23/08/22 National Flag Day in Russia, Saint-Petersburg. KINO-CHRONICLE PAPIERFILM

August 22, 2023 Concert Raising the flag 00:05 The beginning. ELS of the Admiralty building in St. Petersburg, Russia. Cars are passing by. Across the road there is the Admiralty fountain and people passing by 00:11 LS. A closer shot onto the fountain and people around it. The monument to N. Gogol is visible through the jets of water 00:34 MLS of the man leading the dancing ground of people. He is holding the hand of a woman - his dancing partner, and speaking into a headset microphone. He has the inscripion ’Санкт-Петербург’ (St. Peterburg) on the back of his shirt 00:53 MLS of two women and a man dressed up in 19th century costumes. In the background a man is carrying the flag of Russian Federation attached to a large stick 00:59 MLS of a group of people within the crowd. A woman, wearing glasses, is holding a small flag of Russian Federation. She is talking to a boy, wearing a fox mask on his head 01:08 A MLS of a row of seated people. All of them have small flags of the Russian Federation in their hands. The song by A. Ermolov ’Russia, I’m dreaming of you’ is heard 01:23 MLS of a group of girls dressed up in red dresses with white sleaves. They are talking and laughing when the hymn of the Russian Federation starts playing 01:50 LS onto a group of girls dansing on the stage, dressed up as white angels with wings. The voice is heard from the loudspeakers: ’The Day of Russia is the day of the greatness of our state...’ 02:37 MLS of the stage. Three young women are performing, holding large flags of the Russian Federation on sticks. A man, wearing a suit and holding a microphone, comes into the shot and starts singing the song ’The Flag of my State’ 03:38 ELS onto the stage. A man, wearing a suit is singing into the microphone onstage. In front of the stage a group of people is performing with the blue, white and red umbrellas, creating a pattern of the flag of the Russian Federation 04:06 ELS onto the audience of the event, standing and sitting down. The Admiralty fountain is visible behind them 04:15 ELS onto the audience of the event. Two man and a woman, wearing military uniform march into the frame 04:35 MLS. A girl (Elena Ptsyreva) in a costume of a youth soldier and a bow on her head is standing next to pole with a big flag of the Russian Federation on it. Camera zooms in, showing the girl in a MS. 04:52 A low angle MLS. A boy and a man in a red sport costume are raising the flag of Russian Federation to the sound of the hymn of the Russian Federation the sun is shining through the flag 05:31 A MS of the stage with the projection of V. Putin saying: ’ The State flag symbolises the loyalty to our traditional values...’ 05:54 MLS of two young women chatting and smiling, whilst holding big poles with the flag of Russian Federation. The voice of V. Putin is heard 06:35 A MS onto the front row of the audience sitting down, holding little flags of Russian Federation in their hand 06:53 ELS of the stage again the Admiralty building of St. Petersburg. Two young women are waving the poles with flags of the Russian Federation. There is a countdown projected on the stage, and people on the stage are saying into the microphone: ’four, three, two, one’ 07:04 LS of a group of bikers in helmets, each of them having a young woman, waving a flag of the Russian Federation, in their backseat. They take off and drive out of the frame 07:12 MLS of two women in police uniform standing onstage. A voice is heard: ’...to obtain a passport of a citizen of Russia is invited...’ 07:18 MLS of a young woman standing with a passport in her hands, the two women in police uniform standing onstage next to her. A boy comes onto the stage and the policewomen hand him a passport. He shakes hands with Overchuck and Astakhova, recieves a gift bag and leaves the stage. A third boys comes onto the stage and recieves the passport 07:51 MLS of a woman squatting next to a baby carriage, with a girl fiddling with a ribbon in the colors of the flag of the Russian Federation in her hands. The woman is smiling 07:55 CU of the little girl in the carriage fiddling with a ribbon in the colors of the flag of the Russian Federation 08:08 MLS onto two girls wearing the angel costumes, standing in the middle of the crowd 08:23 CU of a boy wearing a cap and eating a huge bun, whilst seating on a bench. Camera tilts down to show his feet hanging above a puddle 08:45 MLS of a group of women wearing jeans and white t-shirts, dancing with white umbrellas in their hands 09:12 ELS of an empty pedestrian crossing with a stand with a digital projection of a flag of Russian Federation on the other side of the road. A digital cat appears from under the projected flag 09:22 ELS of the Aleksander Garden against the Mariinsky Palace. People are sitting on a bench 09:41 ELS of a woman standing with a jacket slung over her arm, looking at the digital screen showing the flag of the Russian Federation #russian #spb