Letters from the war period (1985)

The photographs show soldiers at the front writing letters home.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - front, battle, explosion, soldiers in trenches, shooting, soldiers running to attack.

The photographs show soldiers with letters, female postmen, the face of a soldier in a helmet.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - battle, soldiers crawling with ammunition, artillery firing, tanks on the field, guns firing, soldiers firing from a trench at a German tank, a German tank with a cross, a dead fascist, soldiers at the front receiving mail, letters, a female postman distributing letters to soldiers, soldiers reading letters, writing home, showing each other letters, photographs.

The frame shows soldiers' triangle-shaped letters.

Doctor of Historical Sciences Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt speaking.

The frame shows an album with copies of soldiers' letters, photographs, a man looking at the album.

Archive, shelves, boxes, an employee reading documents.

Schmidt speaking.

Shelves with boxes in the archive.

In the frame - the sister of Anatoly Belov, who died at the front.

Zoya Petrovna Belova is sitting at the table, taking her brother's war letters out of an old kerchief, talking about them.

On the wall above the desk are photographs of Anatoly Belov and his mother.

Moscow, Sretenka, the house where Belov lived.

In the frame - Zoya Petrovna Belova.

In the photographs - Tolya Belov and his friend Genya Kanasevich.

Various war photographs - Tolya and Genya with friends, classmates.

Close-up - Zoya Petrovna's face, a panorama of the New Year's tree in the apartment.

Close-up - soldiers' triangle-shaped letters.

Zoya Petrovna unfolds the triangles, reads the letters.

Close-up - the text of the letter.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - battle, smoke, soldiers in a trench, a Soviet plane in the sky, shooting, the Dnieper, a crossing, soldiers on rafts, explosions are heard, soldiers with machine guns are walking hunched over in a trench, explosions, soldiers are crawling with a machine gun, battle, soldiers are running, shooting from machine guns, smoke.

Forest, panorama of trees.

Zoya Petrovna is sorting through her brother's letters.

Close-up - a letter in her hands.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - winter landscape, field, snow, a soldier and a machine gun, explosions, soldiers in the snow before an attack, tanks are driving, soldiers are running.

Zoya Petrovna is reading a letter.

Close-up - the text of the letter.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - winter, a soldier at a machine gun, fighters in white camouflage suits run to attack, a wounded soldier falls, a military hospital, a nurse prepares instruments, doctors operate on the wounded, nurses bandage the wounded, the wounded are on stretchers, doctors and nurses are in the frame, there is a battle, soldiers in shelter, female medical instructors bandage the wounded soldiers, the wounded are evacuated, a field hospital, a wounded man is carried into a tent on a stretcher, a nurse takes care of the wounded, the wounded are loaded into cars and evacuated.

In the photo - Genya Kanasevich.

Zoya Petrovna leafs through letters.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - battle, explosions, a soldier fires a machine gun, soldiers run to the attack, soldiers in the trenches, a soldier fires a rifle, the wounded and dead fall, a dead German lies, soldiers run to the attack, panorama of the battlefield, smoke in the frame, dead Germans, battle, trenches, evacuation of a wounded man on a stretcher, soldiers fire a machine gun, machine guns, run to the attack.

In the photo - Anatoly Belov.

Zoya Petrovna Belova speaks.

School, class, geography lesson, in the frame - a geography teacher, Belov's nephew with students.

Students are looking at an album with photos.

The lights go out in the classroom, the teacher shows slides.

Close-up - the face of a student.

Various slides with photos - from the places of military glory of Anatoly Belov.

Faces of students.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - the command "Fire!", guns firing, artillerymen in the frame.

Close-up - a student's face.

The geography teacher, Belov's nephew, is speaking.

Faces of students.

The photographs show memorials, cemeteries, etc.

Students in the classroom, the geography teacher is standing near the table, showing something on the map.

Panorama of the students' faces.

A memorial plaque at the school, the list of dead students includes Anatoly Belov and Gennady Kanasevich.

Schoolchildren are walking down the stairs, in the center on the wall is a memorial plaque.

Rural landscape, in the frame - a weeping willow.

Akhmed Isayev in his office at the table, talking on the phone.

Men are talking in a cafe.

Close-up - rosary beads in his hands.

A memorial, a sculpture of a grieving woman.

Boys are laying flowers at the monument.

Stone sculptures - soldiers' faces.

Isayev is walking down the street.

A woman is in the house.

Isaev is walking down the street, past houses, near one house, people are meeting him on the porch, hugging him, etc.

Isaev and the men are sitting in a room at a table, talking.

Large - an article from the Kommunist newspaper.

In the photograph in the newspaper - Zaur Eminbeyli.

Isaev and Eminbeyli are sitting at a table, talking, looking at the film.

In the photograph - scientist Zaur Eminbeyli with colleagues in a group photo.

Photographs of a young Zaur Eminbeyli.

Various photographs from the Eminbeyli family archive.

Large - Zaur Eminbeyli.

Eminbeyli shows Isaev his father's letters from the front.

In the photographs - Najaf Eminbeyli (Zaur's father).

Najaf Eminbeyli's ID card.

Najaf Eminbeyli's letters from the front.

Various photographs from the war years from the family archive - Najaf Eminbeyli, his wife.

Azerbaijan, a picturesque mountain landscape - a panorama of mountains, hills, a lake.

On the table are triangle letters from the front, Isayev is holding a letter in his hands.

Akhmed Isayev is sitting at the table, sorting through triangle letters from the front.

Portraits-photographs of Zaur Eminbeyli's father and mother on the wall in the room.

A fragment of a letter from Zaur Eminbeyli's father.

In the photograph is a young Zaur Eminbeyli.

Panorama of trees, in the frame are oranges on bare tree branches.

In the photographs are Zaur Eminbeyli's mother and sister, Zaur himself in his school years.

Zaur Eminbeyli is reading his father's letters.

In his hands are family photographs.

In the family photographs are Zaur with his father.

At the table in the office are Zaur with his eldest son Najaf and Akhmed Isayev.

The men are sorting through letters on the table, talking.

Close-up - glasses in hands.

Close-up - an envelope of a front-line letter addressed to Zaur Eminbeyli, a fragment of a letter.

The photo shows Najaf Eminbeyli in military uniform.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - artillerymen move a gun, soldiers go on the attack, the commander gives the command, the gun fires, in the frame - artillerymen, soldiers, guns are fired, explosions are heard, in the frame - a gunner at the sight, a radio operator at the radio, soldiers bring shells, load the gun.

Close-up - the face of Zaur Eminbeyli.

Close-up - a fragment of a front-line letter.

The photographs show the village of Bogdanovka, the burial place of Zaur Eminbeyli's father, Zaur with the villagers near his father's grave.

The photographs show the ceremonial reburial of Najaf Eminbeyli's ashes in his homeland in Azerbaijan (in Kirovabad).

Cemetery, father and son Eminbeyli lay flowers on the grave of Najaf Eminbeyli.

Close-up - a photograph of Najaf Eminbeyli on a tombstone.

Memorial dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, the Eternal Flame is burning, in the frame - stone sculptures, soldiers' faces.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - a soldier fires a machine gun, an artillery gun fires, soldiers run to attack.

Close-up - a front-line letter in his hands, an old photograph with a caption.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - a soldier is sitting on the shore, reading a letter, a soldier in a helmet with a letter.

Various photographs of the war years - soldiers write and read letters during breaks between battles, a postman hands a letter to a soldier, a soldier with a sniper rifle, etc.