Soviet soldier (2016)

Chronicle: Planes fly in the sky.

The plane rolls along the ground.

On the ground, the plane is met by a military orchestra and a delegation of the country's leadership.

Flags of the USSR and France.

A representative of France at the microphones.

Poland, sky (transition).

Monument to a man in military uniform near a high-rise building.

Monument to a man in military uniform.

Poland.

Monument to a man in military uniform against the backdrop of a multi-story building.

Inscription on the monument in Russian and French.

General Charles de Gaulle, President of the French Republic.

Rocky mountains, sand, and dried grass.

CAPTION: SOVIET SOLDIER. Rocky mountains.

Poland.

Mountains, plain, foothill village in the distance, mountain vegetation.

Monuments to men in military uniform stand in the alley.

B/W photo of people at a table, man highlighted in the photo.

Color.

An elderly man sitting on a bed in a room.

Poland.

Beds.

Mountain village.

Narrow street.

An elderly woman walks with a cane.

An older man in a short-sleeved checkered shirt walks on the street.

A black-and-white photo of a young man and an older man in an astrakhan hat (zoom in on their faces).

A black-and-white chronicle of young men in cadet uniforms sitting at their desks in a school.

A teacher.

A black-and-white photo of a young man in military uniform.

A black-and-white chronicle of men in military uniform walking along a hill.

Infantry soldiers walk.

A black-and-white chronicle of men in military uniform.

A man looks through binoculars, barbed wire on poles.

A cannon fires, explosions on the ground.

A black-and-white chronicle of young men in military uniform sitting at their desks in a room.

A teacher.

A black-and-white chronicle of men with parachutes on their backs walking into an airplane cabin.

An airplane propeller working.

Men jumping from an airplane.

Parachutists in the sky.

A parachutist landing.

A black-and-white chronicle of German soldiers near houses.

German soldiers running across a field.

Black and white footage of German soldiers taking a smoke break.

German soldiers leading captured men in civilian clothes.

Panorama of the faces of captured men.

Black and white footage of barracks through barbed wire.

Black and white footage of wooden two-tiered bunks.

A sick man lies on the bottom tier.

An emaciated and sick man lies on the bunks.

Black and white footage of a female nurse and a male nurse carrying clothes on a stretcher and throwing them into a common pile.

A pile of men's clothing lies on the ground.

Black and white footage of German officers and soldiers through barbed wire.

Black and white footage of Panorama of city streets from above.

Buildings, an alley, people, trees.

Black and white footage of a man being carried out of a barracks on a stretcher.

A man with closed eyes lies on a stretcher.

Black and white footage of exhausted men in civilian clothes walking in a chain into a barracks.

Black and white photo of a man in a military uniform.

Photo of three men lying on their bellies on the ground b/w photo of a group of men in military uniform b/w photo of men in military uniform b/w photo of a man in military uniform b/w photo of a group of men b/w photo of a group of men in military uniform with weapons and a gun b/w chronicle of people in French military uniform Men in civilian clothes b/w photo of a man in military uniform (run over) Color An elderly man in a checkered shirt is driving a car along a city street A stone-paved road.

A car wheel.

A man walks along the side of the street A rosehip bush with berries (out of focus) Houses of a mountain village Mountains.

Plain.

Mountain vegetation b/w chronicle Men in military uniform lying down and watching through binoculars b/w photo Men with weapons in their hands are lying in the snow. b/w photo Men in military uniform near a car b/w chronicle Soldiers fire weapons from cover b/w chronicle Houses.

City street.

Nazi symbols on the building.

Black and white footage of Nazis near a cannon.

Barbed wire.

City street.

People.

Building explosion.

Black and white photo of people in military uniform.

Black and white footage of men placing an explosive device under a railroad track.

A train is moving.

Men press themselves to the ground.

Explosion of the bridge on which the train was located.

Explosion of a house.

Explosion on the ground, flying clumps of earth, trees.

Black and white photo of men in military uniform.

Black and white footage of German officers walking down the street.

A German officer lists the carriages of a train with people.

A girl with a headscarf on her head.

Soldiers close the carriages.

Black and white footage of a train moving.

A man plants an explosive device.

Men in civilian clothes fire a cannon.

A dead man.

Black and white footage of a forest.

A field.

German soldiers with machine guns are walking.

A German officer drinks from a glass.

Black and white footage.

German officers stroll with a girl along a city street.

Black and white footage.

A street in a small town.

Trees.

A man cranks and starts a mechanism.

Trolleys (black and white footage) fill a wheelbarrow with soil.

A man pushes a wheelbarrow with soil and dumps it on the ground.

Men pass shovels.

Black and white photo of two men in military uniform.

Black and white photo of a large group of men near a truck.

Black and white photo of leaflets.

Black and white footage.

Two flags flutter on a ship.

Sailors on deck.

General Charles de Gaulle.

Black and white photo of a man in military uniform.

Black and white photo of two young men.

Black and white photo of awards (fades to color, then to black and white).

Black and white footage.

A tall man and a man with glasses exit a train car.

They greet the men waiting for them on the platform.

They go down the stairs.

The men get into a car and drive along a city street.

A tall man boards a USSR plane.

Black and white footage of the plane's propellers working.

The plane is preparing for takeoff.

Black and white footage of the Kremlin.

Two soldiers on horses.

Poland, the Kremlin embankment.

Black and white footage of Stalin.

A delegation from different countries passes by and sits down at the table.

Documents are being signed.

Black and white footage of the flags of the USSR's allied countries waving.

Stalin is sitting at the table with the military.

Round table.

Flags of the allied countries.

Stalin with the military at the table.

Photographers and photojournalists.

Black and white footage of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at a conference.

Black and white footage of Stalin speaking from the podium.

General de Gaulle communicating with men.

Black and white footage of people running on a city street (view from above).

A man with a canister.

Soldiers with weapons in their hands carefully inspect the empty city streets.

Men shoot from a building window.

Men run down the street.

Black and white footage of men in military uniform firing weapons.

Men are running.

Tanks are driving down the street.

Tanks explode and catch fire.

Black smoke billows.

People in civilian clothes hide behind ledges and columns.

Black and white footage of men leading a wounded man.

Men on a city street.

A group of men take pictures near a tank.

Black and white footage of a broken portrait of Hitler lying on the ground, bottles, and a Nazi swastika.

Black and white footage of two men in military uniform walking down the street.

They lead arrested German soldiers.

German army officers with their hands raised.

Black and white footage of men in civilian clothes walking down a city street with smiles on their faces.

Girls climb onto a tank.

General jubilation.

Black and white footage of tanks, equipment, and people walking along the Champs-Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe.

Festively dressed people on a city street.

Military personnel marching in formation down a city street.

Black and white footage of joyful people on a city street.

People joyfully greet the liberating soldiers.

Black and white footage of military personnel walking down a city street.

The country's leadership.

People rejoicing.

Black and white chronicle of the Eiffel Tower.

Lots of people around (view from above).

A plane in the sky.

The Arc de Triomphe.

Military equipment.

A man of an older age in a checkered shirt on the street.

Black and white photo of people standing and sitting in front of a wall with a flag hanging on it.

Black and white photo of men sitting on the grass.

Black and white photo of a gray-haired man in a military uniform sitting at a table with other people.

Black and white photo of a gray-haired man in a military uniform sitting at a table with other people.

Black and white photo of veterans with medals and orders on their chests.

Black and white photo of a young man in a military coat.

Black and white photo of a gray-haired man with orders and medals on his chest and a man in a white sweater.

A gray-haired man surrounded by people, a b/w photo of a young man and a young woman, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man and women in white coats holding cameras, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man surrounded by women, a gray-haired man surrounded by children, a color chronicle, a gray-haired man in a white shirt walks across a field.

He touches the earth with his hands, breaks a clod, a color chronicle, a man walks across a field behind a tractor pulling a plow, a color chronicle, a gray-haired man hugging an animal, a b/w photo of a large number of people in a room sitting and standing (zoom in), a b/w photo of a large number of people against a background of nature, a b/w chronicle, a panorama of a city from above, a b/w photo of a man in a military uniform, a b/w photo of men in military uniform sitting at a table, a b/w man in a checkered shirt walks into a room (transition to color, then transition to b/w), a b/w photo of a gloomy house with a shadow from barbed wire.

A small dark room.

B/W chronicle.

From the window you can see the swaying trees with leaves.

B/W chronicle.

Prison dishes in a cell.

A dim light bulb.

A prison corridor.

A door with a peephole.

An eye in the peephole.

B/W chronicle.

A key is inserted into the keyhole of the prison door lock.

The door opens.

B/W chronicle.

Water.

It's raining.

Splashes from transport.

Drops on the glass.

Drops on the rod.

Streaks on the water from the rain.

Color.

Narrow street of a mountain village.

Color.

Roofs of houses in a mountain village, trees.

Color.

Mountains.

In the foothills, there are villages.

Color.

A man in a checkered shirt on the street.

B/W photo of two men examining ears of grain in a field.

B/W chronicle.

A man breaks a piece of earth with his hands.

B/W chronicle.

A gray-haired man walks across a field.

A man unloads sacks from the back of a truck.

Equipment is parked nearby.

A man holding wheat seeds.

A black-and-white photo of two men looking at a tree branch.

A black-and-white newsreel of people descending the steps of an airplane.

Children carrying flowers run toward the steps.

Brezhnev is greeted by high-ranking officials.

A black-and-white photo of a man and two women.

A black-and-white photo of a gray-haired man in a field.

A black-and-white photo of a gray-haired man sitting on the steps of a house.

A woman holding a child.

A black-and-white photo of documents.

A black-and-white photo of an elderly man and woman.

A house courtyard.

A color photo of French crosses and awards.

A pomegranate on a tree.

A house, courtyard, and patterned fence.

A man in a short-sleeved checkered shirt on the street.

A color newsreel of Soviet people greeting French President Charles de Gaulle.

A black-and-white newsreel of the party leadership of the two countries at the table.

Reporters.

Then there was a reception in the Kremlin.

De Gaulle.

A black-and-white newsreel of people on the street greeting men who come out onto the balcony of a house.

De Gaulle at the microphones.

People on the street waving French flags.

B/W chronicle, opening credits for the news of the day program, #26 June 1966. Color chronicle: Four men walking along a path in the Alexander Garden.

They sit on a bench.

A panorama of each man.

Color chronicle: A panorama of the city of Moscow (view from above).

B/W photo: A meeting of people.

B/W family photo.

B/W photo: A gray-haired man surrounded by men of Caucasian descent.

B/W photo: A group of men at a table.

B/W photo: A brand new Volga.

B/W photo: Three young men.

B/W chronicle: People at a table in a room at home.

B/W photo: A large family against the backdrop of nature.

B/W photo: A gray-haired man and men sitting in a field.

B/W photo: A gray-haired man in a field.

A tractor with a trailer, a b/w photo of a group of people, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man in military uniform with orders and medals on his chest with men and teenagers, a panorama of a two-story long schoolhouse, a sign on a school, children-students at a school, a panorama of a road.

Hills.

Cars driving.

Dry earth.

Mountains.

An elderly man in a short-sleeved checkered shirt on the street, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man in a white shirt, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man holding a paper in his hand.

A jacket with orders and medals hangs, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man and a little girl, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man rocking a cradle with a baby.

A woman by the window holds a child in her arms, a b/w photo of a gray-haired man, a military man reading a document to a gray-haired man, a b/w chronicle of a letter (departure), a b/w chronicle of a gray-haired man at a table showing letters.

People are sitting at a long table.

Color chronicle.

Orders and medals on the chest of a gray-haired man (transition).

A man in an airplane seat.

Color chronicle.

A man in a gray sweater speaks French.

Black and white photo of a meeting of resistance veterans.

Black and white photo of two veterans.

Black and white chronicle.

A man gets out of a car and hugs a gray-haired man.

Black and white chronicle.

A conversation between two veterans.

They are looking at photographs.

Black and white chronicle.

A gray-haired man walks down a city street.

Cars.

People.

Panorama of a building.

A gray-haired man walks by and hugs another man.

A meeting of veterans.

Black and white chronicle.

Men in suits with awards line up one by one.

Black and white chronicle.

A gray-haired man and all the men take a step forward one by one, then a step back.

Black and white chronicle.

They pour from a bottle into glasses.

Men sitting at a table outdoors, b/w photo of two resistance veterans.

Color chronicle: a gray-haired man walking near trees, b/w photo of two veterans, b/w photo of four men against the backdrop of mountains.

B/w photo of a group of people in a museum, b/w photo of two men near a monument.

Color: a car driving along the road of a mountain village.

Paved street.

Car wheel, b/w photo of an elderly man in winter clothes.

ZTM. Color: a man in a short-sleeved checkered shirt outdoors, b/w photo of a gray-haired man holding two children's hands.

Color: a man in a checkered shirt sitting on a bed in a room, b/w photo of a mountain village.

Mountains (zoom in).

Color: a man in a checkered shirt and two teenage girls.

Color: a man in a checkered shirt and two teenage girls kissing him on the cheeks.

Color: a man in a checkered shirt and two teenage girls.

Girl (zoom in on the girl's face).

ZTM.