Meeting on the Volga (1972)

View of Volgograd from the river.

French veteran R.Guy feeds pigeons on the square.

Panoramas of Volgograd.

Meeting of Soviet and French veterans.

French General Gombiez and Soviet General Porodko.

General P.I.Batov with his fellow soldiers and French guests.

General G.N.Zakharov.

French generals Valen and Pouyat.

Soviet General I.M.Chistyakov and French Colonel R.Marquis.

View of the obelisk at the end of the alley, a flowering flowerbed in the foreground.

Veterans carry wreaths.

View of the procession from the obelisk.

French wreath.

French veterans with regimental colors.

Soldiers salute, minute of silence.

The Eternal Flame is burning, wreaths are lying nearby.

Mamayev Kurgan, the Motherland Monument.

The procession moves towards the monument.

Fragments of the memorial.

The Eternal Flame in the Hall of Fame.

Soviet and French veterans stand around the Eternal Flame.

A man wipes away tears.

The names of the fallen are on the wall.

Veterans walk through the hall.

View of Mamayev Kurgan.

Veterans at a meeting of the friendship societies of France and the USSR. The meeting is opened by Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies Ivanov.

Colonel General N.A. Lomov makes a report. A.P. Maresyev.

View from the hall to the tribune. P.I. Batov speaks.

Chronicle 1941-1945: Tanks drive across the field.

Soldiers look through binoculars.

View of the city from the floor of a destroyed building, a soldier with binoculars.

German fighters.

Dropping bombs.

Explosion, collapse of an apartment building.

Fire in a house, lanterns in the foreground.

Sculptural group on the square, burning houses around.

Evacuation of the population.

A tower falls.

A house collapses.

People push cars.

Children with things.

People on the street.

A crying soldier.

Crying children.

German planes.

Anti-aircraft gun aiming.

Shots.

A damaged plane falls.

View of the ruined city from the Volga.

Attacking soldiers.

Soldiers throw grenades.

Explosion.

General Gombiez speaking.

Alternation: listeners in the hall, people speaking at the podium.

French partisan R. Penichon.

Veterans at the monument to V.I. Lenin in Volgograd. V. Alekseenko with his comrades-in-arms.

Veterans looking at old maps.

Chronicle 1941-1945: A group of French partisans sets off on a mission.

Train wheels.

Railroad tracks.

A partisan with a rifle.

A man detonates an explosive device.

A bridge is blown up.

Explosions on the railroad.

Soviet planes take off.

The Normandy-Niemen squadron, soldiers transmit a message by radio.

A soldier gets into the cockpit.

The soldier puts on his helmet.

The plane's engine starts.

The pilot is in the cockpit.

Alternation: fighters in the sky, the soldier looks up.

General Valen speaks.

Valen and R. Marchier visiting Colonel Dobrushin.

Soviet and French caps.

I. Afanasyev and Ya. F. Pavlov talk to people about the defense of Pavlov's House (House of Soldiers' Glory).

Pavlov's House outside the gates.

Chronicle of World War II: Soldiers climbing the stairs.

Soldiers firing from the windows.

Graffiti on the wall of the house.

Destroyed house.

Pavlov's House.

Deputy Mayor of Lyon M. Riviere and V. Ye.

Maslyaev walk around the city.

Chronicle of the war years: Architects drawing on a map.

People standing on the steps of a destroyed house.

Architects walking down the street.

Ruins of houses.

Children at their desks in a dilapidated school.

Aerial photography of the city.

Views of Volgograd.

Tractor plant, new equipment parked in the yard.

Reservoir and dam of the Volga Hydroelectric Power Station.

Irrigation system on the lawn next to the bridge.

View of the Volga, a motor ship sailing along the river.

People on the park alleys. M. Riviere and V. Ye.

Maslyaev approach a pedestrian crossing. V. Ye.

Maslyaev speaks at a meeting of veterans.

Veterans in the hall.

French veteran M. Paul is on the podium. A. P. Maresyev is speaking.

Chronicle of World War II: A combined attack of tanks and infantry.

Air attack.

A man with binoculars.

Artillery batteries firing.

Meeting of troops on the battlefield.

A column of German prisoners of war.

German troops marching through Paris.

View of Paris from above.

A column of German prisoners of war near Stalingrad.

Panorama of Paris.

Parisians building barricades on the streets.

View from the window of a house to an intersection.

People firing back with machine guns.

Soldiers running across the street.

Parisians meeting Soviet tanks.

Troops on the battlefield.

Soldiers hug.

Veterans applaud while standing.

French veterans are presented with soil from Mamayev Kurgan.

The French present a medal to Soviet veterans.

Intercut with veterans applauding, a medal in the museum. R.Gi at the microphone.

A fragment of an interview with R.Marquier. R.Shmitlen recalls.

Gerhardt's Mill.

Soviet and French delegates to the Volgograd Youth Meeting.

The mill building.

Young people at the construction site of the Museum of Military Glory.

Residents and guests of Volgograd on the streets of the city.

A view of the central streets.

A panorama of Mamayev Kurgan.