A man operates a small motorized tiller in a backyard garden in Moscow, Russia, in 1975. Shot on 8mm film, the grainy black-and-white footage captures the man pushing the machine through loose soil, turning the earth in a patch bordered by a wooden fence. The handheld camera follows his movement, emphasizing the manual labor of home gardening during the Soviet era. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into everyday life and agricultural practices of the 1970s.
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