Operation in the evacuation hospital (1941-1945)

A military surgeon wearing a sterile gauze mask performing an operation.

A drip tray sits on a stand.

Candles are on the surgical table for illumination, a nurse hands the surgeon an instrument, a swab is inserted into the wound, and the operation is in progress.

The scrub nurse continues to hand out instruments, and the doctor performs the operation by candlelight.

Extinguished candles are in an enamel tray, and surgical suture is next to the tray.

The nurse ties a sterile mask on the surgeon's face before beginning the operation.

The gloved surgeon gestures to direct the light onto the patient lying on the table and approaches the table.

An assistant hands the surgeon a scalpel.

Orderlies bring burning candles into the operating room, and the surgeon performs the operation by candlelight.

An orderly lights candles behind a sheet curtain and brings the burning candles into the operating room.

A surgical operation is performed by candlelight; an orderly holds the lid of a soldier's mess tin with candles inside.

A surgeon wearing a mask performs surgery.

A nurse holds a lit match to an IV drip, and the doctor monitors the medication level.

Nurses hold mess kit lids with lit candles in them, and the surgeon operates by candlelight.

The surgeon sterilizes his hands in a basin before the operation.

A nurse places a gauze bandage over the surgeon's face and ties it at the back of his head.

The face of an evacuation hospital operating room nurse, hidden by a gauze bandage.

A used swab falls into an enamel basin with the sign "Evacuation Hospital." Used swabs in the basin, a doctor places a removed bullet in the basin.

A nurse removes the mask from the face of a girl who has undergone surgery, checks her pupils, and pats her cheeks.

The girl's face, opening her eyes after waking up from anesthesia, smiles.

The face of a surgeon in a mask (gradually increasing in focus), the surgeon removes the mask, smiles.

A graduated IV drip on a stand, a car headlight illuminating the operating room.

A car headlight turns on to illuminate the operating room, the headlight goes out.

Candle lights reflect in the extinguished headlight, the headlight comes on again.

A car headlight illuminating the operating room (close-up).

A surgeon's hands in gloves before starting an operation.

A surgeon performing an operation, a nurse's hand with a filled syringe.

A surgeon's face covered in a gauze bandage during surgery.

The faces of the scrub nurse and surgeon in gauze bandages, a panoramic view of the IV. The scrub nurse's face in a gauze bandage (close-up).