Liberation of the Motherland (1974)

Newsreel from 1943: ice drift on the river, broken military equipment in the water.

German soldiers pass by, tanks move.

Production of shells and airplanes at Soviet military factories.

Workers at a machine tool.

Banners "Bread for the front", "We will give everything to defeat fascism", cars carry sacks of grain.

Female combine operators work in the field.

Tank assembly at a factory.

Trains with tanks move, Soviet soldiers pass by.

An officer looks through binoculars.

Soldiers lead captured Germans.

A column of tanks stands, an airplane taxis, soldiers take shells out of boxes.

Germany - Detachments of youth with swastikas pass by.

A German officer at a gun.

Teenage German soldiers stand.

Officers hand out military uniforms to soldiers.

German military leaders at headquarters near a map.

A meeting at the Fuhrer's headquarters, A. Hitler and others at the map.

Cartoon - a map of the Kursk Bulge.

A column of German tanks stands, German radio operators in camouflage suits at the radio, a soldier puts on a helmet, German soldiers get into camouflaged vehicles, German equipment moves.

Soviet military leaders F. Tolbukhin, P. Rybalko and others at the map at the Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters.

Soviet commanders at the command post.

The commander of the Central Front, General K. Rokossovsky, looks through binoculars.

Soviet tanks in the forest, the inscription on the tank "For the Motherland!" Soldiers with rifles before the battle.

The beginning of the Battle of Kursk - "Katyusha" rockets and guns are firing.

German planes in the air, German tanks are moving.

The German command is in position.

German soldiers are running to attack, throwing grenades, shooting.

Soviet commanders command "Fire!", guns and artillery batteries fire, explosions, soldiers run along a trench, a nurse bandages a wounded man.

German commanders look through binoculars.

German tanks explode.

Air battle - German and Soviet planes fly, fire, make turns, a damaged German plane falls.

Photograph of pilot Gorovets, who shot down 9 enemy planes in one battle.

Tank battle near Prokhorovka - shooting, explosions, Soviet tanks advance.

Military equipment and tanks are burning, dead men lie there.

Soviet tanks in a liberated city.

Residents greet soldiers, hug, kiss, give flowers.

Soldiers pass by with a banner and flowers.

Festive fireworks display in Moscow in honor of the liberation of Orel and Belgorod.

German soldiers stop and search cyclists, lead arrested people out of their homes.

Italy - A crowd in a square, people reading a newspaper about the capitulation of fascist Italy, soldiers with a white flag passing by, throwing a statue off the roof of a house, smashing a plaster head of Mussolini.

Soviet tanks moving, soldiers running.

Newsreel 1944-1945: Refugees pass by on the road.

German soldiers stop a car, check the driver's documents, put a stamp.

Germans search a house.

Soldiers and a peasant woman pass by a hut.

Herr Goering in his office - talking, smiling.

In the occupied territories, German soldiers break down fences, smash windows, drive away cattle, load wagons.

Young men and women being driven to Germany are put into freight cars, the wagons drive away.

A burning village, German soldiers ride through the village on horses.

A gallows in the square.

The surviving prisoners of the Klooga concentration camp near Tallinn are standing.

Corpses lie, stacked with firewood.

German soldiers are standing.

A soldier takes a child from his mother.

Gestapo chief Himmer inspects a concentration camp.

Soviet prisoners of war - concentration camp prisoners - are standing and lying on the ground.

Partisans are standing, the commander is taking an oath (synchronously).

A train explodes, a German car is burning, partisans are shooting at a fuel tank.

An inscription on a tree in German and Russian: "Attention!

Beware of partisans!" Germans are passing through the forest, partisans are fighting.

Partisans in a liberated village, women and children are coming out of basements.

Partisan detachment commanders S. A. Kovpak, S. V. Rudnev, A. F. Fedorov, A. N. Saburov - close-ups.

Photograph of the writer, partisan detachment commander P. Vershigora.

Partisans are tearing German flags and orders from the walls.

The decree "New Land Use Procedure" is burning.

Crossing the Dnieper - Soviet soldiers are running, building a pontoon bridge, boats with soldiers in the water, explosions, planes are flying, tanks are driving.

Soviet soldiers are running along the street of burning Kiev.

Soviet tanks in liberated Kyiv.

A woman is crying, kneeling, an old man is kissing a soldier.

Dead Soviet soldiers are lying, women are crying.

Soviet soldiers are holding children.

A ward with sick children, a nurse is giving a child something to drink.

German soldiers are walking along the street of the occupied city, tanks are driving by, factory pipes are exploding, there is a fire.

A German officer is talking on the phone, his hand is turning the handle of the detonator.

A platform with a device for destroying sleepers is driving by.

Soviet planes are flying, Katyusha rockets are firing, tanks are driving by.

Soldiers are walking through the mud, waist-deep in water, dragging a cannon.

The offensive of Soviet troops on the territory of Ukraine.

Crimea - sailors on a boat, S. M. Budyonny among the sailors, a ship's cannon, explosions on the water.

Newsreel 1944-1945: Soviet planes fly over the water, a pilot in the cockpit, bombs fall, explosions on the water.

A column of tanks is fired upon from the air.

Soviet soldiers in the city at their positions, running through barbed wire.

The capture of Sevastopol - soldiers shoot among the ruins, a soldier runs up the stairs with a Soviet flag, raises the banner.

Cartoon - Map of the Belorussian Front.

Hitler and German generals at the map.

Anti-tank obstacles in the forest.

German officers pass by. 1944 - The landing of Anglo-American troops in Normandy: warships sail, explosions on the water, soldiers disembark.

The beginning of Operation Bagration - a military echelon with soldiers and guns passes by, tanks move along the bridge.

General I.Kh.

Bagramyan and other military leaders enter the equipment room.

Female telegraph operators at work. I.Kh.

Bagramyan at the telegraph apparatus.

General I.D. Chernyakhovsky speaking.

General M.V. Zakharov and others at the map.

General K.K. Rokossovsky and other military leaders look through binoculars.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov and others pass by.

Katyusha rockets fire, explosions, soldiers at guns.

Planes in the air, bombs falling.

Tanks drive by in the forest, soldiers run.

Soviet soldiers march along the streets of liberated Minsk.

A cameraman films.

The sign "Minsk" in German.

A swastika and a fascist flag are thrown down from the roof of a building.

A Soviet flag is hoisted over the building.

Residents of Minsk greet Soviet soldiers.

A female postman walks down a city street.

Schoolchildren study in a destroyed classroom.

Construction of a house, workers carrying bricks.

Women repairing a hut.

Sheep, pigs and cows are unloaded from a train car.

In liberated Leningrad, part of a horse sculpture is being transported, the monument to Peter is being cleared of its boards, Hermitage workers are putting paintings in frames, and Rembrandt's "The Return of the Prodigal Son" is being hung on the wall.

Women are removing camouflage and washing sculptures in the Summer Garden.

Trolleys with scrap metal (old weapons, helmets, etc.) are passing by.

Restoration of the Dneproges - water is bubbling, welders are working, workers are driving piles.

Metal ingots in the trolleys, with the inscription "Donbass to the Front" on the ingots.

Soviet soldiers are running along the shore of the Baltic Sea, carrying guns on horses, planes are flying over the airfield.

Liberation of Riga - "Katyusha" rockets are firing, soldiers are running along a pontoon bridge.

Women greet Soviet soldiers: wave scarves, flowers.

Soldiers pass by with flowers.

Cartoon - Salute against the background of the USSR map.

Soviet soldiers pass by on horses, in tachankas.

An old man rings a bell, Soviet soldiers pass by with local residents, soldiers with flowers, children, people kiss and hug soldiers.

Salute.

Photos - Soviet soldier with a banner, border post with the inscription "USSR", etc.

A column of tanks passes in the mountains, local residents greet the tankers.