Chronicle of the Revolution (1976)

Factory chimneys are smoking; workers at a rally – various shots.

People in the street (above), a tram passes by – wide shot, medium shot. V.I. Lenin is talking – close-up.

Demonstrators with slogans pass by; people sort out newspapers; people are laughing – medium shot, close-up.

Cars pass by – medium shot.

A sign with the Tsar’s coat of arms is knocked down from a building – wide shot, medium shot.

Political prisoners are leaving prison – medium shot.

Funeral of the victims of the February Revolution in Petrograd (the people say goodbye to the dead, a woman cries) – various shots.

Facades of shelled buildings – medium shot, panorama.

Demonstration, cavalrymen pass by; soldiers are standing; changing of the guard (near the police station); jubilant soldiers; various speakers speak at the rally – various shots.

Meeting of the Provisional Government – wide shot.

Barge haulers, peasants mowing; Women in the field at harvest; a child in a cradle; peasants at a rickety hut; workers in a mine, in a workshop of a metallurgical plant; loaders drag a log – different shots.

In the workshop of a military plant; ships at sea; Russian troops pass by – wide shot, medium shot.

Explosion, soldiers in the trenches, the wounded are led; a priest passes along the trenches; ladies bless the soldiers; an officer presents an award to a soldier – different shots.

Parade on Red Square – wide shot, medium shot.

Officers dancing with ladies on the deck of a ship – medium shot.

Workers in the street; women working at their machines; destroyed houses, a crying child – different shots.

Rally, leaflets being scattered; a teletype machine working; telegraph operators; a printing press – different shots.

Photo: V.I. Lenin; soldiers; participants in the revolution – medium shot, close-up.

Provisional Government – medium shot.

A city in Switzerland (roofs of houses, a clock tower, a small street) – different shots.

Photographs: V.I. Lenin; V.I. Lenin on the street of Stockholm; men writing at tables; peasants; soldiers; people's militia; soldiers in a dugout reading a leaflet; killed people; women – medium, close-up.

Cartoon: manuscripts of V.I. Lenin ("April Theses" and others) – close-up.

Newsreel of 1917: A train is moving; landscapes (from the train window), a large cemetery; children on the ruins of a house – different shots, panorama.

Russian soldiers pass by – medium shot.

A burning airplane falls; a ship sinks, sailors jump from board into the sea – medium shot.

A street of Moscow – medium shot.

A peasant ploughs in a field; workers in a metallurgical plant workshop – wide, medium shots.

People at rallies, different speakers speak; demonstration; members of the bourgeois government pass by – different shots.

People at the stock exchange; hands holding a shell; a ship, a tank; Bombs are dropped; explosions – different shots.

Cossacks ride down the street; military units are standing – medium shot, panorama.

People sign up for a government loan – long shot.

Representatives of Russia's allies pass by – long, medium shots.

Soldiers rock Kerensky – medium shot.

War: machine gun fire, soldiers in a trench – medium shot.

Demonstration in June 1917 (Petrograd); officers at the banner; troops are standing – medium shot, panorama.

Dispersal of the July demonstration (from above) – long shot.

Destroyed building: soldiers at train cars; prison building; sentry on a tower – medium shot, close-up.

The house, the room where V.I. Lenin lived in 1917 (in Razliv); landscape – long shot, medium shot.

Photo: Lenin near a hut in Razliv; workers; barricades on the streets – medium shot, close-up.

Newsreel of 1917: The building of the Bolshoi Theater, participants of the State Conference convened by the Provisional Government, climb the steps; General Kornilov is standing – medium shot, close-up.

The Kremlin, people on the street – long shot.

Factory chimneys are smoking; workers are walking; a speaker is speaking at a rally; demonstration – long shot, close-up.

A soldier throws a grenade; a destroyed building; German soldiers on horses; ships at sea; armored cars; a train is moving – different shots.

Workers are dismantling rifles; workers in trucks; soldiers are getting into carriages; workers are dismantling railroad tracks – different shots.

Soldiers are rocking Kerensky – medium shot.

Soldiers fraternizing at the front – different shots.

Soldiers riding on the roof of a train – wide shot, medium shot.

People on the street; women queuing for groceries – medium shot. V.I. Lenin – medium shot.

Soldiers at Smolny; sailors passing by; armored cars driving by – different shots.

Jubilant people – medium shot.

The cruiser Aurora firing; the Winter Palace being captured – wide shot, medium shot.

Moscow, the Kremlin – wide shot, medium shot (shot from above).

Kalininsky Prospekt – wide shot (shot from above).

Construction site; chemical plant; automobile plant assembly line; harvesting grain; rocket takeoff – wide shot, medium shot.

Builder; miner – close-up.

People on the city streets – medium shot, close-up.

Builders greeting a train (BAM) – wide shot.

Paintings depicting V.I. Lenin – medium shot, close-up.