The film tells about the struggle of Soviet and German designers to create the best tank. Much attention is paid to the creation of the famous "thirty-four".
Newsreel from 1943: combat operations of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht during the battles on the Kursk Bulge, self-propelled artillery units firing.
German tanks are burning.
The body of a German tanker on the armor of a burning vehicle.
A dead driver-mechanic near a burning T-34 tank.
A burning German tank, the body of a German tanker hanging upside down from a side hatch.
Burning and destroyed German armored vehicles.
British-made Mk.
V tanks at a parade on Red Square in the 1920s, a photograph of the first Soviet MS tank, newsreel interspersed with photographs.
MS tanks pass in front of the mausoleum during a parade on Red Square, a portrait of M.N. Tukhachevsky.
View of Red Square during a military parade (top).
Airplanes fly over the Spasskaya Tower.
Tachankas, cavalry and horse artillery pass through Red Square in 1930. Airplanes fly over Red Square.
Photograph of a T-26 light tank.
A T-26 tank passes through a forest, breaking tree trunks.
Photograph of a high-speed BT-2 light tank.
BT series tanks overcome obstacles at a training ground at high speed.
T-28 and T-35 heavy tanks (newsreel photographs).
A T-35 tank at the parade on Red Square on May 1, 1934, Voroshilov K.E., Stalin I.V., Dimitrov G.M. on the mausoleum tribune.
Ordzhonikidze G.K. and Voroshilov on the mausoleum tribune.
BT-5 tanks pass through Red Square.
View of Red Square during the passage of BT tanks (from above).
Newsreel from the 1920s: an infantry unit of the Reichswehr during drill exercises.
An officer, sitting on horseback, gives commands.
Drill exercises in one of the cavalry units of the Reichswehr.
Photographs of wooden models of German tanks made for exercises at a secret training ground.
Photograph of General G. Guderian.
Photograph of German industrialists.
Portrait of the "cannon king" G. Krupp.
Photograph of one of Krupp's enterprises.
Photograph of one of the tank production workshops.
Newsreel from 1933: Hitler A at a rally among the SA stormtroopers after coming to power.
Hitler rides in a car.
Hitler greets Krupp.
View of part of the territory of one of the Krupp factories.
Tank production in one of the workshops of the Krupp factory.
The face of General of the Tank Troops G. Guderian.
German light tanks PZ-1 during exercises at a training ground in 1935-1936. Republican officers at a command post during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. T-26 tanks supplied by the Soviet Union to the Spanish Republican Government.
General Franco's tank crews training.
BT tanks attack during battles with Franco's forces.
Franco's army artillerymen fire a new rapid-fire anti-tank gun.
A government ZIS-101 enters the gates of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
Drawings of new tank models proposed for development by Soviet designers in the second half of the 1930s.
Photo portrait of T-34 tank designer M.I. Koshkin.
Drawings of the T-34 tank prototype, outside and in section.
Panorama of part of the wall of one of the buildings in the Moscow Kremlin.
Portrait of Marshal of the Soviet Union Kulik.
Photograph of Stalin lighting a pipe.
Portrait of Koshkin.
Photograph of Stalin during another speech.
Images of the T-34 tank from different angles.
Photo of Stalin and Voroshilov smoking.
Newsreel from 1940: tank production at a German plant.
T-III tanks leaving their bays.
Wehrmacht tank units on the march and during military operations in Western Europe and Poland in 1939-1940. German tanks on the Place de l'Etoile near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 1940. Employees of one of the design bureaus at work.
Wehrmacht units after the invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941. German infantry and armored vehicles on the march.
German tanks on the march.
Soviet tanks burning on the sides of the roads.
Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich Goebbels J. greets the military during a ceremonial event.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich -- statesman and political figure Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich -- statesman
political and military figure Dimitrov Georgiy Mikhailovich -- Bulgarian statesman and political figure Ordzhonikidze Grigory Konstantinovich -- statesman and political figure Hitler Adolf -- German statesman and political figure Goebbels Joseph Paul -- German statesman and political figure Guderian Heinz Wilhelm -- German military leader Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria -- German industrialist
1920s 1930 1933 05/01/1934 1935 1939 1940 06/1941 08/1943 1985
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Newsreel from 1943: Soviet T-34 and KV-1 tanks overcome obstacles during the offensive.
Burning German tanks, interspersed with photographs.
Photograph of Guderian in the cabin of an airplane.
German tank crews service armored vehicles on the Eastern Front in the fall of 1941. Group photograph of German tank designers.
Drawings of German tanks with a modernization scheme (animation).
Newsreel from 1941: German tanks on the march near Moscow in the winter of 1941. German officers look through binoculars and stereoscopes.
Firing from a tank gun.
Views of the Moscow Kremlin in the fall of 1941. Portraits of I.V. Stalin and G.K. Zhukov.
Domes of the cathedrals of the Moscow Kremlin.
Photograph of Stalin in the Kremlin office.
Newsreel from 1941-1942: destroyed factory buildings.
A train with factory equipment heading East.
Tank assembly in a workshop of one of the Ural factories.
Women and children assembling tanks.
Assembling a tank engine.
Transporting a tank turret using a crane beam.
T-34 tanks on the conveyor of one of the factories.
A train with tanks on platforms heading to the front.
Hitler with German armored vehicle designers.
Hitler listens to explanations from designer F. Porsche.
Hitler gives instructions to designers.
Portrait of F. Porsche.
One of the first German heavy tanks, the Tiger, during testing.
Photograph of Hitler shaking hands with designer E. Anders.
The Tiger tank designed by Anders during testing.
The Panther medium tank during testing.
Photograph of the T-34-76 tank.
German tank crews inspect dents in the armor after hits from the 76-mm gun of the T-34 tank.
Photographs of Soviet designers Zh.
Ya.
Kotin and Dukhov.
Photo of new Soviet self-propelled artillery units armed with a 152-mm gun.
Newsreel from 1943: ISU-152 self-propelled guns on the march during the battles on the Kursk Bulge.
Photographs of tank designers.
Newsreel from 1942: Chief Tank Designer Morozov holds a meeting in the workshop, photo of a T-34 tank with a new 85-mm gun.
Fragments of the feature film "Liberation".
Photo of the IS-1 heavy tank, created in the Kotin design bureau.
Photograph of American soldiers inspecting the armor of a Tiger tank penetrated by an IS-1 gun.
Newsreel from 1943: Kalinin M.I. presents awards in the Kremlin.
Morozov A.A. with the Order of Lenin presented to him.
Hitler and the military accompanying him go to a meeting at headquarters.
Hitler speaks at the meeting.
Photographs of the "Royal Tiger" tank. "King Tiger" tanks on the march.
Photo of the T-34-85 tank.
Photo of the tank commander, Junior Lieutenant Oskin, with crew members.
Photo of the destroyed "King Tiger" tank.
Photo of F. Porsche.
Photographs of the "Maus" super-heavy tank under construction.
Photo of the "Maus" tank at the proving ground.
Newsreel from 1945: view of Red Square during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. Troops in parade formation.
The battalion of captured banners in parade formation on Red Square.
Hitler's personal standard on the cobblestones.
T-34 tank on a pedestal.
Tanks of new modifications during exercises.
The tank commander gives commands.
A tank crossing a water obstacle along the river bottom.
A tank unit of the Soviet Army attacks a simulated enemy.
Winter steppe landscape.
Performing the "tank waltz" at the training ground.
Adolf Hitler -- German statesman and political figure Ferdinand Porsche -- German designer of automobiles and armored vehicles Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin -- statesman and political figure Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov -- designer of armored vehicles
1941 1942 1943 06.24.1945 1985
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