A film about the preparation of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in 1985. Activities of the Festival Committees in Portugal, Italy, Germany, Spain. Press conferences, rallies, demonstrations in various countries in support of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students.
Moscow.
Directions - embankment, Maly Kamenny Bridge.
Directions - Gorky Street (Tverskaya Street), post office.
The Kremlin - view from above.
Auditorium. 3rd meeting of the International Preparatory Committee of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students.
TV cameraman with a camera.
Committee members.
Presidium.
Chairman of the Soviet Preparatory Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Viktor Maksimovich Mishin speaking.
Candidate for membership in the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev speaking.
A member of the Socialist Union of Polish Youth gives an interview.
A Frenchwoman gives an interview.
An American gives an interview.
Press center of the Soviet Preparatory Committee.
Correspondents transmit information from the press center by telephone - PNR. Letters on the table.
Press center employees sort through correspondence.
Discussion of festival badges.
Badge models on the table.
Discussion of the festival emblem.
Artist Rafael Zeynurovich Masautov is the winner of the contest for the best festival emblem.
Emblem variants on the table.
Press center teletype employees at work – panorama.
Demonstration of the Soviet-French peace march.
Participants of the Soviet-American youth conference for peace against nuclear war visiting the artist: people in the room, guests sitting at the table, looking at art objects.
Caucasian dance in the meadow.
A man taking pictures.
People in the street with flowers.
Sirtaki dance on the stage.
Port of Nakhodka. panorama of the room: participants of the international seminar of young researchers on peace problems in the Pacific Ocean basin sitting at tables over papers.
Brochure in French panorama of a young man.
People sitting on a step.
Young people standing near a bus.
An American and a Vietnamese talking.
Water, ships sailing in the distance.
View from the Spit of Vasilievsky Island to the Neva and the Admiralty.
People clap their hands at a demonstration at a youth camp.
A young man takes a photo.
Africans mow the grass in a field.
An African beats off a scythe.
Africans stack hay.
The Volga Automobile Plant.
Young people assemble cars on the conveyor.
A wheel is screwed onto a VAZ. A car rolls off the conveyor.
A compressor station on a section of the Urengoy-Center gas pipeline: people on the tribune and in the square.
Aerial view – a compressor station.
A meeting of the Ghanaian delegation in the preparatory committee.
A meeting with representatives of the British churches: members of the delegations talk at the negotiating table.
A meeting with a delegation of the National Union of Algerian Youth in the committee of youth organizations of the USSR.
International youth movement, Extracurricular education, Pitchforks, stack, car parts, Zhiguli, headlight, steering wheel assembly, automobile workshop, meeting
Mishin V.M. - Chairman of the Soviet Preparatory Committee
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Ponomarev B.N. - candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Masautov R.Z. - artist
Summer
Teletype of the committee.
Female employees at work.
Kr.pl. – message on teletype in English.
Panorama of Lisbon.
Meeting of the preparatory festival committee.
People on the street.
Leaflets with the festival appeal are being distributed on the street.
A woman reads a leaflet.
An elderly woman communicates with young people.
An elderly couple reads a leaflet.
A little boy holds a woman by the hand.
A Portuguese woman speaks Russian.
Rome.
Books with the inscription “Rome”.
Archaeological monuments.
People on the square.
Panorama of the square.
Excursion groups near exhibits on the street.
Congratulating the bride.
A square with a fountain.
Young people sitting on the steps, a young man playing the guitar.
A street artist is painting a portrait of a girl.
Artist Stefano Filini shows paintings on the street.
Drawings of Nazi symbols on the walls of Roman streets.
Chronicle: 1933-1945. Hitler takes the parade.
Nazi symbol made of torches.
Books are thrown into the fire.
Smoking city (top view).
Collapsing houses.
Head of a corpse.
Corpses in a concentration camp.
German soldiers marching.
Germany.
Anti-fascist rally near the monument to the victims of fascism.
Former prisoners of the camps stand with flags near the monument.
PPR along the monument.
Monument to the Unknown Soldier.
Honor guard.
People.
Minute of silence.
PPR - Hamburg port.
Warships.
Civilian ships on the river.
Meeting of the Socialist German Working Youth.
The tape with the message comes out of the teletype.
Valencia.
Streets.
On the table there is an ashtray, a cup of coffee, books, on a piece of paper the hands of the PPR are writing about the people at the table.
Representatives of the Soviet and Spanish delegations are talking at the tables.
Buildings on the shore, sunset.
Chronicle: 1937-1938. Spanish children are sent to the USSR. Lighthouse on the shore.
Night.
aqueduct, XII World Festival of Youth and Students, concentration camp prisoner uniform, Coliseum
Hitler A. - Reich Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany
1933-1945
Italy Portugal Germany Spain
Summer
View from above – children and young people walk past the Eternal Flame on the Hill of Glory in the Artek pioneer camp.
A boy without hands.
A rally for peace in Artek.
Protesters clap their hands and hold banners.
A performance at the stadium in Artek.
Protesters in the stands waving flags.
Moscow.
International Meeting of Working Youth.
A crowd of people at a meeting-rally.
With banners, flags.
Chanting slogans.
A cameraman with a movie camera.
A stage.
Actors in national costumes of different countries applaud.
Chronicle 1947: Emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Prague. 1949: Emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Budapest. 1951: Emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin. 1953: Emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest. 1955: Emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw. 1957: emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. 1959: emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna. 1962: emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki. 1968: emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sofia. 1973: emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin. 1978: emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana.
A model of the Earth with the festival emblem is spinning.
Dance with white scarves.
Girls in Russian national costumes.
Faces.
Hands waving flags.
Doves are being released.
A tram with festival participants passes by, city residents wave their hands at them.
Demonstrators under white banners walk along the street.
Demonstrators.
Chronicle of 1957: footage of the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
Electronic scoreboard at the stadium.
Delegates of the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students.
symbols of the festival, struggle for peace, child education
1947-1978
Summer