A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Based on the letters of Anatoly Cherepashchuk. A schoolboy from the city of Syzran writes letters to a scientist about his attempts to assemble a reflector telescope. He asks for the lenses for his observation device and in the following letters tells how the work is going. One day, with the help of his telescope, a young scientist discovers a new comet.
A portrait film dedicated to the muralists Leonid Polishchuk and Svetlana Shcherbinina. They talk about their main works: the stained glass window “Hydronauts” at the Institute of Oceanology and the mosaic “The Healing of a Man” on the building of the library of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute.
