Post-war Romania (1945-1947)

Footage №194826,

Reel №1

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Peasant work in Eastern Europe.

A peasant plows the land, a woman sows seeds.

Women spin wool.

The poor life of peasants.

Keywords

village, village, Job, hunger

Shooting locations:

East Europe

Reel №2

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Girls ride through the city in a carriage.

Peasants eat on the steps of a columned building.

A beggar woman with a child asks for alms.

A scuffle breaks out between two men and a boy in tattered clothes.

Keywords

poverty, wealth, everyday life

Shooting locations:

Bucharest

Reel №3

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Romania's fascist dictator Antonescu.

A rally in Bucharest.

People speak emotionally.

The crowd chants and shakes its fists.

Keywords

court, protest, insurrection, dictatorship

Persons:

Ion Antonescu - Romanian statesman and military leader, dictator

Reel №4

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Peasants in traditional dress and playing musical instruments walk through a field with a surveyor.

A woman drives a peg into the ground.

A peasant's hands are full of soil.

Drought in Romania in the summer.

Keywords

division of land, socialism, village, weather cataclysm

Reel №5

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An airplane in the sky.

Romanian Prime Minister Pietro Groza in Moscow at a reception with M.I. Kalinin.

Pietro Groza and A.I. Mikoyan sign a document.

The people welcome Pietro Groza upon his return from Moscow.

Keywords

USSR, help, agreement

Persons:

Petru Groza is a Romanian statesman and political figure, anti-fascist

Mikhail Kalinin - Soviet statesman and party leader

Shooting locations:

Moscow, Bucharest

Reel №6

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Clashes in Bucharest between communists and monarchists.

People in the crowd beat a man.

Police officers flee.

Funerals for those killed in the clashes.

Romanian Prime Minister Pietro Groza walks in the funeral procession.

Keywords

reaction, demonstration, victims

Persons:

Petru Groza is a Romanian statesman and political figure, anti-fascist

Shooting locations:

Bucharest

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