The film features footage of a family holiday involving camping and a trip to the mountains.
1) 00:00:00 – 00:09:43 — Stanislav hugs a woman wearing sunglasses. Footage taken during a car journey: mountain scenery and a car loaded with luggage in the foreground. Women with children are filling cups with water from a spring. Barbara and a woman are smiling at the camera. A woman is breaking branches by the campfire. Two ‘Moskvitch-408’ cars by the tents. Footage of a forest and a stream. Children with their mother in the car. Malgorzata by the stream. A woman by a tent. A landscape with a mountain pass. Barbara out for a walk in the forest. Stanislav drinks from the stream. Footage taken during a car journey: a road in a mountain village. A road sign reading ‘Zakarpattia Oblast’. Malgorzata and Krzysztof in a gazebo.
2) 00:09:44 – 00:09:45 — Malgorzata next to a snowman.
3) 00:09:46 – 00:09:56 — Malgorzata, wearing traditional dress, poses and curtsies to the camera inside a room next to a stove.
4) 00:09:57 – 00:15:10 — The road near the ‘Shehyni’ road sign. A woman poses from the driver’s seat of a car whilst it is stationary. A man walks along the roadside. A group of people are standing by the car. Children are eating on a blanket. A woman is smoothing out the blanket. A group of people are by the boot of the car; a lorry carrying logs drives past. A woman and a man are playing badminton. Two families with children are coming down from a mountain holiday resort. A man is twirling a little girl around in his arms. A car on a winding road. Two women are playing badminton.
5) 00:15:11 – 00:22:40 — Hrebeniv. A view of the village and the mountains. A woman is plaiting her daughter’s hair on the terrace of the house, whilst the boys are by the washbasin. Bathing and swimming in a mountain river. A ‘Moskvitch-2138’ car. A woman gets out of the car. Malgorzata and a little girl are playing with toys, whilst a woman sits nearby on a blanket. The family gets into the car and drives off.
6) 00:22:42 – 00:33:57 — Hrebeniv. Swallows on power lines. Shot from a window: family members approach the house, then sit on chairs in the yard. Grandmother Sofia is preparing food, with Krzysztof and Barbara beside her. Barbara and the woman are preparing lunch. Family members at the dining table: Barbara, her brother Waclaw, and Grandma Jadwiga. Malgorzata and a little girl are eating on a bench in the yard. “There was a little white washbasin hanging in the yard. Right next to it was a stream and a spring. There was no running water. There was nothing—just the electricity, nothing else. We spent the whole holiday there. We mostly stayed with Grandad and Grandma, whilst our parents came round at the weekends.” Commentary by Malgorzata Rushel. A man is playing badminton with Krzysztof, a little girl is walking nearby, and family members are sitting on chairs. A woman is setting out plates on the table. Grandmother Sofia is preparing food on a bench in the yard. Family members out for a walk. Malgorzata is standing next to a cow. Swimming in the river. Malgorzata is eating from a saucepan on the bed next to Barbara, who is reading a book. Mushrooms laid out on a bench. A woman with two men next to the mushrooms. Krzysztof is photographing the mushrooms. Sorting through the mushrooms. Malgorzata on the steps of the house. Grandmother is walking across the courtyard. “This is my favourite spot — sitting on the steps. I still love sitting on the steps. The toilet is in plain sight for everyone. You can see who’s coming and who’s going. When it’s free, when it’s occupied.” Commentary by Malgorzata Rushel. A walk through the woods. Picking blueberries. Near the cows. Barbara and Sofia in the courtyard of the house. A man is cutting the old man’s hair.
Tags:
tourism, tent, leisure, car, forest, river, mushrooms, snowman, woman, family, mountains, village