Kind of a nice movie, 42 minutes long, about teenage girls living in a dormitory and working in a textile factory. We see them having fun, they dance together, take showers together, have a pillow fight in their pajamas. Boys throw rocks at their windows. One girl is having problems. She keeps walking away from her job, she was smoking in the dorm and she ate another girl's food package. There's a meeting to decide what to do.
There's this thing in American film commentary where anything produced in a Communist country has to be interpreted as secretly anti-Communist. I watched the movie on FilmStruck and the description refers to "rigid rules" and "authoritative officials" at the cotton mill, but they really seem pretty nice about things, especially for 1962. Those girls wouldn't have lasted a week at Wal-Mart.
It's not a documentary but there's no conventional plot either. It's seen through the eyes of a new girl. We hear her thoughts narrating the movie and other characters look into the camera as they address her.
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