Anatoliy Semyonov

A film about Alexander Ulyanov (1866-1887), the organizer and leader of the “Terrorist Faction” of the Narodnaya Volya party, the older brother of Vladimir Lenin, participant in the preparation of the assassination attempt (03/01/1887) on Alexander III. Alexander Ulyanov was executed by hanging in the Shlisselburg fortress.

In the second film, the author tells about the struggle of blacks for the right to feel equal with all US citizens. Commentary of the mayor of Cairo, one of the cities in the American South, about the suppression of the rebels, about the most brutal methods of fighting African American protesters. Jesse Jackson's speech. Jesse Jackson's commentary on the Black Rights Organization. Comments by female residents of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, on the degree of mental development of whites and blacks. A story about the Ku Klux Klan, about Robert Shelton - the head of the Ku Klux Klan. Speech by American singer and dramatic actor Paul Robson, his commentary. Shots of the Olympics, victories in the competition of black athletes. About reprisals against Negro organizations. The widow of the American writer Ernest Hemingway Mary and the American scientist Henry Winston speak out about support for African Americans and the fight against racism.

Walk through one of the oldest cities in the United States - Philadelphia. "The City of Brotherly Love" or - Philly, as the Americans affectionately call it, is proud of its historical sights, because it was here that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed.

New York is the largest city in the modern world. In greater New York, together with the suburbs, in the 1970s, sixteen million people live, and in the city itself there are about ten million. Americans speak differently about New York - some argue that New York is not America, others, on the contrary, are convinced that this is the most American of all American cities. Apparently both are right...

Boston. In those distant times, when virgin forests were still rustling on the site of today's Washington, when proud and free Indians gathered at the wigwams, on the site of which New York and Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco are now piled, a settlement already existed here on the Atlantic coast of America. called by the people who founded it - Boston.

In this episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin travels through one of the most famous and visited cities in the United States, the "pearl of the West Coast" - San Francisco. Many centuries ago, the inhabitants of ancient Hellas said that the one who was not in Athens was a blockhead, and the one who visited there and did not admire the city was a donkey, and the one who voluntarily left it was a camel. This is how Americans feel about San Francisco. Indeed, the city is very beautiful, steeply descending to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, it makes you admire yourself...