Their weapon is a movie camera (1980)

Leningrad, the Opera and Ballet Theatre, the audience is applauding in the hall.

On the stage, a ceremony is taking place to present the Hero City of Leningrad with the Order of the "Golden Star" - in the frame, L. I. Brezhnev and other officials.

Panorama of the hall, people are applauding.

Brezhnev is delivering a speech from the rostrum.

People in the hall are listening to the General Secretary.

Brezhnev is speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad, Baltic sailors are marching in formation on the embankment, in the frame - streets and houses, a soldier is looking at the sky through binoculars, anti-aircraft guns are firing, city residents are building fortifications, Leningrad during the winter blockade, various shots of city residents, a soldier is warming himself by a fire near a tank, soldiers are going on the attack, etc.

Large - the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad".

Chronicle of June 22, 1941 - Leningrad, dawn, the Bronze Horseman monument, the spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress is visible. drawbridges, the Neva, graduates walking along the empty streets.

Large - a poster for the opera "Romeo and Juliet", the date "June 22, 1941" is visible.

Chronicle of 1941 - recruits are given rifles, soldiers say goodbye to their families before being sent to the front, soldiers march in columns along the city streets, barrage balloons hang in the air, trucks with soldiers and military equipment drive across the square, an airplane in the sky, an explosion in the water.

Photo by cameraman Sumkin.

Chronicle of 1941 - warships in the Baltic Sea.

In the photo - cameraman Sergei Fomin.

Chronicle of 1941 - warships in the Baltic Sea, explosions, panorama of suburban dacha forest (shot from the water), soldier firing a machine gun, etc.

Chronicle of 1941 - panorama of the historical center of Leningrad (shot from above), soldier near a gun, watching the sky through binoculars, view of Leningrad from above, people on the streets of the city, running to bomb shelters, anti-aircraft and artillery guns firing, airplane in the sky - dropping bombs on the city, guns firing, explosions in the water, destroyed buildings, people clearing rubble, putting out a fire, in the frame - a bomb explosion in the city.

In the photo - cameraman Vladimir Stragin with a movie camera.

Chronicle of 1941 - collapse of a house, explosions, incendiary bombs, people on the street after the bombing, in the frame - the wounded are lying on stretchers on the ground, a view of a tram damaged by an explosion, a wounded man is carried on a stretcher, dead people are lying in a truck, the hospital building on Suvorovsky is burning, a panorama of a fire, the surrounding area, people, clearing the rubble of a house, in the frame - the dead under the rubble, the wounded are carried on stretchers, in the frame - children, girls with rifles from the militia are marching along the streets of the city, a view of fortifications, pillboxes on the streets of the city, a checkpoint, people are getting off the tram, documents are being checked at the checkpoint, residents of Leningrad are digging trenches, ditches near the city limits, a panorama of a formation with soldiers, infantry is walking along the road, a truck with a boat is driving, in the frame - forcing the Neva in boats, explosions on the water, boats with soldiers, soldiers are running along the bank, shooting from machine guns, a machine gun fires, explosions are heard, soldiers in trenches, etc.

Photo by cameraman Konstantin Stankevich.

Chronicle of 1941 - fierce battles on the Nevsky Pyatachok, soldiers in trenches, going on the attack, explosions are heard, a soldier digs in a shelter, etc.

Veteran cameraman Nikolai Blazhkov speaks.

Chronicle of 1941-1945 - a military cameraman films with a hand-held camera during a battle, cameramen are next to soldiers at a firing point, in military aircraft, on ships, on battlefields, etc.

Chronicle of 1941 - filming from besieged Leningrad, views of the city, guns on the streets, etc.

Veteran cameraman Evgeny Bogorov speaks.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - winter blockade of Leningrad, people on the streets of the city, stopped public transport, residents with sleds, sleds carrying things, people, wrapped bodies, an artist drawing on the street, etc.

Film director Efim Uchitel speaks.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - an exhausted man falls into a snowdrift, city streets, snow, frost, people with sleds, a man carrying a coffin, a group of people near a dead man on the street, passers-by lift a fallen exhausted woman, they carry coffins, a dead man on the ground, people walk by, fires in the city, a fire truck drives by, they put out the fire, various shots from the fire, the heroic work of firefighters is shown, a victim is carried out on a stretcher, flames, black clouds of smoke, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - city streets, a ship in the ice near the frozen embankment of the Neva, soldiers marching in formation with rifles, composer Dmitry Shostakovich playing the piano, composing a symphony, Leningraders collecting water at an ice hole, children in a classroom at a lesson, a woman cutting up rations of blockade bread, weighing them on scales.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad under siege, a plane flying, a building collapsing, people in the streets, bodies lying around, people in outerwear sitting in the library, reading books, eating bread, a postman putting a letter in a mailbox.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad under siege, panorama of the city (shot from above), different views of the winter city, meeting of the city leadership, in the frame A. A. Zhdanov, A. A. Kuznetsov and others, in the frame - a workshop of the ammunition plant.

The building of the Molodezhny cinema on Sadovaya.

Veteran, cameraman Anatoly Pogorely speaks.

In the frame - the interiors of the cinema, the hall, the foyer, the auditorium, the screen.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - battles for the Ivanovo bridgehead, warships on the water, etc.

Photograph of a military cameraman.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - battles for the Ivanovo bridgehead, soldiers on boats, explosions, a boat with soldiers explodes, troops land on the shore, soldiers run to attack, planes in the sky, a column of trucks drives on Lake Ladoga, a medical orderly bandages a wounded man, trucks with food drive, anti-aircraft guns hit enemy planes, trucks drive on water, evacuation of children to the mainland, children are put on boats, motorboats, trucks with food drive, sacks of food for Leningrad are loaded into a train car, women work at an ammunition factory, tanks are produced at a plant in Leningrad, trucks drive along the Road of Life, etc.

Chronicle 1942 - panorama of the poster for the film "Leningrad in the Struggle".

Photos by cameramen and directors of the film - Valery Solovtsov, Efim Uchitel, Evgeny Bagorov, Anatoly Pogorely, Vladimir Stradin.

Chronicle 1942-1943 - people on the streets of Leningrad, in the frame - a newspaper article about the film "Leningrad in the Struggle", battles on the approaches to Leningrad, guns are firing, explosions are heard, etc., the beginning of the operation to break the blockade (January 18, 1943) - soldiers run to the attack, guns are firing, a red flag is hung out, a meeting of soldiers of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts, etc.

Chronicle 1943-1944 - people on the streets of Leningrad, a poster on the wall "The blockade of Leningrad is broken", city residents remove snow, clear rubble, garbage, etc., trams start running, a view of the city streets, tanks drive along the street.

Chronicle 1943-1944 - partisan battle in the forest, in the frame - a shootout, explosions, soldiers in camouflage, a train is moving, shots, a German train is burning, dead Germans are lying, a cameraman in a camouflage suit with a weapon is filming with a hand-held movie camera, partisans are carrying a machine gun.

Photo by military cameraman Boris Dementyev.

Chronicle 1943-1944 - a partisan cart is moving in the forest, in the frame - partisans with weapons.

Chronicle January 1944 - a horse patrol on the streets of Leningrad early in the winter morning, searchlights in the sky, military planes are flying, soldiers in the trenches are waiting for the attack to begin.

In the photo - military cameramen with movie cameras (Viktor Maksimovich and Yakov Blumberg).

Chronicle January 1944 - there is a battle, guns are firing, explosions are heard.

In the photo - military cameramen with movie cameras (Viktor Maksimovich and Yakov Blumberg).

Chronicle of January 18, 1944 - the offensive of Soviet troops, the operation to finally break through the blockade, guns are firing, explosions are heard, soldiers are running to attack, tanks are driving, etc., in the frame - a festive salute in Leningrad, happy faces of city residents, etc., a military traffic controller is working, tanks are driving along a winter road, soldiers are walking along the streets of a liberated village, an old woman is crossing passing soldiers, bowing, women and children are crying, dead civilians are lying on the ground.

Chronicle 1944-1945 - various footage of battles, explosions, a military cameraman with a camera, a burning house, fire, street battles in the city, in the frame - a military cameraman filming with a camera in his hands, footage of the chronicle of battles in Berlin, the Reichstag, raising the red flag, on the stairs of the Reichstag, soldiers and a cameraman (Boris Dementyev), in the frame - a crowd of jubilant people, civilians with flowers, soldiers marching in formation, girls giving flowers, food, etc.

The poet Mikhail Dudin speaks.

Leningrad, May 9, parade - veterans marching.

In the frame - Leningrad residents applauding veterans, children.

Footage of the chronicle - the inscription on the wall is painted over "During artillery shelling, this side of the street is the most dangerous." Parade on May 9 on Nevsky Prospekt - a military brass band plays, in the frame - veterans.

Chronicle 1944-1945 - Leningrad returns to peaceful life, monuments are unveiled.

A military brass band is playing.

Filming of a modern parade is interspersed with footage of the 1944-1945 chronicle - the Admiralty spire is unveiled, a female steeplejack is on the spire.

A view of the parade from above, from the balcony of the building.

Veterans and city residents lay flowers at the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square.

Close-up - the sculptural composition of the monument.

A cameraman is working behind the camera.

In the frame - cameramen, photographers filming the holiday.

Panorama of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad (shot from above).