Not about Stalin (1995)

Newsreel from the 1920s: an organ grinder in the yard, children listening to the organ.

A street shoe shiner in Berlin in the 1920s-1930s.

A woman sits down in front of the shoe shiner.

Shoe cleaning, the face of a client.

A street vendor at a stall.

A figure of a mechanical bell ringer striking a bell.

Actor Georgy Saakyan dressed as Stalin walks along Arbat.

Interview with I.V. Stalin's nephew, retired Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Alliluyev (synchronously and off-screen).

Interiors and views of Stalin's Near Dacha in Kuntsevo.

Interior of the summer living room (panorama).

Photograph of Stalin's wife N. Alliluyeva.

Views and panoramas of the dacha, it is snowing.

Interior of Stalin's office, panorama of the corridor and bathroom.

Visitors in one of the halls of the exhibition of fine art of the Stalin era, a sculpture of Stalin, a panorama of a wall panel.

Interview with V. Alliluyev about Stalin's construction of the Soviet state (synchronously).

Photographs of I.V. Stalin with K.E. Voroshilov, A.I. Mikoyan, S.M. Kirov.

Newsreel from 1935-1936: Stalin, M.I. Kalinin, K.E. Voroshilov, V.M. Molotov, L.M. Kaganovich in Uzbek robes and skullcaps applaud, standing in the presidium of the next meeting of collective farm shock workers, among the shock workers of agriculture.

Stalin takes off his robe and skullcap.

Stalin's face.

Faces of Stalin, Voroshilov and Molotov sitting in the conference hall.

Fragment of an art panel (panorama).

View from the window of Stalin's dacha in winter, a shaving set on the table.

Newsreel from 1934: delegates to the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) presenting gifts; Stalin in the back, in the presidium, accepting gifts.

Faces of Stalin and Molotov.

Stalin’s face talking to congress delegates.

Faces of Kaganovich and Kalinin.

Corridor at Stalin’s dacha leading to the conference room. G. Saakyan smoking a pipe.

Newsreel: Kalinin, G.K. Ordzhonikidze, Stalin, Kaganovich, Voroshilov, V.V. Kuibyshev, Kirov in the Kremlin in 1929. Photographs of Stalin and party and state leaders.

Photographs of Stalin with pilots at the Tushino airfield.

Interview with V. Alliluyev (synchronously).

Photographs of Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin with their wives during their vacation.

Photograph of Bukharin and Yenukidze with their wives on the Kremlin grounds.

Newsreel from the 1930s: a jazz orchestra playing, dancing couples in the hall of the House of Culture.

Participants of a New Year's event at a banquet table drinking to Stalin's health.

People with glasses in their hands listen to the toast (panorama).

Faces of participants in a New Year's banquet, banquet participants drinking from glasses.

People in a dance hall, hall decorations (panorama).

Dancing couples.

Performance of cabaret artists in Berlin. G. Saakyan, sitting at a table, discusses the merits of Georgian wines, speaks on behalf of Stalin (synchronously), drinks wine, smokes a pipe.

Newsreel from the mid-1920s: Red Army commanders in the Kremlin during a sports event for Kremlin cadets.

Blind fencing competition.

Faces of spectators.

Dressage competition on the square.

Bust of Stalin.

Gifts to Stalin on his 70th birthday.

Panorama and views of parts of a dilapidated mansion and a courtyard littered with garbage and fallen leaves.

Newsreel from 1949: a view of the city of Gori, where Stalin was born.

Views of the Stalin House Museum in Gori, interspersed with photographs of Stalin.

A procession of visitors entering the museum.

People entering the Stalin House Museum.

The interior of the museum exposition.

Faces of museum visitors.

People climbing up to the terrace.

Faces of brass band musicians on the day of the Vsevobuch holiday on May 25, 1919. Lenin V.I. greets the passing troops of Vsevobuch from the platform of a truck, the troops march along Red Square.

Military parade on Red Square.

Lenin's face.

Stalin and the leaders of the party and state march along Red Square on one of the May Day holidays.

Demonstration on Red Square.

Faces of Rykov A.I. and Tskhakaya M.G. A milk van drives along Berlin Street, the coachman rings the bell.

Teenagers carrying milk cans.

Street vending of hot sausages.

Faces of rally participants in Leningrad, Kirov S.M. speaking at the rally.

Zhdanov A.A. greeting rally participants from the tribune.

Demonstration on Palace Square in Leningrad.

Athletes marching along Red Square in 1924-1925. View of part of the rally (top).

Views and panorama of the Moscow Kremlin (top).

Stalin in the Kremlin in his office at his desk in 1937. Stalin during one of the meetings.

View of the Bolshoi Theater building.

Car traffic in the center of Moscow.

People on the streets of the city.

The leaders of the party and the state, headed by Stalin, come out onto Red Square and walk around the columns of participants in the rally in honor of the 13th Congress of the RCP(b) in May 1924, here - Kalinin M.I., Bukharin N.I., Zinoviev G.E., Kamenev L.B. Fragment of a wall art panel (panorama).

Interview with V. Alliluyev (synchronously).

Actor G. Saakyan in Stalin's costume against the backdrop of the Kremlin.

Newsreel from the 1930s: schoolgirl Lilia Liberman greets Stalin (synchronously).

Young Pioneers wave flags against the backdrop of newsreel footage of Stalin holding Gela Markizova in his arms (combined filming).

Panorama and views of the surrounding area and park at Stalin's dacha in winter.

Newsreel from 1935: Stalin, shock worker M. Demchenko among participants in the 2nd All-Union Congress of Shock Workers in the Kremlin in December 1935. Demchenko sets a record in beet harvesting.

Stakhanovites in beet fields harvesting.

Stalin in the Kremlin among participants in the Congress of Shock Workers.

Maria Demchenko talks to Stalin during a break in the congress.

Stalin among participants in the congress.

Bolshoi Theater actors at the shooting range during shooting lessons, the instructor checks their aim.

Ballerina O. Lepeshinskaya, opera soloists B. Zlatogorova, V. Barsova take aim at the target.

Inspection of targets after shooting.

Voroshilov K.E. speaks to the Red Army soldiers.

Faces of rally participants shouting "Hurray".

Cars drive up to the parking lot at the Tushino airfield before the start of the aviation festival.

Stalin and Voroshilov among pilots during one of the air parades in Tushino in 1933-1935. The face of A.M. Gorky.

Photographs of Stalin with his daughter Svetlana during their vacation in Sochi in 1933-1934. Interview with V. Alliluyev about Stalin's attitude towards children (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photograph of Stalin and N. Alliluyeva in a car during their departure from the Kremlin.

Views of the environs of Stalin's dacha in winter, alternate with photographs of N. Alliluyeva and Stalin's mother.

Newsreel from 1934: Stalin speaking from the podium in the Kremlin (synchronously).

Vacationers doing exercises in the Park of Culture and Recreation in sync.

The Völkischer Beobachter newspaper being published in a printing house.

A woman hangs a flag with a Nazi swastika on a balcony in Berlin.

Portraits of Hitler and flags with a swastika on the walls of buildings and an ancient fortress.

Views of Nazi rallies in Germany.

Nazi stormtroopers distributing newspapers.

Actor G. Saakyan sitting at a table, speaking on behalf of Stalin (synchronously).

Newsreel: view of the Bolshoi Theater hall.

Stalin speaking from the podium on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater during a pre-election meeting in 1937 (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1937: Stalin's speech at a pre-election meeting of voters of the Stalin District of Moscow at the Bolshoi Theater on December 11, 1937 (synchronously).

Hitler and Goebbels come out onto the balcony of the building during a Nazi rally in Berlin.

Hitler and Goering greet participants of one of the Nazi rallies from the balcony.

View of part of the rally.

Stalin and Voroshilov in the presidium of the 2nd All-Union Congress of Kolkhoz Shock Workers in December 1935 among the participants of the congress, interspersed with photographs of Stalin.

A singer performs the romance "Do not scold me, dear".

A photograph of Stalin and members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in a box at the Bolshoi Theater.

Photographs of Stalin during the work of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1930. Interview with V. Alliluyev about Stalin's personal life (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Reflection of actor Saakyan in a shop window with women's underwear.

Fragment of a wall panel.

Newsreel from the 1930s: members of the "Union of German Girls" applaud during a rally.

Hitler at a rally with his hand extended in a Nazi salute.

Hitler responds to greetings from a car while driving through the streets of the city.

Dancing people on Gorky Street in Moscow in the second half of the 1930s.

Stalin on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Faces of passing demonstration participants.

May Day demonstration on Red Square, Stalin, Voroshilov, Molotov on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Faces of demonstration participants.

View of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (from above).

Gorky A.M. on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Interview with V. Alliluyev about the institution of the family in the Soviet state (synchronously).

View of one of the high-rise buildings in Moscow.

Actor G. Saakyan dressed as Stalin gives parting words to the newlyweds (synchronously), faces of the bride and groom.

The bride on horseback.

Newsreel from 1934-1935: Voroshilov, Gorky, Stalin, Kalinin on the mausoleum tribune.

Participants in the physical culture parade carry a portrait of Stalin.

Washing the asphalt in Berlin with a watering machine.

Magazine covers in a kiosk.

People on the streets of Berlin.

A woman gets off a tram, passengers board.

Entrance arch to VDNKh, it is snowing.

Sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" at VDNKh, it is snowing.

Newsreel from 1936-1937: Stalin's portrait and banners with slogans being lifted by balloons.

Stalin and Maria Demchenko at the presidium of the 2nd All-Union Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers in December 1935, the face of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League Kosarev A.V. Kosarev delivering a speech (synchronously).

Images of Stalin on the wall in the apartment of actor G. Saakyan.

Saakyan in front of the mirror in the dressing room.

Newsreel from the mid-1930s: Stalin walks up to the podium of the mausoleum.

Fragments of demonstrations and military parades on Red Square.

Saakyan in front of the mirror in the dressing room quotes Stalin (synchronously).

Newsreel: a stand with books about Stalin in one of the libraries.

Stalin signs photographs for participants in a meeting of advanced collective farmers in the Kremlin, next to him is Ene Geldyeva.

Actor G. Saakyan dressed as Stalin on the street asks adults and children to express gratitude to Stalin.

Newsreel: Stalin during meetings and congresses in the Kremlin in the 1930s.

Hitler delivers a speech at one of the Nazi rallies, views of the stadium stands, faces of the rally participants.

Ride on amusement rides in Berlin.

Interview with V. Alliluyev about communism and fascism (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photographs of Stalin.

Newsreel: Hitler speaks from the rostrum.

Rally participants greet Hitler.

View of part of the stadium in Berlin during a Nazi rally, alternates with footage of one of the opposition rallies in Russia.

Girls greet Hitler.

Hitler signs autographs.

Stalin walks along the wall of the mausoleum, greets the military.

Stalin and Kirov on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Interview with V. Alliluyev about Stalin (synchronously).

Newsreel: participants in one of the physical culture parades of the 1930s march along Red Square.

Molotov and Kalinin on the Mausoleum tribune.

Demonstration of bayonet fighting techniques on Red Square by participants in the physical culture parade.

A column of the Russian Communist Workers' Party at a demonstration on Nevsky Prospect in St.

Petersburg.

Newsreel from 1920: Lenin V.I. and Krupskaya N.K. during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920, a photograph of Stalin.

Fragments of the physical culture parade on Red Square in the second half of the 1930s.

Panorama of the environs of Stalin's dacha in winter.

View from the dacha window, a lamp and a model of the Spasskaya Tower on the desk.

Newsreel: steamships on the Volga in the 1930s.

View of part of the coastal quarter of the city of Gorky.

Photographs of the opera singer Vera Davydova.

Vera Davydova during a rehearsal.

Newsreel: opera singer Vera Davydova performs her next part during a rehearsal.

Panorama of a winter park in the vicinity of Stalin's dacha.

A luminous window of the dacha.

Interior of a conference room.

Newsreel from 1939: a political briefing dedicated to Stalin's 60th birthday in one of the military units during the Soviet-Finnish War.

A political instructor conducts a talk.

View of the conference room of the Grand Kremlin Palace, participants in the ceremonial meeting give a standing ovation.

Voroshilov and Stalin on the presidium of the meeting.

People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR Aleksandrovskaya speaks from the podium with congratulations to Stalin on behalf of the Byelorussian people.

Voroshilov and Stalin applaud.

Classes with collective farmers on chemical protection and studying the material part of a machine gun.

A girl fires a machine gun.

Collective farmers in gas masks pass by.

Collective farmers take off their gas masks (panorama).

Actor G. Saakyan speaks on behalf of Stalin (synchronously).

Newsreel: preparation for harvesting on Soviet collective farms, agronomists in the fields.

The face of a tractor driver.

Harvesting with trailed combines.

Stalin, Kirov and Voroshilov on the deck of a steamship during a trip along the White Sea Canal in 1933. The lock gates open, a photograph of Stalin, Voroshilov and their entourage.

A sculpture of Stalin at the entrance to the canal.

Actor G. Saakyan dressed as Stalin on the street among passers-by and cars.

Saakyan dressed as Stalin talks to people on the street.

View of part of the communist rally on Palace Square.

Nina Andreeva speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).

Faces of rally participants holding banners.

View of the rally.

A rally participant holds a portrait of Stalin in her hands.

Newsreel: a German machine gunner at a barrier.

The face of a Wehrmacht non-commissioned officer looking through binoculars.

Berlin, June 22, 1941, interspersed with footage of a communist demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt in 1995. Goebbels enters his office before his radio address to the German people.

The faces of journalists.

The demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt, a portrait of Stalin in the hands of one of the participants.

Newsreel from 1939: Wehrmacht soldiers march in a chain along the street of an occupied city.

Jews are driven into a ghetto, interspersed with footage of a 1995 demonstration in St.

Petersburg.

Jews undress before being shot.

People dig their own graves.

A girl's face in the doorway of a train car.

A peasant sits on a cart.

A column of people being driven by the Nazis to a concentration camp.

German recruits receive uniforms.

Recruits in formation.

A recruit trying on a helmet.

A communist rally in St.

Petersburg.

Banners with slogans in the hands of rally participants.

Newsreel from 1941: the destruction of images and sculptures of Stalin and Lenin in the occupied territory of the USSR in the summer of 1941. A photograph of Stalin's mother.

Photographs of Stalin.

Interview with V. Alliluyev about Stalin (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Actor G. Saakyan dressed as Stalin and smoking a pipe against the backdrop of the Moscow Kremlin.

Saakyan dressed as Stalin talks to people on the streets of Moscow.

Newsreel: a symphony orchestra during a concert in Berlin in the early 1940s.

Faces of military personnel and NSDAP functionaries sitting in the hall.

Views of the concert hall, faces of the audience and musicians.

The audience stands up and applauds.

Faces of rally participants at one of the Moscow factories in June 1941. The speaker speaks from the podium.

Panorama of the rally (above), portraits of the Politburo members of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) over the heads of the rally participants.

Interview with V. Alliluyev about the USSR’s preparation for war (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1942-1943: Soviet cavalrymen ride past in formation.

Movement of cavalry units of the Red Army.

Faces of teenagers working in factory workshops.

The process of manufacturing ammunition, young workers at their machines.

Panorama of Stalin's dacha environs in winter, entrance to the dacha.

Newsreel from 1941: political instructor rouses Red Army soldiers to attack.

Infantry attack across a field during the Battle of Moscow in December 1941. Soviet infantry attacks a populated area, a Red Army soldier falls dead.

Machine gun crew fires.

View of the battlefield.

A medical orderly bandages a wounded man.

Attack on a populated area.

Photographs of Stalin and leaders of the party and state during various events in the Kremlin.

Newsreel: Stalin addresses Red Army soldiers during a parade on November 7, 1941 (synchronously).

A Red Army unit moves along a Leningrad street to the front during the blockade.

Views of streets and buildings in besieged Leningrad.

A sentry at the cruiser Aurora.

An observer at an air observation post scans the sky through binoculars.

An anti-aircraft gun in a trench.

View of a part of the frozen Leningrad cargo port.

Views of the embankments of besieged Leningrad.

Headlines of the Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper.

Panorama of the environs of Stalin's dacha in winter.

Interview with V. Alliluyev (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1944: destruction of Nazi symbols in liberated Minsk.

The red banner over the liberated city.

Rally in liberated Minsk, faces of the rally participants (panorama).

Residents of Minsk greet the soldiers-liberators.

Panorama of a walnut grove.

Portrait of Hitler on a table.

The burning Brandenburg Gate during the storming of Berlin in April 1945. Portraits of Stalin and Soviet commanders on the streets of destroyed Berlin in June 1945. Photographs of Stalin on the territory of the Kremlin in different years.

Photographs of Stalin with the leaders of the party and state during various events in the Kremlin.

Newsreel: girls singing on the way to logging sites.

Girls working in a logging site.

Girls working in logging.

Girls working on timber rafting.

Winnowing grain on a grain threshing floor.

A truck with new grain.

Haymaking and harvesting on a collective farm.

View of the front of a locomotive with the inscription "Joseph Stalin".

Another GAZ-M1 car comes off the assembly line of the Gorky Automobile Plant.

Car traffic on one of the streets of Moscow at night.

Faces of girls.

People get into a car.

Traffic of automobiles and public transport in Moscow at night in winter.

A driver shows documents to an officer of the State Traffic Inspectorate.

The face of a State Traffic Inspectorate officer, the face of Stalin.

The building of the Bolshoi Theater in the evening illumination.

Newsreel from 1949: views of the Bolshoi Theater hall during a ceremonial meeting in honor of Stalin's 70th birthday, Stalin comes out onto the podium.

The people in the hall applaud and give Stalin a standing ovation.

Stalin on the podium.

Stalin, Voroshilov, and the leaders of the party and state walk across the Kremlin grounds in the second half of the 1940s.

Stalin and his entourage ascend the mausoleum podium.

Panorama of the guest stands.

View of part of the mausoleum (from above).

Stalin walks along the mausoleum podium.

Stalin with his hand raised on the mausoleum podium.

A Berlin resident rummages through a load of soldiers' helmets and gas mask cases.

Children listen to an organ grinder play.

The organ grinder turns the handle of the organ grinder.

Fallen leaves in front of the entrance to the summer veranda of Stalin's dacha in Kuntsevo, interior of the summer veranda (panorama).

Actor G. Saakyan dressed as Stalin walks down the street.

Children on the asphalt.

Saakyan dressed as Stalin talks to passersby about current politics and the collapse of the USSR, people start arguing with Saakyan and each other.

Saakyan dressed as Stalin walks along Arbat.