Through the eyes of a friend (1970)

Wing of an airplane flying above the clouds – general.

Passengers in the cabin of an airplane during a flight from Moscow to Warsaw (the voice of a flight attendant reporting flight information in Russian and Polish is recorded).

An airplane taxiing at the airport in Warsaw.

Airport building in Warsaw.

Siren sculpture in Warsaw – general.

Reflection of Warsaw houses in the waters of the Vistula – general.

The city of Warsaw – general.

A panorama of the old fortress walls, a panorama of the stepped roofs of old houses.

The old town market.

A shop window in an old house.

Emblems of merchant shops on houses along old streets.

Narrow old streets.

A cabby driving along the streets of Warsaw.

An old lantern on the facade of a house – general.

Pedestrians calmly walk along the streets and street intersections.

A panorama of the city streets and squares – general. (summer).

The hands of a pianist playing a piece by Chopin.

Monument to composer Frederic Chopin in Warsaw, view of a pianist playing at the foot of the monument.

Sunday concert under the Chopin monument in Lazienki Park – the pianist plays, Varsovians listen.

Newsreel from 1939: Burning Warsaw, captured by the Nazis.

German troops march through the streets of Warsaw, which they have captured.

The residents of Warsaw look at the occupiers with fear and indignation.

Newsreel from 1944: The Warsaw Uprising in August: street shooting, explosions, fires.

Funeral of the remains of those killed in the fight to liberate Warsaw – women cry, lay flowers on the graves.

Fragments of the Chopin monument (the head of the sculpture, etc.), discovered by city residents in a pile of scrap metal prepared by the Nazis for melting down.

The head of the Chopin sculpture from the destroyed monument.

The broken pedestal of the monument in Lazienki Park.

Warsaw destroyed by the Nazis (from an airplane).

The restored Chopin monument in Warsaw – general, medium, run over, general.

Warsaw restored according to the old plan (from an airplane) – general.

Traditional Sunday concert at the foot of the restored Chopin monument.

A woman enthusiastically listens to music in the park – cro.

Landscapes of Lazienki Park – general.

Traffic in modern Warsaw – various.

Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin in Moscow – general (spring).

Moscow Kremlin – general (with h/t).

Monument to V.I. Lenin in the Kremlin – medium.

The building in the Kremlin where V.I. Lenin. V.I. Lenin's office in the Kremlin – Poland, general.

Desk in the office – Wed.

Clock in V.I. Lenin's office – Wed, red.

Pendulum of the clock – red.

Queue to the Lenin Mausoleum - general, red.

Newsreel from 1918-1922: V.I. Lenin.

Moscow.

Red Square.

May Day demonstration on Red Square during the First Five-Year Plan.

Newsreel from 1945: Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24 – Soviet soldiers throw fallen Nazi banners and standards at the foot of the Mausoleum.

Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.

Crying old women and a man, a man with a child at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – red.

Newsreel 1961: April 14. Rally on Red Square in honor of the meeting of the first Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Yuri Gagarin greets the participants of the rally from the Mausoleum tribune.

Streams of passers-by on the central streets of Moscow.

People of different ages and professions are walking.

Traffic on the streets – general, medium, small.

Reflection of the Kremlin cathedrals and other ancient buildings in the mirror surface of the glass of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses – general.

Kremlin Cathedral – short, zoom in.

Faceted Chamber – medium.

The building and ancient cannons displayed along its wall.

The Tsar Bell in the Kremlin – shot from above, zooming out.

Ivan the Great Bell Tower – top-down panorama, short.

Panorama of the Kremlin with distant surrounding perspective – general.

Panorama of St.

Basil's Cathedral (top-down).

Restorers working in the Kremlin Cathedral – various.

A craftsman is covering the dome with gold.

Top-down panorama of the Ostankino Television Tower, zoom in on the Seventh Heaven restaurant (exterior).

Visitors in the Seventh Heaven restaurant – panorama, medium.

Visitors look at Moscow from the restaurant windows.

View of Moscow from the restaurant – general.

Metro entrance – general.

Escalators of the metro.

Passages in underground metro stations.

A metro train passes.

Passengers in metro cars - reading books, newspapers, a girl with flowers in a metro car.

Passengers get off the car at the Varshavskaya metro station: the underground hall of the Varshavskaya station - PNR, kr, general.

Newsreel of the 1930s: Construction of the first lines of the Moscow metro - several work moments in different areas: laying tunnels, covering the tunnels with concrete slabs.

Female metro builders at work - Wed, kr.

Workers are laying a tunnel under strong streams of groundwater.

The builders of the tunnels of the metro line that they meet greet each other, enthusiastically congratulating each other on their labor victory.

Workers are rolling a trolley with the inscription "Our victory" along the through tunnel - kr.

In the modern metro, at night, a trackman checks the condition of the lines.

Working moments of the construction of a new metro line.

A vehicle with construction panels passes by.

The central dispatch office of Glavmosstroy – commissioning of the work rooms and halls.

The dispatcher is working, talking on the phone (synchronously).

Radiotelephones, selectors, and computing machines are working – medium, small.

Computing machine in action – small.

A vehicle with finished panels is driving to the construction site of residential buildings.

A crane is lifting a panel to the floor of a large building under construction.

Builders at work in different areas.

Road construction in a new residential area, a skating rink is working.

Commissioning of a new building in Moscow – general.

Motorway with a transport interchange – general. (with air traffic control).

Underground transport and pedestrian routes in different parts of Moscow.

The CMEA building – commissioning, small.

Kutuzovsky Prospekt with the high-rise building of the Ukraine Hotel on the bank of the Moskva River – general. (with h/t), driving onto Kalinin Bridge.

Kalinin Avenue – medium (with h/t).

Moscow – general (with h/t).

General plan – the Kremlin, high-rise buildings on Kalinin Avenue and a high-rise building on Vosstaniya Square (with h/t).

The city of Warsaw – general.

The amateur "Orchestra from Khmielnaya Street" is playing on the streets of Warsaw (synchronously).

Varsovians are listening to the orchestra on the streets, on the balconies.

Old women are listening – kr.

Passers-by on the streets of Warsaw – medium, kr.

Poland, medium.

Varsovians on the beach of the Vistula River – general.

Street cafe, Varsovians are relaxing in the cafe, listening to music, a song in Polish.

A child in a stroller (sitting) next to the cafe tables.

Children are playing in a car – medium, kr.

A child is sitting in a stroller, reaching out his hands to a spinning wheel – kr.

Warsaw motoring competition – Rally Monte Calvary in the suburb of Calvary; race participants before the competition, cars on the course.

Spectators at the race site, cars racing along a snowy road (winter rally).

Warsaw engineer Aleksander Rostotsky working on a book about the history of motoring.

Photographs of cars of different makes, from different eras.

A collection of car models, collected by A. Rostotsky – Polish People's Republic, cf.

Polish People's Republic of cars in the courtyard of the Warsaw Automobile Plant in Żyran – general.

A finished car of the Polish Fiat brand coming off the conveyor.

Assembling cars on a conveyor (various operations).

A passenger car coming off the conveyor belt of the Warsaw Automobile Plant – general, cro.

A worker behind the wheel of a new car – cro.

The streets of Warsaw are filled with passenger cars, buses and trolleybuses.

Traffic jams on the streets.

A taxi drives by.

A taxi driver with forty years of experience, Franciszek Stopa, is driving around the city – cro.

Traffic, filmed from a moving taxi.

Traffic reflected in the mirror of a car.

A passenger cab driver in the stream of cars on a Warsaw street.

Newsreel from the 1930s: (against the background of F. Stopa’s story about the past of Warsaw) Warsaw.

Krakowskie Przedmieście and Nowe Świate.

Men are photographing a smartly dressed woman at a billboard.

Women in long dresses and fur coats at a shop window.

A shop window with manufactured goods – medium, cro.

Taxi driver's hands on the steering wheel - ed. F. Stopa's speech is heard - a story about Warsaw in the first post-war years (simultaneously in Polish).

Newsreel from 1945: Warsaw: the first wooden bridge across the Vistula, built by Soviet sappers after the liberation of the city, Varsovians with their belongings return to the city across the bridge - ed.

Varsovians get into the back of a horse-drawn truck, this carriage with passengers travels through the city.

Residents of the city are sorting out the ruins of houses.

The first post-war tram, decorated with wreaths of flowers, goes along the street of the city, which is getting its life back on track.

Varsovians welcome the first tram, boys cling and hang on to the steps and buffers of the tram.

An overcrowded tram passes, passengers on the running boards.

The first female police officer Lodya regulates traffic.

Mass traffic in Warsaw, cycle rickshaws left over from the occupation on the streets of the city.

A cycle rickshaw passes – cf.

Modern traffic in Warsaw – general.

Policeman Anna Szymańska at her post; with movements of her hands and baton she indicates the direction of movement of cars and pedestrians.

Spectators on the sidewalks watch A. Szymańska at work, then congratulate her on winning the competition.

Men congratulate the winner, police sergeant A. Szymańska, and kiss her.

New, modern architecture, buildings in Warsaw – general.

The Polish People’s Republic.

Photo: projects for new buildings for Warsaw.

A meeting of the jury of the Mister Warsaw competition for the best house of the year.

New houses submitted to the competition.

A printing press prints the Zycze Warszawy newspaper, which organized the 1957 competition for the best house of the year.

The latest issue of the Zycze Warszawy newspaper with a report on the latest winner of the competition.

A stack of Zycze Warszawy newspapers.

A worker reading a newspaper with an announcement about the winner of the Mister Warsaw competition.

A finished residential building on Promyka Street, built according to the design of the winners of the architectural competition – the spouses Hana and Bogusław Hiliński – common.

The Hiliński spouses in their apartment in the new house built according to their design.

A group of Soviet filmmakers led by director L. Makhnach interview the couple at the Hiliński home and congratulate them on their victory in the competition (synchronously in Polish). B. Hiliński treats guests to wine.

The central streets of Warsaw in the evening – bright advertisements, traffic, pedestrians.

The monument to Copernicus – cf.

A street of the Old Town in Warsaw; there are no people, it is deserted and quiet.

A man is descending the stairs to the basement.

A concert café in a Warsaw basement, an orchestra is playing, visitors are listening to the music – common.

An orchestra plays under the direction of the famous Warsaw musician and composer Andrzej Kurielewicz – Wed, kr.

Moscow: a girl is standing in the street – kr.

A young man is waiting for a date – kr.

Young people are standing by the monument to Mayakovsky – general.

Poland.

Monument to V. Mayakovsky.

Shoppers are leaving the "Detsky Mir" store with purchases; with a teddy bear in a plastic bag, a toy car, etc.

A man is leading a baby with a toy in his hands.

Tourists who have come to Moscow are passing by – Wed.

Landscape of the Moscow region, taken from a moving train – general (summer).

Front of the first carriage of a moving electric train – average.

Passengers are sitting in the electric train, a young man is playing the guitar and singing.

A pond in the forest near Moscow – panorama of the treetops.

A river near Moscow.

A boy of about 5-6 years old is running through a forest clearing with a homemade bow in his hands.

Women are picking mushrooms in the forest.

A four-seater kayak with tourists is floating down the river.

Sunset over the river – general.

A boat with fishermen on the river at sunrise.

Tourists around a campfire among tents in the forest.

The streets of Moscow on a clear day (little traffic and passers-by).

Spectators at the stadium in Luzhniki – various.

Panorama of the stadium during the football match “Dynamo” - “Spartak” (Moscow) – general.

A meeting place for philatelists and collectors in Moscow – vari.

Men examine stamps, badges – individual items and collections.

Bird market in Moscow – general.

Aquarium fish, puppies, kittens, tame animals, parrots and other animals are bought and sold.

Amateur chess players play in the city square.

A column of buses headed by a car drives along the streets of Moscow – children are returning from a pioneer camp – general, categorical, moderate.

Parents and grandmothers greet children returning from camp – vari.

A show of Polish fashion at an exhibition in Moscow.

Young Muscovites look at the models – categorical.

Warsaw girls from a fashion house, fashionably dressed, cross the street in the wrong place on Kalinin Avenue; the policeman on duty returns the girls back to the crossing.

Soviet models demonstrate clothing collections created by fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev. V. Zaitsev with fashion models – red, medium.

Visitors in the halls of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Fragment of the painting by V. Surikov "Boyarynya Morozova".

The guide at the painting tells visitors about the historical event reflected by the artist on this canvas (synchronously).

Meeting of music lovers in the house where the composer Scriabin lived.

Professor Neuhaus plays the piano.

Scriabin's room.

Girls listen to music.

Portrait of the composer Scriabin – red.

Surviving streets of old Moscow, where writers and poets lived.

Old cast-iron fence of the yard.

Monument to A.S. Pushkin and A. Mickiewicz.

Leo Tolstoy Street.

Leo Tolstoy House-Museum.

Interior view of the house-museum - rooms, Leo Tolstoy's study, dining room. V. Mayakovsky's apartment, library, desk, the poet's last letter – red.

Sign on the door "Doctor A.P. Chekhov" - kr.

Visitors in the house-museum of A.P. Chekhov.

The writer's personal belongings.

Photo: A.P. Chekhov with actors of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Sign of the Moscow Art Theatre, panorama of the auditorium, curtain with the emblem "The Seagull" - kr., general.

Audience at the entrance to the Sovremennik Theatre, asking for "an extra ticket" - wed., kr.

A scene from the play "The Taste of Cherry" by Polish playwright Agnieszka Osiecka at the Sovremennik Theatre (synchronously).

The building of the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR on a summer evening - cf.

A panorama of the theatre hall and the stage, with Ekaterina Maksimova dancing on the stage.

The audience applauds.

Newsreel from 1945: The destroyed bridge over the Vistula in Warsaw on the day the city was liberated from the Nazi occupiers - January 17, 1945, Varsovians cross the river in a single file on the ice - general (with military equipment).

A dead soldier on a snow-covered fragment of the bridge's metal structure - general.

The monument to the heroes of Warsaw - "Warsaw Nika" - Panorama, short.

The pedestal of the monument with an inscription in Polish "To the heroes of Warsaw. 1934-1945." 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Warsaw from the Nazi Occupiers – Varsovians, a delegation from Moscow headed by the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council V.F. Promyslov, and a delegation from the Soviet Army at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Drummers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Changing of the honor guard at the tomb.

The delegation from Moscow and the delegation from the Soviet Army lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Wreaths with inscriptions on ribbons from the Soviet delegations – kr.

Eternal Flame at the Soldier’s Tomb – kr.

Newsreel from 1945: The Nazis destroy Warsaw in the last months of their stay in the city – the walls of multi-story buildings collapse, shells and bombs explode in the city – general, medium, kr.

Warsaw artist Tadeusz Kulisiewicz, a witness to the city in ruins, draws it from his memories – short Tadeusz Kulisiewicz – short Drawings by T. Kulisiewicz – Warsaw in ruins in 1945. Street of restored Warsaw – Poland, general Soviet pilot Sergei Gladun and other war veterans walk along a Warsaw street.

A forest near Warsaw where in 1944 Józefa Sawinska lived with her children in a dugout.

She saved the life of the seriously wounded Sergei Gladun, shot down by the Nazis near Warsaw. J. Sawinska with a Soviet film crew in the forest at the site of the former dugout tells how she helped a half-dead Soviet citizen hide from the fascists (simultaneously in Polish).

Sergey Gladun tells how he crawled exhausted into a dugout to a Polish woman, and how she, risking her life and the lives of her six children, nursed a half-dead Soviet pilot back to health and became his second mother (synchronously).

Portrait of S. Gladun at a young age.

Photo – presentation of the Soviet Order of the Patriotic War to Polish citizen Józefa Sawinska for saving a Soviet pilot during the war.

Photo: J. Sawinska, S. Gladun and others after the presentation of the award to J. Sawinska. S. Gladun and J. Sawinska, who met after the war in Warsaw. S. Gladun hugs and kisses his Polish mother. J. Sawinska says farewell words for recording on magnetic tape (she was late for the train to see S. Gladun off). S. Gladun listens to a tape recording of the farewell words of a Polish mother to her Russian son at home (simultaneously in Polish).

A monument to Soviet soldiers at a Warsaw cemetery – common.

The inscription on the monument slab in Russian and Polish: "Eternal glory to the heroic soldiers of the invincible Soviet Army who fell in battles with the Nazi invaders for the liberation of Poland and our capital Warsaw" – common.

Hands place a burning candle on the grave of a Soviet soldier – PNR, cf.

Children at the grave of a Soviet soldier.

Warsaw residents with bouquets of flowers go to the cemetery on the Day of the Dead, a day of remembrance that has been celebrated in Poland on the first day of November for several centuries.

Piotr Osinsky honors the memory of his comrades at the cemetery who died fighting for the freedom of their homeland.

Women and men light candles on the graves of their loved ones.

Burning candles on the graves (evening).

Women cry at the graves.

A girl at a grave (dark, candles burning).

General view of a cemetery on Remembrance Day.

Crosses on graves (evening).

Memorial plaques, commemorative slabs on Warsaw streets, on the bridge, at all the sites of the anti-fascist underground fighting and at the sites of the insurgents’ battles, flowers, burning candles at the plaques and slabs laid on the day of remembrance of the dead.

The Tree of Death in Warsaw, a girl at the tree (evening).

Flowers.

Burning candles under the tree.

Photo from 1945: the wedding of a young couple in the underground during the Warsaw Uprising.

A priest marries a couple.

Insurgents at the wedding ceremony.

The wedding ceremony at the Warsaw Palace of a young couple born after the war (1969).

The newlyweds leave the Palace and get into a car.

Warsaw girls pass by.

The girls listen to the record player – music can be heard: “Kazachok”, “Katyusha”.

A girl tries on a hat, another girl tries on beads.

The sign of the “Usmekh” café (in Polish).

Warsaw youth dancing to the music of "Kazachok" in the basement cafe "Usmekh" - various.

A youth orchestra playing in the cafe.

A competition for the best performance of a Soviet song; a girl sings the song "They tell me that I am not beautiful" in front of the microphone (synchronously).

The girls listen and smile - cr.

A young man sings the song "The girl saw off the soldier to the position" in front of the microphone (synchronously).

The cafe patrons applaud and listen - Wed, cr, general.

Autumn in Warsaw: the wind sways a tree branch - cr.

Students going to classes - the beginning of the new academic year in October - Wed.

Traditional celebration in connection with the beginning of the academic year at the Warsaw Polytechnic: students carry banners, the student anthem sounds in the hall, an honor guard at the banner.

Professors and teachers enter the hall, they are greeted with the anthem.

First-year students take an oath to protect the honor of a student of the Polish People's Republic, etc.

The professor congratulates the students on the beginning of the school year.

The Warsaw Nika monument – Poland, cf.

Anya Tarczynska, who served as the prototype for the Warsaw Nika, is walking down the street in a group of girls.

Anya is answering her lesson in class.

Girls are walking down the street in Warsaw in autumn.

Moscow in winter.

Monument to the defenders of Moscow (anti-tank hedgehogs).

Newsreel from 1941: Episodes of combat operations by units of the Soviet Army on the approaches to Moscow in winter, the infantry is advancing.

Explosions of shells on the battlefield.

German prisoners of war, taken prisoner near Moscow, are walking – general.

Poland across a field of destroyed enemy equipment on the approaches to Moscow in December 1941. Obelisk in Moscow in honor of the conquest of space – Poland, general, cf.

The guys are sliding down a hill at the foot of the obelisk.

In a winter park, they ride a troika of horses – Poland, general.

Muscovites buy New Year trees, carry them, take them home – different.

A young woman with a baby carriage on a walk in a park on a frosty winter day (jumping in the snow, warming up), a child with a shovel plays in the snow.

Children play in a winter park.

A skating rink in the park, adults and children of different ages on skates.

Stanislav Zhuk – a figure skating coach at an indoor skating rink trains the pair Irina Rodnina-Alexei Ulanov. I. Rodnina and A. Ulanov perform at one of the competitions, perform a program to the music of "Kalinka". S. Zhuk watches their performance.

A metro train passes along a ground line in Moscow.

A large group of skiers who arrived by metro get off, walk along the platform, and head towards the exit to the park.

The skiers are skiing down a hill.

One of the skiers is sliding down the hill to the swimming spot of the Moscow "walruses".

A sign for the winter swimming section of the "Red Proletarian" plant in the Oktyabrsky district, and the "Trud" sports society.

Fans of winter swimming are sawing the ice on the pond, making a hole in the ice for swimming.

Men and women are swimming in an ice hole, doing gymnastics in bathing suits, standing barefoot on the snow.

People in winter clothes are standing nearby.

The "walruses" are drinking tea from a samovar on the ice.

A girl in winter clothes is eating ice cream - kr.

A man in his underwear ("walrus") is lying on the snow.

Selling shashlik in the open air in the park.

Africans living in Moscow learn to ski in a park, fall, laugh, get up and try to ski again.

In a laboratory at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University, African students and students from other countries study in the labs. - diff.

Signboard of the Patrice Lumumba University - diff.

University building - gen.

A street in Moscow after a heavy snowfall.

A policeman regulates traffic after a snowfall.

Snow removal machines clean the streets of the city.

A machine and a conveyor are working, feeding snow from snowdrifts into the back of a truck.

Dump trucks dump snow into the Moskva River.

Traffic and pedestrians move along the streets of Moscow cleared of snow.

Pre-New Year trade in Moscow: a decorated Christmas tree in GUM, sale of Christmas tree decorations, customers choose toys and gifts for the New Year.

The seller decorates the display case and the counter - gen.

A tray with pears on the counter.

Showcases with sausages, canned fish.

Tray with olives in the display case.

Showcase of the "Sintetika" store - PRN from the street.

Passers-by walk past the shop windows of the department store.

Passengers in the lobby and on the escalators of the metro.

Young men with a guitar and a record player stand on the metro stairs.

Passers-by with flowers hurry to celebrate the New Year.

Wall clock: time 11 am 55 min. - close, departure.

Meeting of the New Year, 1970, in the family of Yuri Vizbor - hosts and guests - a Polish film crew (the authors of this film) and others at the New Year's table.

One of the guests talks about the meeting in 1960 in Kirovsk, on the Rasvumchorr plateau, where an apatite mine has now been developed (synchronously).

Geographical map of the USSR, zooming in on the Kola Peninsula - close.

In the room hang photographs taken by Y. Vizbor during the wintering at the Rasvumchorr tomb, where 18 Soviet pioneers of the apatite mine lived. Y. Vizbor talks about his wintering together with the Kirov winterers, plays the guitar and sings a song that he composed at the time for the tomb (synchronously).

Vizbor's guests listen - Wed, kr. Y. Vizbor's guest, pilot Valentin Akkuratov (he was a bomber pilot during the war) listens to the song, remembering New Year's Eve during the war - kr.

A little girl wakes up in fear - kr, freeze frame.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Muscovites descend the escalator into the metro, which served as a bomb shelter in 1941. People sleep on the platform of the Mayakovskaya station.

Children are sleeping in a bomb shelter - kr.

The sign "Shelter" - kr.

Children are dancing around the New Year tree in the bomb shelter.

Women in the factory workshop are making shells for the front - kr., Wed; they work on the machines instead of the men who have gone to the front.

Soviet women are packing New Year's parcels for the front-line soldiers - kr.

Tanks are leaving the factory workshop - general.

Tanks are moving along Gorky Street, heading to the front.

A truck with a New Year's tree in the back, intended for the front-line soldiers, is moving along the streets of Moscow, across the Borodino Bridge to the Kievsky railway station; Muscovites are standing by the road - builders of defensive structures.

Anti-tank hedgehogs are on the street, the Kyiv railway station is visible in the distance - kr., Wed.

Helmets and machine guns are hanging in the front-line dugout.

During a break between battles, soldiers are sitting at the festive table, receiving festive gifts - kommentarii.

The New Year tree is lit near the Detsky Mir building (night).

The New Year tree on the 50th Anniversary of October Square (near the Moskva Hotel building), at night.

The monument to the defenders of Moscow (anti-tank hedgehogs) – general, medium (winter, night).