Liberation of Vienna (1955)

Movie №4498, 1 part, Duration: 0:09:47 B/W
Availability: The film document has not been published
Studio CSDF (RCSDF)

Annotation:

On the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Vienna from the Nazi occupiers.

Historical reference:

On April 13, 1945, the capital of Austria, Vienna, was liberated from the Nazi occupiers by the Soviet army. The film was created based on newsreels shot in 1945.

Reel №1

Newsreel 1945: The city of Vienna.

German soldiers march through the streets.

Soviet troops drive along the roads.

The Military Council of the Third Ukrainian Front.

Marshal Tolbukhin at the map.

Fighting on the approaches to Vienna.

Cars drive through the village.

Peasants greet the Soviet Army.

A Soviet plane drops leaflets with an appeal from Marshal Tolbukhin to the residents of Vienna.

Burning Vienna.

Street fighting on the outskirts of the city.

The capital of Austria liberated from the Nazis.

St.

Stephen's Cathedral.

The Town Hall building.

The theater building.

Flags with swastikas burn.

The national flag of the republic flutters over the city.

The residents of Vienna greet the soldiers of the Soviet Army and talk to them.

Soviet soldiers lay flowers on the grave of J. Strauss.

Officers of the Soviet Army and Marshal Tolbukhin walk through the house where Beethoven lived.

Viennese return to the city.

Prisoners of fascism, liberated from concentration camps, are walking.

Viennese read newspapers and leaflets.

Soviet soldiers distribute food to the population.

A train with grain from the Soviet Union.

Baking bread.

Selling bread.

An engineering unit of the Soviet Army restores a bridge.

The ceremonial entry of the provisional government of Austria into the parliament building.

The Soviet military commandant of the city greets the members of the government.

Viennese dance in the streets.

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