Memory (1994)

Laying wreaths at the Eternal Flame in Kazan.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, guests and military personnel in the guard of honor at the military memorial.

Cadets of the military school and veterans lay a wreath at the memorial.

A war veteran, Lieutenant Colonel I.Sh.

Shaidullin walks along the edge of the forest with the director of the film.

Panorama of a part of Kazan, Shaidullin and the film director are walking along the river bank, the director is flipping through a notebook.

Drawings of a German soldier in a notebook taken by Shaidullin as a trophy during the war.

Shaidullin flips through a notebook, Shaidullin's face.

Portrait of a woman in a notebook.

Newsreel of 1942: the faces of German soldiers marching through Soviet territory alternate with sketches of faces from a notebook.

Infantry columns of the Wehrmacht on the march.

View of one of the streets of Kazan through the windshield of the car.

Photo of people listening on the street to the message about the beginning of the war, the faces in the photo.

Newsreel of 1941: a girl waves a handkerchief to a passing train with guns on platforms.

Red Army soldiers in the car, the slogan on the wall of the car.

Panorama of a field with burning sheaves.

Burning bread on the vine.

Refugees are leaving their homes.

The funeral of the dead civilians.

Burning residential buildings.

The Red Army Horse Artillery unit is climbing up the hill.

The crossing of troops on the pontoon bridge in 1943-1944.

The text of the "Letter of the Tatar people to the front-line Tatars", published in the newspaper "Pravda".

A fragment of the text of the letter.

Photos of the presentation of tanks and aircraft built with funds collected by the workers of the Tatar ASSR to the military units of the Red Army.

Newsreel of 1942-1944: production of ammunition at one of the military factories.

Production processes in factory workshops, manufacture of weapons.

The faces of the workers standing at the machines.

Children and teenagers who replaced workers who went to the front work on machines.

A banner with a slogan at one of the machines.

Assembly of a combat aircraft.

A Soviet bomber is flying by.

View of enemy positions (from above).

Bomber "PE-2" on a pedestal in front of the main building of the plant in Kazan, a commemorative inscription on the pedestal.

Portraits of Tatar war heroes - Soslanova, Gafiatullin.

Panorama of the overcast sky, the sun breaks through the clouds.

Portraits of the great Soviet Tatar poet Musa Jalil and his comrades in the underground struggle against fascists.

Photo of the guillotine in Berlin's Moabit prison, where Musa Jalil was executed.

Sheets of Jalil's manuscript in the Tatar language.

Newsreel of fighting and street battles in 1942-1943.

Street fighting in Stalingrad.

A sniper is firing from the ruins.

The Red Army soldiers are fighting in a position in a destroyed building.

Portrait of General Gani Safiullin.

Red Army soldiers eat out of pots while resting in the trenches.

Panorama of the funeral rally.

The faces of the rally participants.

General Ya.D. Chanyshev delivers a speech at the funeral of his comrade-in-arms.

The faces of the funeral participants.

The truck with the body of the deceased leaves at the place of the funeral.

Bas-relief on one of the military memorials.

Shaidullin gives an interview, talks about one of the combat episodes (in Tatar, synchronously).

Shaidullin examines front-line photographs.

Newsreel of 1943: infantry rises from the trenches to attack.

View of a part of the battlefield with attacking tanks and infantry.

View of a part of the summer forest.

A rusty sapper shovel stuck in the trunk of a birch tree.

Grass grows through a pierced soldier's helmet.

Graves of soldiers in one of the cemeteries of Kazan, who died of wounds in Kazan hospitals during the Great Patriotic War.

The names of the deceased on the tombstones.

View of a part of a military burial.

The bones of a fallen soldier in the grass.

A fighter of the search party picks up a pierced helmet.

Newsreel of 1943-1944: Red Army soldiers push a truck out of the mud during a thaw.

Soviet troops are fighting, infantry is on the attack.

The bloated corpse of a German soldier floats along the Dnieper.

A seagull flies over the water, ships in the cargo port of Murmansk.

The Eternal Flame is burning.

Sea surf, a scuba diver gets ashore with a mine discovered by him during the war.

The body of the mine on the coastal rocks.

View of the seashore.

Searchers extract the remains of fallen soldiers from the ground.

Washing the human skull.

The remains of soldiers of the 2nd shock Army found in the Meat Forest.

Bones of skeletons laid in coffins for solemn burial.

The face of one of the veterans.

An episode of the newsreel of the fighting.

The burial ceremony of the remains of the fallen soldiers, the coffins are carried to the burial place.

Grave grave panorama and mourning rally, coffins are placed in the grave.

Search engines at work.

A human skull found at the battlefields.

Search engines extract the Red Army soldier's personal medallion.

The study by search engines of the discovered personal data of fallen Red Army soldiers.

The opening of a personal medallion, the face of the search engine.

Processing of the paper tape found in the medallion with the data of the deceased.

Drawing up an accounting card.

Panorama of a part of the square in Kazan, view of the newspaper editorial office building.

An employee of the editorial office is talking on the phone.

Editorial staff process the information received about the residents of Tatarstan who died in the war.

Photos of relatives of fallen heroes with their portraits in their hands.

The cover of the "Book of Memory".

Rural landscape (panorama).

The building of the House of Culture in the village of Baltasi.

Wives, sisters and widows of veterans at the tea table.

Veterans discuss the publication of the district "Book of Memory".

Shaidullin's face.

Veterans discuss the "Book of Memory".

The photographer is shooting.

Photos of veterans of the village of Baltasy discussing the district "Book of Memory".

One of the Orthodox churches of Kazan.

People walk in the park, the view of the fountain.

Meeting of the President of Tatarstan Ms.

Shaimieva with veterans and military, Shaimiev welcomes each veteran personally.

Panorama of the solemn event in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Kazan Suvorov School.

The faces of the Suvorov soldiers standing in line.

Shaimiev on the podium next to the heads of the school.

Parade of veterans - sons of regiments on the parade ground of the school, Suvorov soldiers in the ranks.

A military brass band is playing, the faces of the musicians.

Newsreel of 1945: an artillery crew is firing at the center of Berlin.

Soviet artillery during street battles in Berlin.

Inscriptions made by Soviet soldiers on the walls of the Reichstag.

General Chanyshev with officers at the Victory Column in Berlin.

Meeting of the victorious soldiers at the railway station in Kazan.

General Safiullin speaks to fellow countrymen.

Presentation of flowers to Safiullin.

Presentation of flowers to veterans in Kazan during the celebration of Victory Day on May 9, 1994, the faces of veterans.

Shaimiev's face.

Newsreel of 1945: views of the Volga coast.

People get off the boat, among them is a demobilized front-line soldier.

The front-line soldier walks, leaning on a stick, through the field to his native village.

A front-line soldier goes to the village.

There is a formation of soldiers in raincoat tents and helmets during the celebrations during the celebration of Victory Day in Kazan, Shaimiev among veterans.

Cadets of the military school pass in parade formation past veterans and Shaimiev standing among them.

The face of a veteran, awards on a ceremonial tunic.

Shaimiev, veterans and their relatives lay flowers at the Eternal Flame.

A military brass band is playing.

Faces of veterans, military awards (panorama).

Front-line photos and photos of special events on the table.

Shaidullin gives an interview about a captured notebook with drawings (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Front-line photo of Shaidullin on the table.

Flowering cherry.

Pigeons fly out of the cage in the dovecote, sit on the roof of a neighboring house.

Panorama of cherry trees and bushes.

White pigeons on the roof of the barn.

Flowering cherry.

Panorama of a part of the park in Kazan.

The sun breaks through the clouds.

Festive fireworks over Kazan.

Collage of portraits of Tatarstan residents - heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

Fireworks in the sky over Kazan.