Beware! Maoism! (1976)

Film director A. Medvedkin gives an interview (synchronously).

Portrait of Mao Zedong.

Newsreel from the 1960s: Mao Zedong gives an interview while sitting in a chair, his quotes are heard in the background.

View of the Earth from space.

Newsreel from the 1950-1960s: the aftermath of an explosion at a nuclear test site.

Deng Xiaoping's face.

Mao Zedong in a chair, with titles with his quotes above.

Medvedkin gives an interview (synchronously).

Map of China with plans to seize neighboring territories.

Photograph of Mao Zedong.

Map of China with plans to annex border territories.

Pages from a geography textbook for a Chinese middle school.

Map of ancient China.

Map with territories owned by ancient China.

Map of ancient China.

Newsreel from the 1960s: Mao Zedong comes to the podium and greets the assembled people.

Mao Zedong's face.

Panorama of rice fields in China, rural landscape.

A street in a Chinese city.

People walking along the street.

People riding bicycles.

A portrait of Mao Zedong on the wall of a palace in Beijing.

A festive demonstration in Beijing.

Mao Zedong applauds the demonstrators.

A column of demonstrators with a statue of Mao Zedong.

Medvedkin gives an interview (synchronously).

A photograph of Chinese students walking past a wall with portraits of Marx K., Engels F., Lenin V.I. and Stalin I.V. Photographs of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in August 1973 in Beijing.

Photographs of the members of the presidium of the congress during a regular meeting.

A photograph of Mao Zedong during the 10th Congress of the CPC. Photographs of the delegates to the congress.

Newsreel from the 1960s: views of Beijing neighborhoods (top).

People crossing the street.

View of one of the city streets.

Photograph of the presidium of the National People's Congress (NPC).

Photograph of NPC members voting.

Photograph of the Presidium of the National People's Congress (NPC).

Photographs of NPC members voting.

Portrait of Mao Zedong.

Newsreel from 1975: Meeting between Mao Zedong and F.-J. Strauss.

The Chinese national flag flutters from a flagpole.

Testing of the first Chinese atomic bomb in 1965. People in Beijing run after leaflets announcing the first nuclear tests in China.

The face of a girl.

People sorting through leaflets.

People reading leaflets and newspapers to each other.

People dancing on a square in Beijing.

Faces of children.

A nuclear explosion.

Young men and women marching in formation with a banner.

Children marching in formation under a banner.

Faces of children.

Children during a war game.

Children with toy guns.

A boy picks his nose with the barrel of a toy revolver.

Children with toy guns.

A flag with a swastika flutters.

Hitler Youth parade in Germany in the 1930s.

Boys beat drums.

Hitler Youth march.

Japanese flags wave as an officer conducts a lesson with Japanese children.

March of young Italian fascists in Rome.

Blackshirts watch the children march.

Young members of Italian fascist organizations march.

The Hitler Youth orchestra plays.

Streets of Nuremberg with ruins of houses in 1946. Chinese girls during a bayonet fighting lesson.

Young people during a naval training lesson.

Portrait of Mao Zedong on a junk.

Chinese soldiers in the water.

Young men and women during a military training lesson in the water.

A unit of the Chinese cavalry passes by.

View of the Forbidden City quarters in Beijing.

View of Tiananmen Square.

Bas-relief depicting Mao Zedong.

Photographs of Chinese workers.

Medvedkin gives an interview (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1975: a train near the Soviet border.

View of the corridor of a newly built underground fortification in Manchuria.

Bicycles in special storage.

Construction of a military facility in the Shenyang area.

Views of a bomb shelter in Shenyang.

A vegetable store and canteen in a bomb shelter.

Artists perform in the bomb shelter club.

People doing excavation work during the construction of bomb shelters.

Medvedkin gives an interview (synchronously).

Newsreel from the early 1970s: chemical defense training in the Chinese army, soldiers taking off their protective suits.

Interior view of an underground command and observation post.

Tank and infantry exercises.

Infantry in protective suits during exercises.

Measuring radiation levels.

Exercises by a dosimetrist unit.

Nuclear explosion.

NATO planes at the airfield.

View of the military port (from above).

A warship of one of the NATO countries.

NATO missile training launches.

NATO officers at the command post.

An aircraft takes off from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

An American bomber in flight.

NATO military exercises in Europe.

Combat equipment being transported on platforms.

View of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

View of Sverdlov Square in Moscow.

View of one of the high-rise buildings in Moscow.

Missile launch from a Soviet ship.

Medvedkin gives an interview (synchronously).

View of the Earth from space.

A sinking sailboat submerges into the water.

Newsreel from 1975: flags of the member states of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki.

View of the Conference hall.

Members of the delegations during the meeting.

Brezhnev L.I. speaks from the rostrum.

General view of the conference hall.

The heads of the delegations sign the documents of the Conference.

Brezhnev signs the documents.

The cameraman is filming.

View of part of New York.

American tanks.

NATO officers before the start of another meeting.

Tanks drive along a city street.

Mao Zedong in a chair.

Statue of Mao Zedong on a square in Beijing.

Panorama of a military cemetery.

Photograph of Mao Zedong.

Panorama of a military cemetery.

Photograph of one of the soldiers' cemeteries in Europe.

Photograph of a mother with a portrait of her son who died in the war.

Newsreel from the early 1970s: general view of a square in Beijing, a building with a portrait of Mao Zedong.

People on a city street.

People walking with children in a park.

Photograph of busts of Mao Zedong.

Newsreel from the 1970s: views of parts of the statue of Mao Zedong.

Chinese cavalry and tanks training.

Chinese peasants plough the land with a plow.

Soldiers put on gas masks while sitting in the back of a moving truck.

A column of Chinese armored vehicles on the march.

Photograph of peasants working in a rice field.

Newsreel from the early 1970s: a Chinese peasant working in a field.

Peasants use their feet to move a pump that pumps water into an irrigation canal.

Peasants' faces.

Manual labor of Chinese peasants in a field.

A tractor drives through a field.

Peasants plough the land with a plow.

Peasants working in the fields.

A book about the Dazhai Agricultural Commune in Russian.

Photo illustrations from the book.

Portrait of Mao Zedong.

Newsreel from the early 1970s: peasants use their feet to move a pump that pumps water into an irrigation canal.

A donkey moves a millstone, a woman sifts flour.

Peasants carry containers with flour.

Views of industrial enterprises built in socialist countries.

View of part of a city block (from above).

Construction of hydroelectric power plants in the USSR. Newsreel from the early 1970s: view of the Great Wall of China.

People walking along the Great Wall.

Panorama of part of a settlement in China.

A man sitting at the entrance to a hut.

A man eating rice from a bowl.

The face of an old man.

Views of a pre-revolutionary Russian village.

Russian peasants in a hut in the 1900s.

A boy putting on bast shoes.

A woman ploughing the land with a plow.

A peasant plowing.

Peasants sowing a field by hand.

Pre-revolutionary Russian rural landscape.

Women tying sheaves in a field.

Peasants threshing grain with flails.

Distribution of bread to hungry children in the early 1920s.

Earthworks at one of the construction sites of the first five-year plans in the late 1920s.

People hauling earth in wheelbarrows and carts.

Fragments of the painting "Petitioners at Lenin's".

Harvesting in the USSR. Combine harvesters in the field.

Ears of wheat.

Brezhnev L.I. during a visit to one of the collective farms.

Brezhnev's face.

Combine harvesters in the field.

Unloading threshed grain at the bulk point.

Newsreel from the second half of the 1920s: construction of the Turksib.

A caravan of camels loaded with sleepers goes.

Workers lay the rails.

A train moves along a temporary bridge.

Carts drive up to be loaded with earth.

Construction of the BAM. The face of a BAM builder.

A helicopter lowers a trailer to the ground.

Laying the railroad track.

Photograph of Mao Zedong.

Newsreel from the 1960-1970s: the daily work of Chinese peasants.

Peasants carry grain in baskets on yokes and transport it in wheelbarrows.

Chinese army exercises.

Mao Zedong in a chair in his office.

Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks during training.

Finished products at an automobile plant in Changchun.

Engine production workshop.

Peasants carrying wheelbarrows and baskets.

Trucks pulling out to the finished products site at an automobile plant in Changchun.

Construction of an automobile plant in Changchun in the 1950s.

Soviet and Chinese engineers discuss production issues.

General view of the plant construction.

Photo by Zhou Enlai.

Newsreel from the 1950s: construction of industrial facilities in China with the help of Soviet specialists.

Panorama of one of the industrial enterprises.

First smelting in the steelmaking workshop.

Workers applaud.

Chinese engineers and workers master production with the help of Soviet specialists.

View of part of the plant construction site.

Equipment manufactured at the Uralmash plant in a workshop of a Chinese plant.

Production process at new Chinese enterprises.

Panorama of the construction site of one of the plants.

Medvedkin gives an interview (synchronously).

Everyday life of workers and peasants in China.

People receiving food products with ration cards.

A woman with a child.

A woman's face.

A child's face.

Issuing rice and other food products with ration cards.

A saleswoman measures out fabric.

Customers are waiting in line.

People are giving the ration cards to the saleswoman.

People are receiving food products with ration cards.

A view of a part of a workshop in a Chinese weaving factory.

A photograph of a party agitator among female workers.

The production process in the workshops of Chinese factories and plants.

Newsreel from the 1960s: people vote en masse during the "cultural revolution" in China.

People read dazibao pasted to the walls on the street.

Works by the classics of Marxism-Leninism on the shelves of Chinese bookstores.

Sheets from Mao Zedong's quotation book.

Portrait of Mao Zedong.

Newsreel from the late 1950s and early 1960s: a view of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (above).

Guests from China greet the demonstration participants on Red Square.

A view of part of the demonstration.

A view of the mausoleum on Red Square.

The Chinese delegation carrying flowers goes to Lenin's Mausoleum.

Chinese delegates queue to go to Lenin's Mausoleum.

People on the streets of Moscow greet the Chinese delegation.

The Chinese delegation visits cattle breeders in Kyrgyzstan.

A view of Red Square during the May Day demonstration.

Chinese delegates greet the demonstration participants.

A view of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Faces of the Chinese delegates.

The May Day demonstration on Red Square.

Chinese delegates greet the demonstration.

Demonstrators walk past the mausoleum.

A meeting of the Chinese delegation at one of the industrial enterprises of the USSR. The Chinese drink wine from glasses.

Chinese delegates bring out a finished tractor from the workshop of a Soviet tractor plant.

Tractors on railway platforms destined for shipment to China.

The work of Chinese peasants.

Peasants walking along the road.

The face of a young peasant.

Photos of a regular session of the NPC. Newsreel from the early 1970s: Mao Zedong sits in a chair.

American air force exercises in Europe.

Political classes in the Chinese army.

Chinese soldiers put on protective goggles.

Nuclear explosion.

A regular session of NATO. General view of the meeting room.

The participants in the meeting are talking among themselves.

An anti-war demonstration in one of the European cities.

General view of the UN meeting room.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of China is speaking.

General view of the UN building in New York.

A meeting of the UN Security Council.

View of the UN building.

The participants in the meeting are applauding the speaker.

A representative of China is speaking from the UN rostrum.

An airplane of a foreign delegation at the Beijing airport.

A company of the guard of honor of the Chinese navy.

German Chancellor G. Schmidt gets out of the car.

Schmidt and Deng Xiaoping during a ceremonial banquet.

Schmidt during meetings with Chinese leaders, greeting Mao Zedong.

Schmidt's motorcade leaving the gates of the Forbidden City.

View of Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

US President D. Ford greeting Mao Zedong during a visit to Beijing.

Ford greeting Deng Xiaoping.

Mao Zedong greeting Ford and his wife.

Mao Zedong greeting a member of the American delegation.

Negotiations between the Chinese leadership and F.-J. Strauss in 1975. Portraits of Strauss.

Newsreel from 1975: Strauss greeting Mao Zedong.

Portraits of Mao Zedong, Strauss, Lunds J., Pinochet A., Rabin I., Hume D., Roberto H., Spinola, Almirante, Forster B., Smith J.

Portraits of Mao Zedong and reactionary and fascist leaders of Europe.

Portrait of Mao Zedong on the wall is replaced by a collage of portraits of reactionary leaders.

Newsreel from 1940-42: a burning building in Coventry, firefighters extinguish the fire.

People in a town square during a Nazi rally in Germany in the 1930s.

Nazi procession with banners.

People raise their hands in the Nazi salute.

Hitler returns the salutes from the train window.

People salute Hitler.

Hitler returns the salutes from the train window.

Wehrmacht soldiers marching.

People's faces.

Hitler studies a military operation plan on a map.

Hitler gives a Nazi salute.

Statue of Mao Zedong with his hand raised.

Hitler during a meeting with the military.

Hitler and Goering on the balcony of a building during a Nazi rally.

Rally participants salute Hitler.

A mass demonstration in Beijing in support of Mao Zedong.

A column of women is driven to be loaded onto carriages for shipment to Germany.

Officers check documents.

Soldiers close the doors of a carriage.

A departing train.

German soldiers drive people to be loaded onto carriages for shipment to Germany.

Officers stand by a carriage.

Hitler strolls along the platform.

A fascist rally in Portugal in the early 1970s.

A photograph of Portuguese dictator Salazar speaking from the podium.

Newsreel from the early 1970s: Salazar speaking from the podium.

A statue of Salazar in Mozambique.

A photograph of a protester being arrested in Greece.

Newsreel from 1973: Pinochet during a mass in a church.

The arrest of a Chilean patriot.

A concentration camp at a stadium in Santiago.

Pinochet inspects troops.

Pinochet's face.

Photographs of smiling Chinese peasants.

Photograph of field work, in the field there is a board with a portrait of Mao Zedong.

Newsreel from the late 1950s: view of the Moscow Kremlin.

A Chinese delegation is walking across the bridge.

View of Red Square.

Views of Moscow streets and buildings.

The author of the film is watching newsreels at the editing table.

Newsreel from the late 1950s: Muscovites greet the Chinese delegation, give them flowers.

A Soviet pioneer ties a red tie on a schoolgirl from China.

Chinese delegates applaud.

Guests from China during a tour of Moscow.

Workers of one of the factories greet the Chinese delegation.

View of the Earth from space.