Sight №1 17.07.1992 (1992)

The program raises the issue of trophy funds in Russia and in the world.

Filming in a secret art storage facility in Sergiev Posad (former Zagorsk), where cultural valuables taken by Soviet troops from European countries during World War II are stored.

Panorama along the steps of the corridor.

An iron door with a lock.

Panorama through the iron bars along the details of the storage facility, enlargement of the paintings standing in a row.

Chronicle of 1945. The Soviet army is fighting in the streets of Berlin; German soldiers surrender; the flag is hoisted on the Reichstag.

Trophy brigades confiscate cultural valuables for export to the USSR. The sculpture of the Madonna and Child is placed in a wooden box.

Interview with Andrei Chegodaev, a participant in the mission to remove the valuables, custodian of the Dresden Gallery at the Pushkin Museum.

Chronicle of the Second World War: destroyed buildings, historical and architectural heritage sites in Kyiv, Minsk, Chisinau, Stalingrad, Leningrad Region, Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk.

Museums, churches, and imperial palaces (Tsarskoye Selo, Gatchina, Pavlovsk) plundered by the Nazis.

The Amber Room is mentioned.

Statistics are provided on the removal of cultural valuables by the Germans from the cities of the USSR. Academician Igor Grobar, black-and-white photograph and portrait.

Joseph Stalin greeting members of the Central Committee at the podium.

Black-and-white and color photographs of the paintings: "Uprising" (Daumier); "Portrait of Lola Jimenez"; "Carnival" (Goya); "Bather" (Degas, from the collection of Baron Khatvani); "Christ" (Dürer, Bremen Museum); fragments of the exposition "The Gold of Troy" from the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin.

Sergey Zhitneyev, Head of the Department of Culture and Education of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Talks about the problem of declassifying trophy valuables and their incomplete (at that time) inventory.

Train.

Close-up: wheels moving along the rails.

Chronicle: the territory of the Palace of Frederick the Great, now the San Souci Museum, address plan of the building, sculptural compositions, the hall of the palace.

Fragment of a copy of the Pergamon Altar (taken from Berlin) in the Hermitage; Priam's treasure (still frame).

Railway station (chronicle): departure of the Berlin-Mozhaisk train.

Pergamon Altar in Berlin (still frame).

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: panorama of destroyed Dresden.

Graphic sketches of storage facilities near Dresden, where exhibits of the Dresden Gallery were hidden from bombing.

Photograph of Colonel Alexander Rototayev, head of the operation to remove the paintings.

Interview by Andrey Chegodayev.

Tells about the visit of high-ranking officials to the exhibits removed from the Dresden Gallery and preserved in the Pushkin Museum.

Alexander Poskrebyshev (large) - Stalin's secretary.

Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev. "Literaturnaya Gazeta" from March 31, 1955 with the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the decision to return all the paintings to the Dresden Gallery.

Double exposure - riots on the streets of Berlin, the uprising in the GDR in 1953. Soviet tanks in the city.

Fragment of the chronicle (with the announcer's speech off-screen) the opening of the exhibition of paintings from the Dresden Gallery at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

Speech by the Minister of Culture of the USSR Nikolai Mikhailov and Deputy Prime Minister of the GDR Hans Loch.

Hall with paintings.

Close-ups of Paolo Veronese's "Madonna with the Cuccina Family", Titian's "Caesar's Denarius", Giorgione's (full name Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco) "Sleeping Venus", Rembrandt's "Self-Portrait with Saskia", Raphael's "Sistine Madonna".

Interview with Savely Yamshchikov.

Interview with Sergei Zhitnev.

Fragment of the exhibition of paintings from the Dresden Gallery in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (chronicle of 1955).

Uprising in Hungary in 1956. Publication in the newspaper "Pravda" about the joint statement of the delegations of the USSR and the GDR in support of the actions of the Soviet army in Hungary.

Sculptural compositions and paintings taken from Germany, at exhibitions in Soviet museums.

Among them are the portrait of Nefertiti, fragments of the Pergamon Altar.

Interview with Mikhail Afanasyev.

Talks about the captured libraries taken from Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War.

Panorama of the books stored in the library archives.

Interview with Konstantin Levykin.

Schliemann's Gold.

Interview with Klaus Goldmann.

Address plan of the Museum of Ancient Art in Belin.

The Trojan Hoard (Priam's Treasure), known as Schliemann's Gold (copies) on display at the Museum.

Documents on the transfer of the collection taken from Berlin to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

Interview with Alexander Shkurko.

Franz Koenigs (large photo).

Photocopies of paintings that were part of the Koenigs collection, which was declared lost.

Photographs from the site where the Allied forces discovered art objects taken from the captured territories of Nazi Germany in the salt mines of Austria.

Stalin and members of the Central Committee come out to the Mausoleum.

Stalin on the Mausoleum tribune.

Interview with Alexander Shkurko.

Address plan of the house of private collector Herzog in Hungary.

The armored door leading to the bank vault opens.

Interview with Laszlo Mravik.

The history of the removal of trophy art objects from Hungary.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War - the liberation of Budapest by the Soviet troops.

Storerooms of the Grabar Restoration Center.

Panorama of the paintings stored in the archives.

Interview with Alexey Vladimirov.

Close-up of the paintings: "Woman with a Pug" (Manet, Baron Hatvany collection), "Bather" (Degas), "Carnival" (Goya, from the Herzog collection), a painting by an unknown artist from a private Hungarian collection.

Close-up Packing act from October 10, 1972, certifying the transfer of part of the collection from the Moscow workshop to Hungary.

Interview with Endre Nagy.

Bidding on paintings and antiques at European auctions.

Interview with Alexey Rastorguev.

Leningrad (now St.

Petersburg).

Address plan of the Hermitage.

Exhibition halls.

The scandal with the trophy painting by Joachim Eitewael, taken away by a private individual and put up for sale at Sotheby's.

Interview with Alexander Shkurko.

Exhibition halls of galleries.

Large-scale paintings: "The Valley of Narni" (Johann Schirmer), "Art, Wisdom, Beauty" (Terwesten); "Society in the Park" (Dietrich (Dietrichi)), "Landscape with a Shepherd" (Caspar Dughet).

The story of the Soviet officer Viktor Baldin (narrated by himself), who discovered a collection of drawings from the Kunsthalle Museum (Bremen) in the count's estate of Königsmark near Berlin.

Baldin handed over his find (large in the frame) to the Shchusev Museum in Moscow, later the collection was transferred to the Hermitage.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow - address plan.

Irina Antonova, the museum director, gets into a Zhiguli, starts the car, and drives away.

Interview with Saveliy Yamshchikov.

Interview with Alexey Rastorguev.

Interview with Konstantin Levykin.

Interview with Vyacheslav Bakhmin.

Panorama of the Kremlin wall.

St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Interview with Sergey Zhitnev.

Interviews with passers-by.

Their awareness and attitude towards cultural values taken out of Europe are found out.

Summer plans for Moscow.

City streets, pedestrians, cars.