The shadow over Europe (1938)

Documentary №65665, 4 parts, black-white
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Director:Ale[andre Robert. Aleksandr Rober
Camera operators:BrutRene. Cottart Louis. Bryu Rene. Kottar Lui

Reel №1

Danzig and the Polish corridor.

Polish corridor - the part between East Prussia and the rest of Germany.

Editions of Newspapers on September 5, 1933 All with the question: who belongs to the Polish corridor - Poland or Germany? "Parisien" from 29.09.1933: whether to revise the German-Polish border?

Danzig and the Polish corridor - those portions of Poland, which until 1918 belonged to Germany.

From Paris to Warsaw arrives the Director to make a film about the Polish corridor.

For the poles is not a "Polish corridor", and one of the provinces Pomerania, which has to be Polish.

Warsaw.

The types of town centre.

Krakow - industrial district of Poland.

Pipe, coal factory, furnace, steel.

Flights to Torun -a city that has access to the sea, divided the Germans into two parts.

View of the city from a helicopter.

Directions to the center.

The city hall of the 14th century, the area, meeting with the head of the city and region, it offers to pass through the province.

Pomerania belonged to Poland since the 10th century.

River.

The poles on rafts play cards

Key words

Germany, Poland, the media, industry, port, cinema

Reel №2

Train from Prussia to Pomerania.

Torun, custom.

The transport of German troops through the corridor.

Pomeranian lake.

Worship in Pomerania, the population profess the Catholic faith.

Soldiers in helmets.

Children play around them.

People in national clothes - despite German control of the region, the people have not forgotten the traditions of their ancestors.

Folk songs and dances.

The preparation of the female fire brigade.

After class the girls around the campfire singing folk songs.

Nature: rural views.

The wings of the mill, the stork's nest.

Workers in the fields, geese, sheep, weeding, pigs. 90 Proactiv population of the Polish Pomerania - Polish.

The population of the village welcomed part of the Polish army.

Dancing under brass band

Key words

Germany, Poland, custom, lake, soldiers, dancing, nature

Reel №3

Arrival in Danzig.

The barrier.

German officers check the documents.

Danzig - free city.

Views of the city.

A Monument To Guillaume 1. The tower of the 16th century with the types of Polish arms.

The Fountain Of Neptune.

River, bridge.

Central shops.

The Port Of Danzig.

Nazi flags over the buildings.

Gdynia.

Workers go with the song at the construction site.

Different types of work.

New town on the site of a fishing village.

The city: streets, houses, the Telegraph, the view from the helicopter.

Port.

Pier.

Ships.

Mechanisms for unloading and loading of coal.

The forest Board

Key words

Poland, Germany, port, workers, monuments, state symbols

Reel №4

Polish sailors.

Fleet.

Genre scenes of fishermen that on this earth have always said and will say in Polish.

Sea.

The annual Sea Festival.

Parade.

Departure of the ship.

On the beach - cottages ceremony vows to protect the sea.

The entire system with a flag on horseback enters the sea.

March with the song.

Demonstration of Polish military power: the planes in the sky.

Infantry, cavalry

Key words

Poland, holiday, sea, marine, parade, aviation, cavalry

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