agricultural work and a modern professional training of the workforce are at the origin of the successes achieved 01. Inq by Emilia Bratusceva, an elderly woman from Brestovitza, working with a wooden loom 02. Inq di Emilia together with her granddaughter Emilia 03. Grandma chops wood with an ax 04. Grandmother and granddaughter look after the pets and then peel the potatoes for dinner 05. Little Emilia leaves the house to do the shopping 06. Interni, Emilia buys the oil from the village shop 07. Inq di Emilia and other people lined up by the baker waiting for fresh bread to be baked 08. Emilia's parents, Julia and Alexandar, arrive home by motorbike 09. The two enter the house; Alexandar washes himself 10. Grandma prepares dinner and fills the plates 11. The family has dinner sitting at the table 12. The family at the breakfast table 13. Emilia's parents get on their motorcycles and go to work in the fields of the "Dimitrov" consortium, in the Plovdid district 14. Inq of Aleksandar on the tractor while working in the vineyard 15. Inq of Julia while pruning the vineyards with her colleagues 16. The women collect the beans and fruit 17. Inq of an irrigation pump 18. Inq various of the threshing of wheat 19. The women are picking tomatoes 20. Interiors, women at work in the shed for packing tomatoes 21. The workers of the consortium have lunch in the shed 22. Grazing cows in the countryside of Jagodovo 23. Stable, automatic milking of cattle 24. Interiors, consortium data collection center, the brigade leader compiles and delivers the data on the work of his group to an employee 25. The employees prepare the payslips using an electronic computer 26. Outdoors, plum harvesting with a special machine 27. Alexandar drives a wine grape harvesting machine 28. An agricultural aviation plane sprays the fungicide vineyards 29. The brigade leader visits his team 30. The workers wash their hands and feet in a basin 31. Meeting of the working group 32. Interni, the bachelor party of Vassili, a young mechanic 33. A bachelor friend shaves Vassili with an ax 34. An orchestra plays 35. Distribution of honey focaccia to guests 36. Outside, the women of the groom's family march in procession to the house of the bride Krassimira 37. PP of Krassimira in a wedding dress; a woman symbolically puts the veil over her face; another woman rubs her lipstick on her lips 38. Exchanges of women between the women of the two families 39. The women of the groom's family dance around Krassimira 40. Outside, Krassimira's mother dances with the groom's relatives 41. The procession of men led by Vassili heads towards the bride's house 42. A friend of Vassili's opens the door; young people offer gifts and money to the children of the house 43. The wedding procession parades through the streets of the town and heads towards the town hall 44. Interiors, a representative of the Brestovitza rural council celebrates the wedding 45. Inq of the wedding dinner; the exchange of gifts; the spouses kiss; outdoor dances 46. Inq various and pp of the inhabitants of Parvenez; a child in a wheelchair; a man cuts the green beans and puts them in the pot 47. Inq of old women crocheting sitting outdoors 48. Interior, tavern, inq of men playing cards and backgammon 49. Inq of women sitting under the hairdresser's helmets 50. A barber cuts a child's hair 51. A tailor tries a jacket on a customer 52. A girl tries on a dress and looks in the mirror in the back room of a tailor's shop 53. A seamstress sews by machine 54. A radio technician at work in his laboratory 55. A watchmaker at work in his workshop 56. Customers inside the village supermarket 57. Inq of the library 58. Boys play basketball and swim in an outdoor pool 59. Pan of the village 60. Exteriors and interiors of a restaurant crowded with people eating; boys dancing 61. Inq by bus 62. Workers enter the canned food factory 63. Interiors, workers at work in the different departments of the factory 64. Interior, outpatient clinic; a doctor visits a patient 65. A pediatrician visits a newborn 66. Esterni, funeral of a former communist partisan; the funeral procession, preceded by the symbols of the party, heads towards the Casa del Popolo 67. The body is transported by truck to the cemetery; friends and relatives remember the deceased then kiss the body before being buried 68. Parvenez's childhood garden courtyard exteriors; inq of children playing 69. Interior, children play and sing in a kindergarten class 70. The assistants help the children to eat in the canteen 71. The children prepare their beds and fall asleep 72. Outside, primary school students run towards the Brestovitza school 73. Interiors, students in biology, modeling and music lessons 74. Outdoors, Brestovitza pioneer camp, in the Rhodope Mountains; inq of young people playing on a lawn 75. The team leaders rally 76. Exteriors and interiors, "Kolarov" Agricultural College in Plovdid; students swim and row 77. Interiors, students in Marxism class 78. Students collect the vine leaves, take them to the laboratory and analyze them 79. Students examine some agricultural machinery 80. Students work with an electronic processor 81. External, various inq of Plovdid; people on city streets; factories, murals 82. Bus in the countryside 83. A work brigade, made up of students from a Plovdid middle school, gets off the bus and heads to the fields 84. A farmer explains to the children how to harvest vegetables19. A pair of middle-aged workers, sitting at the table, tells about their tiredness about their tiredness