Italy.
Documentary about the train of the fascist organization APE /Aid, propaganda, Army/, which delivered gifts to Italian soldiers on the Eastern Front.
Rails receding into the distance.
A train is moving.
Parcels for soldiers and their contents: bags, bottles, cigarettes.
Wrapping parcels at the base.
Women pack bags.
Teenagers wrapping parcels.
People seeing off at the station, a crowd with posters and slogans.
Train departure from Milan.
Brenner border station.
The population welcomes the train.
Secretary of the fascist party Vidussoni hugs a boy from the crowd, smiles.
A soldier waves from the train window.
A soldier types on a typewriter in the carriage.
Landscapes of Germany and Poland flash by outside the window.
The station building in Brest-Litovsk.
A military train with soldiers passes by the APE train.
Jewish women sweep the station, remove trash from the tracks.
Platforms with trucks and soldiers are moving.
Baranovichi station.
German soldiers with a shepherd dog are standing on the platform.
German officers and nurses are walking to the APE train.
Nurses and soldiers from the train are singing the popular song "Lili Marlene" together.
Sisters are handing out water to the soldiers.
Soldiers with accordions are accompanying the singing.
Italian officers are walking by.
Faces of singing soldiers.
The train is moving on.
Belarusian villages and fields are outside the window.
Soldiers are playing checkers in the carriage.
Minsk station.
Vidussoni and officers are walking along the platform
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A cart with two men drives past a destroyed building, cars are parked at the sidewalk.
Soldiers are leading prisoners.
Ruins of houses on the outskirts of the city.
The train goes on.
Pukhovichi station.
German soldiers at the station.
Local residents are standing by the fence, teenagers, all barefoot.
People's faces.
Two women are pushing a sack on a cart.
Village houses, a truck drives by.
Children on the street, a girl is pouring water from a pump.
Residents are queuing for milk.
A panorama of the village.
The train sets off.
Villages flash by again.
An armored train thrown off the rails, a commentary on the actions of the partisans.
A railway bridge over the Berezina River, the announcer mentions Napoleon in this regard.
The train approaches Gomel.
A station, trains on the tracks.
Oil tankers.
Haystacks in the yard of a house.
A panorama of the ruins along the road.
Locals look at the train.
An overturned locomotive.
The train continues its journey.
Landscapes, stations, a caravan of horse-drawn carriages flash by.
Ndp. at the Beryoza station.
An airplane flies over the train Italy.
Arrival in Kharkov.
Panorama of the city from the train.
City station.
Buildings, city streets, street traffic.
Women traders with baskets on the steps of a house, German soldiers walk past.
Street traffic.
Houses, a cafe-snack bar, groceries.
Women are walking, an old woman with bundles and baskets.
Panorama of the city from the river.
View of the Kharkov Tractor Plant, left behind.
The train is on the way, Ukrainian villages flash by.
NDP on the building of the Zobinka station Italy.
Meeting the train by representatives of the Italian command, General Gariboldi.
Honor guard.
Unloading parcels, they are loaded into trucks.
Hospital for Italian soldiers.
Vidussoni with accompanying persons visits the wounded in wards, distributes parcels.
The wounded open gifts Italy.
Vidussoni flies by plane to combat units.
Views from the plane: river, bridge.
Industrial landscape of Donbass, city.
Landing.
Vidussoni jumps from a plane.
He is in the Italian part, smiling, joking, throwing parcels to the soldiers.
Visiting another hospital.
Photo of the Duce on the nightstand near the wounded.
Drawings of soldiers
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Italy.
Italian troops at rest, sitting on the ground, singing.
Vidussoni among the Alpine riflemen.
A bivouac in a field, riflemen are setting up a tent camp.
Trucks with soldiers are driving across the steppe.
Local population near huts.
Vehicles arrive at an Italian military unit several kilometers from the front.
A line of Alpine riflemen.
Vidussoni greets them.
A military orchestra is playing.
Dugouts in the forest, soldiers are coming out of them.
Military mail, a soldier is throwing a letter into a box.
Tents in the forest.
Troops are digging in, setting up a fence of logs.
Vidussoni speaks to them, presents gifts.
Vidussoni with soldiers passes through the communication trenches Italy.
The Don River - the front line.
Positions of Italian troops on the right bank.
Construction of shelters.
Soldiers dig in.
Vidussoni inspects a dugout.
View of the front line on the Don from an embrasure.
Carts on the road, go past a church, houses with local residents.
Vidussoni says goodbye to the soldiers.
Panorama of the Don from above, houses are visible.
Vidussoni passes through a trench, presents gifts to soldiers of the next unit.
Formation of Italian soldiers.
Vidussoni passes the formation.
Faces of soldiers.
A march sounds
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