The film centers on the fates of three foreign revolutionaries: Hungarian military man and writer Mate Zalka, Bulgarian pilot Zahariev, and German actor, songwriter and professional revolutionary Ernst Busch.
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Portrait of German singer Ernst Busch.
Newsreel from 1927-1930: E. Thalmann at a rally of the "Union of Red Frontline Soldiers".
Faces of the rally participants.
A drummer at a demonstration of representatives of the German left in Berlin.
The face of a naval officer.
Faces of German communists - participants in one of the rallies.
View of the rostrum of the rally, a speaker speaking from the rostrum.
Faces of demonstrators walking down the street, carrying the coffin with the body of a fallen comrade.
Police officers getting out of their cars on one of the squares of Berlin.
Dispersal of a demonstration by the police.
Participants of a communist rally carry red banners.
Thalmann speaking at a rally.
May Day demonstration in Berlin.
Faces of demonstrators.
Portrait of E. Busch.
Photograph of the Hungarian writer Mate Zalka.
Portrait of D. Furmanov - writer and commissar of the Chapayev Division.
Portrait of Mate Zalka in the 1930s.
Newsreel from the 1930s: young people buying books on the street.
View of part of the Gosizdat pavilion at the book market in Moscow.
Buyers at a stall with books.
Entrance to the book market.
People on the territory of the book market.
Schoolchildren looking at the pages of the books they bought.
People walk through the territory of the book market with the books and magazines they bought in their hands.
Propaganda trucks with posters and Gosizdat symbols drive by.
Portrait of Mate Zalka.
Newsreel from 1914: a watermill wheel turning.
Ships and a ferry on a river in Hungary.
Cattle on the deck of a large ferry.
Horse-drawn transport on the street of a town in Hungary.
Storks on chimneys.
Views of the streets of the town of Mateszalka, a minibus drives by.
Portrait of Mate Zalka.
Portrait of Mate Zalka's niece Laura.
Relatives of Mate Zalka's niece at home, Laura's daughter talks about the contents of Mate Zalka's letters to Laura, reads excerpts (synchronously and off-screen).
Portrait of Mate Zalka.
Photo of Mate Zalka among his comrades after being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army.
Newsreel from 1914-1915: French soldiers boarding carriages.
Departing train, soldiers waving from windows.
Troops moving along roads.
Austro-Hungarian troops at the front during military operations.
Russian soldiers in the trenches.
Austrian officers at an observation post.
Troops attack the enemy by fording water under artillery fire.
An airplane flying.
Bombs being dropped from an airplane.
Falling bombs, shells exploding.
Austrian troops moving in trenches.
Infantry rushing to the attack.
Photo of American Red Cross volunteer E. Hemingway in military uniform.
Newsreel: Austrian soldiers on the Italian front set up a movie camera with a device for filming from cover in a trench.
Portrait of Mate Zalka from the 1930s.
Newsreel from the 1920s: Hitler’s portrait on an election poster on a billboard.
A bartender pours beer into clay mugs.
People sit at a common table and drink beer.
Hitler A., Hess R. and Streicher J. at a Nazi Party event in the late 1920s.
Stormtroopers on bicycles and motorcycles set off for the assembly point.
Members of the Hitler Youth and stormtroopers march through the streets of the city.
Portrait of E. Busch.
A photograph of E. Busch on a document.
Newsreel from 1933: A train crosses the Soviet border.
Cars drive past the Moscow Kremlin.
An announcer from the Comintern radio station in front of a microphone.
The radio station employees connect the equipment.
Photograph of E. Bush performing a song.
Newsreel from 1936-1938: view of the radio tower in Moscow.
Faces of fighters of Republican Spain.
Faces of rally participants in Spain.
Rally of Spanish Republican naval officers.
Rally in Madrid.
Meeting of General Franco F. Franco's troops march through the streets of the city.
Tank and infantry fighting in the ruins of the city during the Spanish Civil War.
Burning buildings of Madrid during the fascist bombing.
People leave the destroyed quarter of Madrid.
Rally in the USSR in support of Republican Spain, presentation of flowers to Bulgarian pilot Zakhariev.
Photograph of Zakhariev and his comrades.
Zakhariev talks about his departure to Spain and a conversation with Dimitrov (synchronously and off-screen).
Newsreel from the 1930s: Dimitrov G.M. works in his office, writes, smokes a pipe.
Portrait of Zakhariev before leaving for Spain.
Newsreel from 1936-1937: Republican checkpoint on one of the roads.
Checking the driver's documents.
The car crosses the border of the checkpoint after checking the documents.
Telman Ernst -- German political figure Hitler Adolf -- German statesman and political figure Streicher Julius -- German statesman and political figure Hess Rudolf Walter Richard -- German statesman and political figure Franco Francisco -- Spanish military and statesman Dimitrov Georgy Mikhailovich -- figure in the international labor movement
Bulgarian statesman and political figure
1914-1915 1927-1930 1933 1936-1938 1983
Berlin Moscow Hungary Madrid Spain
Summer Autumn
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