The film is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Yugoslavia from the fascist occupiers.
Yugoslavia. Landscapes. Harvesting. Workers building a house, working in factory workshops. Mountain village. Peasants ploughing with oxen. National holiday: horse racing, cooking, folk dancing. The cities of Sarajevo, Belgrade. Views of old and new streets. People passing by. Laying wreaths at monuments. Chronicle. German military equipment moving. Combat operations. Bombings. German soldiers in the trenches. The burning city of Belgrade. The killed. Photographs of the hanged, execution of partisans. Chronicle showing the combat operations and everyday life of the Yugoslav partisans. Peasants leaving for the forest. Partisans in the forest, in the mountains, on the march, in combat. Explosions of bridges, railway tracks. Everyday life in partisan camps. Children, women, old people, the wounded sit by the fires. Partisans at a rest stop: bandaging the wounded, having lunch, singing, dancing. Partisans speaking (synchronously). The wounded are carried on stretchers, taken in carts, put on a Soviet plane that has flown across the front line. Chronicle. Combat operations of the Soviet aviation, artillery, tanks. Soviet and Yugoslav soldiers on the streets of Belgrade. Residents welcome the liberators. Marshal JB Tito speaks at a rally in Belgrade. The town of Gornji Milanovec. Reburial of the remains of the dead. Honor guard at the monument. Meeting of Yugoslav and Soviet former prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Demonstrators walk past the government stands. Landscape.
Landscapes of Yugoslavia (summer).
Waterfalls.
A timber rafter on a mountain river.
Mountain lake.
Branches of blossoming trees.
Sunflower - red.
Cartoon: Border post.
Two border guards with a dog are standing.
Field.
A peasant is working - red.
A peasant woman - red.
A combine harvester in a field.
A panorama of a girl on a funicular in the mountains.
Tourists at a waterfall.
Mountain landscapes; highways in the mountains.
A bridge over a mountain river.
A city street on the shore of the Adriatic Sea (with palm trees).
Young men and women with flags are going to work.
Young people are working at a construction site (earthworks).
Construction of a hydroelectric power station.
Workers - red.
Construction of a residential building.
Workshop of a textile factory.
Workshop of a metallurgical plant.
Factories, factory chimneys - medium, general.
A passenger ship at a shipyard.
Launching a new ship.
Villages in the mountains.
A tower in the mountains. an old man, another old man, a girl - kr.
A woman gets water from a well.
Various ancient monuments; an ancient cathedral; the ruined Colosseum; columns of a building; sculptures, ornamentation; ancient fortresses; ruined fortress walls.
An ancient city; a mountain river in the city.
A woman in a burqa passes by.
Peasants plough with oxen.
Men in national costumes, with shields - kr.
The folk festival of alkari (riders knock down a ring).
The festival of shepherds.
A man prepares shashlik - kr.
A lamb carcass is roasting on a fire.
Men are drinking wine.
A boy in a national costume - kr.
Peasants are dancing a folk dance.
Children; girls' faces - kr.
A fisherman is weaving a net - kr.
A man is working on the shore near a boat.
An ancient city; people on the street.
A hand holds a jug under the tap - kr.
Products of folk craftsmen made of wood, metal.
A craftsman at work.
Old street lamp, old sign on the house.
City of Sarajevo - general, panorama taken from v/t.
Narrow streets in the old part of the city; horses are led along the street.
Streets with large modern buildings - misc.
General view of Belgrade - a panorama with military equipment.
Streets of Belgrade, traffic, people on the streets.
Children running down the stairs (from the school).
Children on a bench, on the grass, etc. - various.
Monument-obelisk to the liberators of Yugoslavia from the fascist invaders.
Foot of the monument.
Faces of a young man, girls, men - red.
Laying wreaths at the monument.
Monuments.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Anti-fascist demonstration in Belgrade, bombs falling from a German plane.
Burning Belgrade - from above, etc.
German motorized units, tanks, planes during the offensive in Yugoslavia.
German soldiers shooting, running out of trenches, driving in a car, standing by a burning house, walking.
Explosions, fires.
A corpse in a pool of blood.
Destroyed building in Belgrade (shot from an airplane).
Cartoon: the map shows the areas of occupation of Yugoslavia.
Olive grove - Poland.
German soldiers in an olive grove - firing.
A bridge, a German train, and a telegraph pole explode.
Explosions - the Germans run away, hide.
Peasant partisans say goodbye to their women and children and leave.
A partisan knocks on the window.
A peasant leaves the house.
The owner of the house closes the windows.
The women, leaving, kiss the door of the house.
Peasants go into the forest.
Partisans pass by.
Partisans in the forest.
Partisans in ambush.
Yugoslav partisans during an offensive in the mountains.
Explosions.
A bridge explodes.
Railway track (from the passage).
Portrait of Josip Broz Tito - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, who headed the Supreme Headquarters of the People's Liberation Detachments of the Partisans.
Partisans receive weapons.
German leaflet (Gestapo announcement that 10,000 marks in gold will be paid for Tito's head).
German occupiers in Yugoslavia - various.
Germans with a resident they have detained.
Photo: gallows, execution of partisans.
Partisans pass through the mountains, advance, go on the attack, shoot, fire from guns - various.
Burning houses.
Partisans pass through a liberated city.
An old man with children.
A partisan with a crying boy.
Peasants leave for the mountains, drive cattle - various.
Partisans and civilians (to Kazary) go to the mountains together.
The Germans surround the partisans.
The Nazis shoot.
Partisans shoot (after the encirclement of Kazary by the Germans).
Newsreel 1941-1945: Women, children, old people sitting in the forest by the fires.
Explosions of shells, explosions in the mountains.
German planes in the air.
Civilians hiding in the mountains run away.
Cows in the gorge.
Wounded partisans.
Children drinking water.
Meeting of partisans.
Partisans and civilians running (breaking out of encirclement).
Partisans firing guns, advancing.
Destroyed houses.
An old man in the ashes.
Dome of a church.
A bell lies on the ground.
Partisans fighting in a destroyed village.
Residents carrying hay.
A woman pours milk for the partisans.
Girls sew on machines in a workshop.
Yugoslav flag on a building - the People's Republic of Poland against the people (in an area liberated from the fascists).
Photo: Delegates of the 1st Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia (Bihac, autumn 1942).
Groups of partisans at a halt.
Smiling girls, a man and a woman - red.
Partisans are singing; dancing the folk dance "Kolo"; a partisan is playing the accordion.
Partisans are walking in a single file along the ridge - general, Polish People's Republic.
German tank, soldiers are walking behind the tank.
The Germans are loading guns and shooting.
A German is looking through binoculars.
Cartoon: the map shows the exit of the People's Liberation Army from German encirclement (January 1943).
Partisans are fighting in the mountains.
Partisans crossing in winter conditions in the mountains.
Partisans are walking at night.
Barefoot partisans are walking in the snow.
Bare feet walking in the snow - red.
They carry the wounded, help the wounded and sick to walk.
A nurse bandages a wounded man.
Another girl rubs a partisan's frostbitten feet.
Partisans during a spring crossing (in Central Bosnia).
German tanks, vehicles with soldiers on the march.
Nazis and partisans fight in the mountains.
Photo: partisans crossing; partisans carrying the wounded; group photos of partisans.
Yugoslav partisans, both male and female, talk about the difficult days of crossing and fighting (synchronously, with Russian subtitles).
Newsreel 1941-1945: Photographs of partisans who died fighting for the freedom of Yugoslavia - the first commissar of the first brigade Artem, Pajcik, Rashevich, Vasic, Mom and others.
Mountains - general, Poland.
Partisans at a rest stop.
Partisan girls sing, bandage the wounded, hang bandages to dry.
Partisans are having lunch.
Shoes are being repaired.
Wounded partisans are sitting.
Partisan fighters inspect captured German weapons; they throw tanks and a cannon from the mountain into the river.
Fighters carry the wounded; the wounded descend to the river; fighters walk along a small bridge, cross the river on a ferry.
A blown up bridge over the river.
The wounded are being transported in carts; typhus patients are being carried.
A dead fighter.
Soviet pilots near an airplane.
Wounded Yugoslav fighters board Soviet airplanes.
A pile of shoes left by the wounded for those fighting.
People’s Army soldiers fire cannons and machine guns, march through the streets of liberated cities – residents greet them.
Soldiers load ammunition onto a platform.
Soldiers on a train.
Photo: Hall and Presidium of the Second Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People’s Liberation of Yugoslavia (November 1943).
Yugoslav newspapers published during the war.
A book with illustrations is being turned over – the poem “The Hole” by Ivan Goran-Kovačik, who died in battle.
A teacher and children at their desks on the street.
Soldiers hand out sheets of paper to children.
Photo: A sentry at the cave where Tito’s headquarters is located; Tito at the headquarters in the cave.
People’s Army soldiers marching.
Soldiers inspecting weapons.
Tito in a marshal’s uniform against a rock.
Tito among the people – 20 years later.
On the building there is a banner with the NDP "1944-1964".
A group of war veterans are climbing up the mountain - to the cave where the headquarters was located during the war.
Tito and others in the cave.
Photo: Tito and others in the cave during the war.
Yugoslav flag on the mast - Wed.
A drummer and a town crier are walking down the street (during the war, town criers announced victories over the fascist troops).
Faces of old people - kr.
The population is going to a rally.
Fighters of the People's Liberation Army among civilians.
A priest is talking to the fighters.
Units of the People's Liberation Army are on the march - in a populated area, on the road, in the mountains (they are going to join up with units of the Soviet Army).
Soviet planes in the air.
Soviet artillery is firing.
Soviet soldiers are running past against the background of fires, a car with a gun is driving.
Soviet and Yugoslav soldiers are standing, having met.
Yugoslav fighters running down a Belgrade street.
Soviet tanks on the streets.
Guns from ships on the Danube firing at Belgrade.
Fighting on the approaches to Belgrade, street fighting.
Residents carrying the wounded through the streets.
A wounded Soviet officer on a stretcher giving instructions.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Street fighting in Belgrade.
Katyusha rockets being fired.
Liberated Belgrade from an airplane (October 20, 1944).
The population of Belgrade welcomes the liberators – Yugoslav and Soviet soldiers – various.
Residents of Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Trieste welcome the People’s Liberation Army.
A rally of thousands in the square dedicated to the liberation of Belgrade.
Josip Broz Tito walks along the street and then speaks from the podium.
Residents of Yugoslav cities and villages dance the folk dance Kolo (shot in various places).
A group of children, a boy playing the accordion.
Relatives greet soldiers who have returned from the war.
Monuments, details of monuments to fallen soldiers.
Tombstones of Soviet and Yugoslav soldiers.
Flowers.
Reburial ceremony of the remains of Soviet soldiers who died fighting for the liberation of Yugoslavia in Gornji Milanovice.
Rifle salute.
Wreath-laying ceremony.
Present: L.I. Brezhnev, Josip Broz Tito and others. L.I. Brezhnev places an urn with his native soil at the monument (October 2, 1962).
Fraternal cemetery.
Rose - kr.
Sunbeams in the forest - Wed, Poland.
Trees over the water.
Meeting of two former Buchenwald prisoners - a Yugoslav teacher and a Soviet sailor during a visit of Soviet ships to Yugoslavia.
Teacher among Soviet sailors.
Woman with a child in her arms.
Soviet sailor takes a child in his arms.
Faces of a woman, a man - kr.
People applaud.
Festive demonstration in Belgrade.
Branches of flowering trees.
Waterfall.
Landscapes.