One Thousand One Hundred Nights (1970)

Newsreel from 1941: pilot M.M. Raskova sits down at her desk.

Letters addressed to Raskova.

Raskova takes a letter out of an envelope and reads it; the newsreel alternates with photographs of female pilots of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Red Banner and Order of Suvorov Taman Regiment - Rudneva, Chechneva, Dospanova, Meklin, Dokutovich, Makarova, Sanfirova, Aronova, Gasheva and others.

Raskova, sitting at the table, opens a notebook and writes an order.

Seeing off the Red Army soldiers to the front, trucks with infantry leaving the enterprise territory.

The radio operator's hand on the key.

Photographs of female pilots.

A birdhouse outside the window on a tree trunk.

Photographs of female pilots of the 46th Aviation Regiment in formation at the airfield.

Photographs of the regiment commander E.D. Bershanskaya and commissar E.Ya.

Photograph of Bershanskaya receiving a report from squadron commander Amosova before a combat sortie.

Photograph of regiment squadron commander Olkhovskaya.

Newsreel of the summer of 1942: the propeller is turning.

The airfield duty officer signals with a flag.

A Po-2 night bomber begins its takeoff roll along the airfield and takes off.

Po-2s taking off from the airfield.

The sun is behind the clouds.

The door of the radio unit opens.

The radio operator receives the text of the radiogram.

The radio operator at work, the newsreel alternates with photographs of regiment commander Bershanskaya and the pilots receiving combat missions.

Po-2 aircraft on the runway of a field airfield before takeoff.

German bombers in flight.

Falling bombs.

Panorama of a burning village (top).

A burning house.

German tanks attack one of the farms and a windmill.

Po-2 aircraft taking off on a combat mission.

Starting the engine of an airplane.

German soldiers in an armored personnel carrier during the movement.

German infantry takes up a position, an officer gives commands.

The propeller rotates.

A Wehrmacht unit attacks a village.

The propeller and wheels of a Po-2 starting to take off.

A German machine gunner in a trench.

A Po-2 takes off from a field airfield.

The Red Army is fighting in the Caucasus, lifting an artillery gun barrel up a mountain using ropes.

Red Army soldiers lift fallen horses with artillery packs.

Raising artillery in the mountains.

Combat climbers climb a steep cliff.

Officers of the Alpine Jaeger units of the Wehrmacht at an observation post.

Soviet and German soldiers fight in the mountains.

Soviet tanks ford a river during their advance to the front line.

A Po-2 plane flies over a village.

A Po-2 night bomber in flight.

Preparing aviation ammunition at the airfield.

Pilots of one of the air regiments at the airfield during the receipt of a combat mission.

Before the flight, the pilots clarify the routes on the maps.

Female pilots in formation, reporting to the regiment commander.

A female mechanic reports to a female pilot that the aircraft is ready for flight.

The crews take their places in the aircraft cockpits.

The mechanic spins the propeller.

The aircraft during the engine start.

Photographs of female pilots H. Dospanova and Yu.

Pashkova.

A night bomber takes off on a combat mission.

Landscape at dusk at sunset.

Panorama of the area, river landscape (top), female pilots during the flight.

Dropping bombs.

Fires on the ground after the bombing.

Anti-aircraft guns firing.

View of the village (top).

Landing of the aircraft.

Stopping the propeller.

Female pilots after a combat sortie walk along the street of one of the villages in 1943. Female pilots enter the yard of a house.

A hand turns the handle of a gramophone.

Photos of pilot E. Nosal and her combat comrades.

Photos of female pilots during rest.

Photos of pilot R. Gasheva.

Photos of female pilots during breaks between sorties.

Newsreel from 1943: female pilots receiving a combat mission.

Clarifying the details of the combat mission route on the map.

Faces of female pilots (panorama).

Refinement of ammunition for an aircraft machine gun.

Hanging a bomb under the wings of a bomber.

Technicians load the machine gun of an Il-2 attack aircraft.

Preparing an attack aircraft for takeoff.

Female pilots head to their vehicles after receiving a combat mission.

Return of A.I. Pokryshkin from a combat mission in 1943-1944. His comrades congratulate Pokryshkin on another victory and rock him to sleep.

Fighters take off on a combat mission.

Fighters in flight.

The crew of a German bomber takes their places.

German Ju-87 bombers take off from the airfield.

German and Soviet aircraft in flight.

Air battles, the fall of downed and burning aircraft.

Il-2 attack aircraft attack ground targets.

Photos of the commander of the attack squadron G. Sivkov and pilot E. Ryabova.

Newsreel from 1943: tanks begin an attack.

Red Army artillery crews fire at the enemy.

Tanks attack with infantry support.

Soviet troops conduct military operations to liberate Kuban villages.

Residents of the liberated villages greet the Red Army.

An Orthodox priest, standing on the threshold of the church, blesses the passing troops.

Troops pass along the city street, women follow them.

Local residents treat Soviet soldiers and officers to wine.

Meetings of Red Army soldiers with their families in the liberated villages.

A Po-2 aircraft on the runway before takeoff.

Female pilots walk through the yard past the wall of a house.

The crew walks to the plane.

Loading an aircraft machine gun.

The surfaces and cockpit of a Po-2 aircraft.

Preparing the aircraft for a night flight.

The crew takes its places.

The crews head to the aircraft.

Starting the engine.

Checking the onboard weapons.

A technician checks the engine.

Photograph of Regiment Commander Bershanskaya near the aircraft during the mission assignment.

The instrument panel in the aircraft cockpit.

Newsreel: hanging bombs before a combat sortie.

Preparing aircraft for takeoff.

Photograph of pilot G. Dokutovich.

Newsreel: a signal flare takes off.

The pilots jump out of the back of an approaching truck and take their places in the aircraft cockpits.

Removing camouflage and covers from the aircraft.

The next crew departs on a combat sortie.

Night bombers in flight.

Fragments of the feature film: beams of air defense searchlights in the sky.

A pilot in the aircraft cockpit.

Photograph on the instrument panel.

German anti-aircraft artillery firing.

A pilot and navigator during a bombing run, interspersed with newsreel footage of the targets hit.

A landing plane.

Photographs of pilot Nosal and navigator Kashirina.

Photograph of a Po-2 plane with the inscription "Avenger of Dusya" on board.

Newsreel from 1943: presentation of the Guards banner to the 46th Air Regiment, Commander of the 4th Air Army Major General K.A. Vershinin delivers a speech.

Panorama of the regiment's formation.

The face of the regiment commander Bershanskaya.

Bershanskaya approaches the banner, kisses its edge, and accepts the banner from Vershinin's hands.

Faces of the female pilots standing in formation.

Bershanskaya, standing by the banner, reads the text of the Guards oath, Major General Vershinin stands next to her.

The female pilots in formation repeat the words of the oath.

The regiment under the guards banner marches in parade formation in front of the air force command, faces of the passing pilots.

Photos of the pilots during the receipt of their next combat mission.

Photos by G. Dokutovich.

Newsreel: performance by the concert brigade artists in front of the pilots.

Performing an acrobatic number, an accordionist playing, faces of the spectators.

The pilots applaud at the end of the number.

Night bombers taxi to the runway and take off.

Aircraft in flight.

Sound reconnaissance and target detection horns.

German pilots leave the rest room at the alarm signal.

German crews run to the planes.

The pilots take their places in the cockpits.

Takeoff of German night fighters.

Beams of air defense searchlights.

Episodes of a night air battle.

The altimeter needle goes down.

Landscape at sunrise.

Birds fly over the field.

Newsreel from 1943: a female traffic controller at a road junction near a road sign on the Taman Peninsula, trucks passing by.

Faces of marching Soviet soldiers.

Artillery firing at the enemy.

Soviet troops are fighting to liberate Taman and Crimea.

Soviet infantry attacks the enemy.

Torpedo boats and landing craft of the Black Sea Fleet on a combat mission.

Firing at German aircraft from the decks of boats.

Faces of Soviet naval officers.

Landing of troops on the Crimean coast.

Views of the coast of the Kerch Peninsula during the landing of troops, a German machine-gun crew firing.

Military operations on the Kerch Peninsula.

A marine carries a wounded comrade ashore.

Seascapes.

Fragment of the X film: a Po-2 aircraft at an airfield in the pouring rain.

Newsreel: boards under the wheels of an aircraft stuck in the mud.

The wheels of a truck skidding in the mud.

Technicians carry a bomb to the plane.

Photos of pilots N. Meklin and N. Reutskaya (alternating).

Po-2 in flight.

View of the sea surface (top).

German machine gunners fire at an air target, a bomb explodes in front of the front.

The bomber makes another approach to the target.

Panorama of the coast (top), dropping a load of ammunition for the marines.

The plane makes a turn.

Soviet troops are engaged in combat operations, the infantry is attacking.

Soviet soldiers in liberated Kerch throw a Teutonic cross from a pedestal.

Naval sailors on the shore during rest, an officer plays the piano.

Faces of resting Red Army soldiers.

An artillery crew rolls a gun to a firing position.

Views of the Black Sea coast in the area of liberated Kerch, the remains of barbed wire fences on the shore.

Apple trees in blossom.

Portrait of one of the pilots.

Newsreel from 1944 and staged scenes: the navigator clarifies the flight route on the map.

Aircraft at the airfield before another night flight.

Night bomber in flight.

Panorama of the sea surface.

Female pilot in the cockpit during the flight, instrument panel in the cockpit, excursion to the planetarium (alternation).

Fireworks display over Moscow in honor of the liberation of another city.

Muscovites watch the fireworks.

Views of Moscow at night, a sentry at an anti-aircraft gun.

Female pilot in the cockpit during a combat mission.

The crew of a German anti-aircraft machine gun fires.

Bullet tracers in the darkness of the night.

Portrait of Evgeniya Rudneva, who died while carrying out a combat mission.

Flowers on the branches of an apple tree.

Newsreel from 1944 and staged scenes: a wrecked German artillery piece after the end of hostilities in the Crimea.

Wrecked boats and other ferry equipment on the seashore.

Seascape at sunset.

Night bomber in flight.

Landing lights are on.

Escorting captured German soldiers (staging).

A captured German soldier lights a cigarette and gives a written testimony.

Loading ammunition into an airplane.

Hanging a bomb before takeoff.

Il-2 attack aircraft before takeoff (top).

Female pilots see off attack aircraft pilots on a combat mission.

Photographing pilots in front of an airplane.

Panorama of part of an old estate.

Views of the park on the estate grounds.

Photograph of female pilots T. Makarova and V. Belik.

Newsreel and staged scenes: the movement of Soviet troops along the roads of East Prussia in 1944-1945. Commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front K.K. Rokossovsky at the front in a trench clarifies the situation on a map with staff officers.

Soviet troops on the march.

Cooking in a field kitchen while moving.

Panorama of barbed wire fences and a destroyed railway bridge.

Soviet soldiers during a rest between battles, life and everyday life on the front line.

A soldier performs a song, accompanying himself on the button accordion.

Officers on the front line in dugouts celebrate the 27th anniversary of the October Revolution.

Preparing bomb sights before takeoff.

Photographs of pilots O. Sanfirova and R. Gasheva.

A night bomber taking off.

German anti-aircraft gunners firing at an aerial target, burning buildings, an airplane during bombing (alternating).

The burning wing of an airplane.

Photograph of R. Gasheva, a parachute in the sky, trees and bushes in a night forest, a flashlight beam (staging, alternating).

Panorama of tree crowns with bare branches, a monument on O. Sanfirova’s grave with her portrait.

Newsreel from 1945 and staged scenes: a panorama of the blocks of destroyed Warsaw (above).

Views of the streets of destroyed Warsaw.

A group photograph of female pilots.

Photograph of pilot I. Sebrova before takeoff on May 8, 1945. Po-2 aircraft over Berlin, views of half-destroyed Berlin districts (top).

Panorama of part of Berlin in May 1945 (top).

One of the Berlin streets after the end of the fighting.

Fading searchlights.

Group photographs of pilots.

Po-2 night bombers in flight.

Aircraft in the sky, lined up in the form of a five-pointed star.