Frontline concert brigades (1941-1945)

Chronicle of the 1940s.

Battles on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

Front-line cameramen with cameras.

Columns of soldiers on Red Square, on the streets of Moscow.

Train with the Soviet military.

Women wave after the train.

Soldiers on the roof of the train.

Actor Nikolai Kryuchkov performs the song "Three Tankmen, three cheerful friends".

Credits " Soyuzkinojournal No. 64 July 10, 1941»

Titles "The word of the poet. A. Surkov".

Poet Alexey Surkov talks about military poetry.

Chronicle, Soviet soldiers in between battles.

Field kitchen, soldiers around the campfire, eating, chatting.

Forest, field printing works (many frames).

Typesetters collect forms for printing newspapers from metal letters.

The newspaper's circulation is put in the back of a truck.

In the frame of the war correspondents, writers Alexander Fadeev, Mikhail Sholokhov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Ilya Selvinsky, Semyon Kirsanov.

Concerts of front-line brigades.

Artists dance, sing, soldiers listen, applaud (many shots).

The singer performs the song "Sailor" (The sailor left home).

Leonid Utesov performs the song "Be healthy, live richly" (military version).

Leonid Utesov performs the song "Mishka-Odessite".

Claudia Shulzhenko performs the song "Blue Handkerchief".

City streets, anti-aircraft guns, airships over Moscow.

Muscovites take shelter in the subway lobby, long rows of sleepers.

Shots from anti-aircraft guns.

Soldiers listen to the guitar song "Dark Night".

Women work in the military and metallurgical workshops.

Women lower the forest to the water, carry logs.

Winter, besieged Leningrad.

Women with buckets collect water from the ditches, from the hole in the river.

Concert posters, palaces of culture.

A projectionist carries a film on a scooter, there are explosions around.

Arkady Raikin talks about the performances at the front (synchronously).

Lydia Ruslanova performs the song "The Moon is Shining, the clear One is shining", chastushki.

Lyubov Orlova dances in front of the soldiers with an accordion.

The soloists sing, accompanied by a military choir.

Nikolai Kryuchkov and Mikhail Zharov perform ditties.

Military Soviet cartoons of German soldiers and Hitler.

Front, shelling.

The airfield, pilots and mechanics are standing at the aircraft.

There is a piano in the open air.

For the pilots, the pianist Emil Gilels plays.

The plane is flying over the city.

Shooting the destroyed city from the plane.

A musician carries a cello, walks along a street destroyed by bombing.

Children's ensemble of violinists.

Cutting footage of the military chronicle for the song " Get up, the country is huge, get up for a mortal battle!".

Victory Day.

Jubilation of people on Red Square, hugging, kissing.