Movie To the East. (The Unknown War №5, 1979)
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0:08:04To the East. The Unknown War №5 (1979)
Annotation:
About helping the front, about working in the rear during the Great Patriotic War.
Annotation:
Part 1 - German military enterprises: work in the workshops. Public life before Nazi Germany: people sitting in a cafe, Germans inspecting a ham warehouse, shop windows, people making purchases. Shots of destruction: destroyed, burning houses; a child crying, etc. Part 2 - A. N. Kosygin talks about organizing the evacuation, evacuation of factory equipment. L. I. Brezhnev supervises the evacuation. Loading machine tools onto a train. Explosion of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. Evacuation of the population. The Hermitage: frames without paintings. Soldiers transport a sculpture of Voltaire. Evacuation of collective farms on tractors and carts, herds of cows are moving, wheat fields are burning, etc. Destroyed railway stations and tracks. Part 3 - People clear the tracks. A camouflaged train rushes by. Construction of a chemical plant. S. Prokofiev and S. Eisenstein work during the evacuation. 4 h. - Aircraft designers Yakovlev, Tupolev, Ilyushin are working in their offices. Il-2 is being assembled in the workshop. D. F. Ustinov is speaking. Anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, and cannons are being tested. Tank designers Koshkin, Morozov, and others are working. Tank testing. Work in the open-hearth and aircraft shops. Children and young people are working at the machines. Female steelworkers at work. 5 h. - Women sew clothes, float timber, extract oil, catch fish with a net, etc. Women hand in jewelry, etc.; people hand in money. 6 h. - The story of Maria Oktyabrskaya. M. Oktyabrskaya's funeral. In a military hospital: a sister puts on a record, feeds a wounded man. Orphans adopted by new parents. Trains with tanks and cannons.
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B. Lancaster speaks against the background of the USSR map (simultaneously in English), shows the evacuation directions on the map.
Map.
German chronicle of the 1930s - Exhibition of German military equipment.
Military parade in Germany.
Launching of a German submarine.
Workshops of military factories.
Hitler and members of the military command.
German city - streets, shop windows, Germans sitting in cafes.
A German is singing.
Park.
They are loading boxes of apples, a grocery warehouse, shop windows, shoppers in shops.
Street, a violinist is playing, an orchestra is playing.
Germans are eating soup on the street.
A crowd of singing Germans on the street. 1941: Germany's attack on the USSR - destroyed cities, burning villages, killed, a child is crying, refugees on the roads, German soldiers are walking, German equipment is driving.
People are preparing for evacuation - people at the railway station, at the pier, waiting to be sent off.
A girl feeds chickens near a tent, a man reads a book.
People sit in camouflaged carriages.
A pile of abandoned things.
People sit on things near the railway tracks.
Reel №2
Wartime Moscow.
Photo by A. Kosygin and members of the Evacuation Committee. A. Kosygin speaking (synchronously).
Newsreel - Evacuation of factory equipment: machine tools being loaded.
Ukraine - Young L. I. Brezhnev supervises the evacuation of equipment.
Machine tools and tractors are loaded onto railway platforms.
Platforms with equipment are standing.
Explosion of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
Railway station, platform.
People with their belongings board carriages.
A train departs from Kievsky Railway Station.
Hermitage museum valuables are being prepared for shipment to the Urals.
Hermitage research fellow T. Sokolova speaking (synchronously).
Newsreel - Evacuation of the population from rural areas.
People travel in trucks and carts.
Camouflaged tractors drive by, driving cattle.
A burning wheat field, haystacks are burning.
People bury grain.
Convoys with household goods and people move.
Depot.
Freight trains move.
German planes bomb the railway.
A destroyed railway station.
Boarding a passenger train.
A wrecked train with tanks.
People clear the railway tracks of debris.
Killed anti-aircraft gunners lie.
Wrecked trains with equipment.
A dead driver in the truck cabin.
German planes are flying.
A passenger train is standing, a locomotive is rushing.
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Newsreel - people clear broken railroad tracks, drag away broken carriages, restore a railroad bridge.
Trains with equipment pass, a camouflaged train travels.
Anti-aircraft gunners in a carriage.
German planes bomb the railroad.
Engine driver, a train rushes.
Elena Chukhnyuk recalls her work as an engineer during the war (synchronously).
Chronicle - a train moves, the engineer looks on, sleepers flash by.
An airplane drops bombs, explosions.
People travel in open carriages.
A switchman.
Trains with equipment pass.
The switchwoman lets the train pass.
People look out of the carriages, the landscape, cows graze.
A woman with a child waves flowers.
Trains with equipment pass.
Unloading a train.
Installing equipment.
Construction of new factories in Siberia.
The ceremonial opening of a workshop.
Work at a chemical plant.
People build a tent city.
Families of settlers have lunch in a house. S. Eisenstein and S. Prokofiev work on the set of the film "Ivan the Terrible".
Stills from the feature film "Ivan the Terrible".
Reel №4
Contemporary footage - Monuments to the "tank", "Katyusha", and "Il-2 airplane". B. Lancaster at the monument to the "airplane".
Newsreel - Platforms with equipment protected from the rain.
Children under a tarpaulin.
Wind tunnel testing.
Soviet airplanes flying.
An airplane performing a "loop-the-loop".
Designers working: Yakovlev, Tupolev, Lavochkin, Ilyushin.
Workshops of an aircraft factory.
An airplane on the runway.
Pilots inspect holes in the fuselage.
A Soviet squadron flies.
Members of the party leadership of the military industry.
Young D. F. Ustinov speaks on the phone. D. F. Ustinova speaks (synchronously about her work as People's Commissar of Armaments during the war).
Newsreel - A train with guns.
A test rig for machine guns.
The military are testing a gun.
A "Katyusha" fires.
Tank designer Morozov.
Tank designers Koshkin and Kucherenko working with drawings.
Testing the T-34 tank.
Work in the open-hearth shop.
Shop of the aircraft factory.
Teenagers working at the machines.
Teenagers in the open-hearth shop.
Women go to the factory, work in the foundry, process shells.
Women in the open-hearth shop. F. Shuranova works at the blast furnace. F. Shuranova speaks (synchronously)
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Newsreel - Women sew felt boots and boots for the front.
Women chop down trees, carry logs, float timber.
A woman captain of a ship, women sailors work on a boat.
Women oil workers, women fishermen, women tractor drivers work.
Women pick potatoes and cotton in the fields.
There are wagons with bread, a camel caravan with cotton.
Collection of funds for the front - women hand over jewelry, valuables.
The receiver formalizes the receipt of valuables.
On the table are cigarette cases, spoons, rings, watches, pendants.
The population donates money to the Defense Fund - there is a queue, people hand over money, sign documents.
A troupe of actors from the Maly Theater donates a squadron of airplanes to the front, built with funds from the actors - the actors talk to the pilots, among them Yablochkina and Ryzhova.
A squadron of airplanes with the inscription "The Maly Theater - to the Front".
Tank column donated to the front by the Orthodox Church.
Patriarch Sergius with tankmen.
Tank column "Dmitry Donskoy".
Patriarch Sergius sees off the tankmen.
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Newsreel - Photo of M. Oktyabrskaya, who became the driver of a tank bought with her personal savings.
Photo of M. Oktyabrskaya's crew.
Funeral of Maria Oktyabrskaya, who died in the battles for the liberation of Smolensk.
Work in the shell production workshop.
Hospital.
A nurse puts on a record, the wounded listen to the song "Katyusha".
A nurse washes a wounded man.
A doctor prepares a donor.
A nurse feeds a wounded man.
Shell production workshop, girls work at the machines.
Donors donate blood for the wounded.
Children sit on things near the railroad.
Hospital, a doctor examines sick children, children in a ward.
Uzbeks take in orphans to raise.
Children in foster families.
Tank and airplane production workshops.
Women and children work.
Trains with camouflaged military equipment pass by: tanks, guns, etc.