June 22, 1941. The Unknown War №1 (1979)

Moscow, Red Square (shot from a helicopter).

People on the stairs of the underground passage at the exit to Red Square.

Lenin's Mausoleum. B. Lancaster on Red Square (synchronously).

St.

Basil's Cathedral, Spasskaya Tower, queue to the Mausoleum.

Newsreel - June 22, 1941. Morning Moscow.

Rural landscape, horses on the river bank.

Industrial landscape.

Seaport.

German troops at the Soviet border on the eve of the attack on the USSR: German soldiers, a soldier smoking, tanks.

German soldiers crossing a river, planes at the airfield.

Border post with the inscription "USSR".

German planes bomb Soviet territory, guns fire, explosions, a village burns, planes dive.

The Germans break down border fences.

German tanks and motorcyclists drive by.

Killed Soviet soldiers.

Brest Fortress (shot from an airplane), houses are burning, German guns are firing.

German soldiers in the Brest Fortress.

Dead and wounded Soviet soldiers lie.

Air raid, burning village, people are running, a woman on the ashes, a woman with a child.

German tanks are driving by, planes are dropping bombs, explosions.

Pre-war years - work of industrial enterprises: factory workshops, steelworkers, miners, blacksmiths.

Classes at a school for working youth.

Streets of pre-war Moscow.

Bolshoi Theater.

Civil War in Spain: Hemingway in Spain, photo - P. Robson in Spain, Soviet planes in the sky.

Air battle.

Pilots of the German Condor Legion, German planes bomb the cities of Spain, the ruins of Guernica.

Painting by P. Picasso "Guernica".

Chronicle of the 1930s: Nazi parade in Germany, Hitler on the balcony, people greet Hitler, torchlight procession of fascists, burning books on bonfires.

Hitler's speech (synchronously).

The crowd shouts "Heil!" Hitler with industrial magnates.

Hitler and Krupp.

Tank production.

Nazis march, Hitler greets the parade.

Signing of the Munich Agreement - Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier pass and stand, the document is signed by Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier, Goering is present.

Chamberlain's return to London after the signing of the Munich Agreement.

The Moscow River.

The Kremlin (shot from motion), the Moscow River embankment.

A mansion on A. Tolstoy Street.

A lantern, a window, and doors of the mansion.

A chandelier, a round table.

Photo by Voroshilov.

The cover of the book opens, zooming in on the text in a foreign language (Voroshilov's address to the governments of England and France on concluding an anti-Hitler alliance).

Newsreel: August 23, 1939 - the arrival of German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop in Moscow.

Signing of the act of non-aggression between the USSR and Germany, the act is signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop, Stalin is present. 1939 - Germany's invasion of Poland: German tanks are driving, bombs and explosions are flying, houses are burning.

Soviet troops are entering the territory of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus - the people welcome the Soviet soldiers, an orchestra is playing, leaflets are flying.

Soviet and Polish soldiers.

Newspaper with the non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany.

Hitler and Goering stroll along the alley.

Cartoon - plan "Barbarossa".

Map, Hitler at the map.

Celebration of May 1, 1941 in Moscow - demonstration and parade, the government on the Mausoleum tribune: Stalin, Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kalinin.

June 22, 1941 - explosions, bombs flying, columns of German tanks, planes flying, German motorcyclists and infantry.

A German knocks out a window with a rifle butt, children and women in the ashes, soldiers shoot at civilians, a burning village, killed women and children.

German newsreel footage - German soldiers marching, Hitler laughing, a German cameraman filming a burning house, equipment driving by against the backdrop of burning houses.

The Germans leading Soviet prisoners of war.

Defense of the Soviet troops - soldiers firing machine guns, cannons.

A shot down German plane, dead German soldiers.

Tanks on the battlefield.

Fighting, carrying the wounded, explosions.

Ruins of the Brest Fortress, burning Brest. B. Lancaster speaks at the walls of the Brest Fortress (synchronously).

German newsreel - Hitler and Mussolini in the Brest Fortress.

Retreat of the Soviet troops - wounded Soviet soldiers marching, a woman giving a soldier milk to drink, wounded soldiers being carried.

Medical battalion.

A soldier drinking from a German helmet, a soldier smoking, soldiers listening to the commander, a detachment in a frontline forest.

Newsreel - Moscow, the Kremlin (shot from above).

Radio tower.

Stalin on the platform, drinking water from a glass.

Loudspeaker.

People listening, a woman wiping her eyes with a handkerchief (Stalin's voice in the background).

Stalin speaking (synchronously).

Women and men listening.

A line for newspapers, people reading a newspaper with Stalin's speech.

Soldiers reading a newspaper.

Poster "The Motherland Calls!" Volunteers are marching, soldiers are being seen off to the front, signing up for volunteers, columns of volunteers are marching, wagons with soldiers are leaving.

Militiamen are digging trenches, building barriers, setting up anti-tank hedgehogs.

A woman is setting fire to a rye field, sheaves are burning, a cart with refugees is driving by.

Soldiers are walking, military equipment is driving by, planes are taking off, guns are firing, explosions, German soldiers are running, German equipment is burning, wounded German soldiers, dead Germans, a burning German plane.

Soviet soldiers near a broken German vehicle, graves of dead Germans.

Newsreel - A soldier crawls, a soldier aims a rifle, German tanks advance.

Soviet soldiers fire a cannon, drag a machine gun.

Broken German cannons, a vehicle.

Soldiers take a box with German documents out of the vehicle.

A column of captured Germans marches.

Soviet commanders at a map of military operations, a wounded man makes marks on the map.

Signalmen crawl, explosions, Katyushas fire.

Air battle: bombs fall, a German plane burns, explosions.

Cannons fire, soldiers fire rifles and machine guns, Germans run.

German soldiers on tanks, Germans pass by.

Soviet soldiers go into battle.