Partisans. War behind enemy lines. The Unknown War №4 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaking (simultaneously in English).

Newsreel from 1941 - Guns firing, explosions, soldiers running, tanks driving by (retreat of Soviet troops).

German tanks driving, German soldiers walking.

Houses burning, planes flying, a village burning.

German soldiers in a village, a soldier nailing a sign.

German leaflets.

A German knocking down the door of a hut, leading a prisoner.

Germans milking a cow, washing a dog, feeding birds.

A burning village, corpses of killed civilians, a woman crying in the ashes, children in the ashes.

Residents of the burnt village joining the partisans.

A partisan detachment walking.

Photograph of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

Execution of Z. Kosmodemyanskaya.

Partisans forging weapons.

Grenades, cartridges, and rifles being handed out in a partisan detachment.

The partisan oath.

Newsreel - Partisan Oath (synchronously).

Explosion, destroyed rails.

Partisans lay a mine.

Photos of members of the youth underground organization "Young Guard" tortured by the fascists.

Women lay explosives, explosions.

Partisans fell trees.

A bridge is burning.

Partisan detachment of Minay Shmyrev (Father Minay) in the forest.

Detachment leader M. Shmyrev.

A German tank drives by, explosion, cannon fires.

A village is burning.

Partisans run, explosions, they carry a wounded man.

Partisan detachment commander Ignatov.

A nurse examines a wounded partisan.

Partisans lay mines, a train explodes.

Partisans pass by.

Kovpak's detachment in the forest.

Kovpak among the detachment members.

Partisan conference.

Winter landscape.

Partisans in the forest, in huts.

Partisans shoot at German soldiers, partisans run, Germans run.

Partisans fire from a captured cannon.

Captured Germans, captured German documents.

Funeral of the fallen partisans.

Documentary cameramen O. Reyzman, M. Sukhova in a partisan detachment.

A cameraman films partisans.

Everyday life of a partisan detachment - peeling potatoes, milking a cow, darning socks.

Forest hospital - a partisan is getting his teeth treated, a doctor in the operating room.

Newsreel - Leaflets and newspapers are printed in a partisan printing house.

Partisans read leaflets and newspapers.

Captured Germans are led away.

A German leaflet on a house.

A woman with a spinning wheel containing hidden partisan leaflets enters a house.

People read leaflets.

Young partisans in a detachment.

A boy is presented with an award.

Women and children in a partisan detachment.

Partisans evacuate children from occupied territories - children are put on a plane, children are on the plane.

Orphanage teacher Valentina Stepanovna tells (synchronously) the children about how she and a group of children were evacuated by partisans, about the tragic death of pilot A. Mamkin, who saved them. V. Shubin, A. Shevtsova, A. Lotko, M. Yatsunova and S. Korsikov, who were among the children saved by partisans during the war.

Newsreel - Moscow.

Photo by P.K. Ponomarenko, head of the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement, created in Moscow.

Newsreel - Forest.

Soviet plane flies, paratroopers jump.

Partisans meet pilots.

Partisans by the fire.

NDP on the "Veska" pole.

Partisan combat operations - partisans run, shoot, a dead German lies, houses burn, partisans tear down a German flag, German leaflets.

German tanks move, German soldiers walk.

Partisans fire guns.

Dead partisan.

German soldier throws a grenade.

German newsreel footage - Soviet prisoners are led, hanged.

German planes fly, tanks move.

A village burns.

Hanged, killed.

A boy cries, ashes, people cry.

Trial of traitors, execution of traitors.

The territory of Belarus liberated by partisans - Rudobelsk partisan republic: partisans plough the land, sow, classes at school, newspapers printed in the printing house.

Preparation of partisan reinforcements.

German newsreel footage - Occupied Minsk.

City streets, a German patrol checks documents.

Destroyed Minsk, German newspapers.

German generals pass by.

General V. Kube, Hitler's viceroy in Belarus.

An emaciated boy, hanged people.

Sending Soviet people to Germany - German soldiers close the door of a train car, the train departs.

A German newspaper with a portrait of General V. Kube, killed by underground fighters.

They carry out a coffin.

Underground fighters Osipova and Mazanik, who planted a bomb in V. Kube's house.

A memorial service in Berlin in connection with the death of General V. Kube.

Contemporary footage - Memories of the Chief of the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement P.K. Ponomarenko (synchronously).

Newsreel - Explosions, tanks drive by, soldiers run, planes fly.

The offensive of Soviet troops on the Kursk Bulge. P. K. Ponomarenko at headquarters near the map.

Partisans plant explosives in a railway embankment, explosion of a German train, burning carriages, partisans running, dead Germans.

German soldiers restore the railway bed.

Explosions on the railway, broken trains.

Newsreel - Partisan unit commander S. A. Kovpak and partisan detachment commissar Rudnev at a map.

Kovpak's partisan detachment marches.

Kovpak among the partisans.

Partisans build a crossing, cross a river.

Close-ups of partisans and partisan commanders.

Partisan combat operations.

Soviet troops and partisans in liberated Minsk.

Partisan parade in Minsk - command stands on the tribune, partisan detachments march past.

Ponomarenko on the tribune.

Meeting of former partisan veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk.

Newsreel - Partisans walk through ashes, a train explodes, trees fall, partisans shoot.

Caption: "Attention!

Beware of partisans!" (frames of the war chronicle alternate with modern filming of a meeting of partisan veterans).