Dedicated to the rhythm of the rolling wheel (1941-1942)

A documentary about the work of German railway workers in the areas of the Soviet Union occupied by Nazi troops.

German trains with tanks, anti-aircraft guns, and trucks are heading east.

Aerial view of a moving train.

RAD soldiers repairing a railway.

Soldiers laying rails.

A destroyed power plant in the city of Vitebsk, the restored station begins to operate.

A train of restored Soviet carriages is moving along a snow-covered track, over a railway bridge.

A soldier carries an oil can and hands it to the driver in the cabin.

Remaking wheels on Soviet carriages.

Soldiers are traveling to the front in a train, waving their hands.

Soldiers in a carriage, they are drinking beer from bottles.

Memel, a poster is hanging on the wall of the building.

Trains are leaving for Reval, Riga, Libau.

Kottingen.

A girl is pouring coffee into the soldiers' pots.

Soldiers are getting water.

Soldiers in a carriage by the window, they are smiling.

The inscription on the carriage: "Warsaw-Kutno-Posen-Frankfurt-Berlin".

The switch rises, the train departs.

Ambulances near the train, they are moving along a flooded platform.

Stretcher with the wounded are carried into the train.

Reinforced security of the railway line in areas of Soviet partisan activity.

The track blown up by the partisans, a locomotive lying on its side, blown up by a mine.

A forest cut down by the Germans along the road.

A German outpost, a sentry near a dugout.

Trains with logs and cars are moving.

The inscription on the house "Block No. 53".

Traces of partisan activity: destroyed rails, fallen carriages.

German soldiers restoring the track.

A German armored train, camouflaged by branches, is moving along the rails, guns are on the platform.

A radio operator in a carriage.

Shelling from an armored train of a nearby village.

German planes guarding the railway line.

Aerial view of the area with a railway and a bridge over a river.

Trains with military cargo are moving along a snow-covered track.

A snowstorm is sweeping at the station.

The local population has been herded to clear the railway.

Trains at the station.

They are using a crowbar to knock ice off the iron parts of a steam locomotive, warming them up with torches and burners.

Trains are moving.

Construction of steam locomotives and carriages for a broad-gauge railway.

Finished locomotives on the tracks