The film about the Great Patriotic War is dedicated to the war in the Arctic.
1 part - Landscapes of the Arctic. The sea. Soviet and German ships firing, coastal artillery fire. Soviet anti-aircraft guns firing at a German plane. 2 parts - The daily life of German soldiers: cooking dinner, sitting by the fire, etc. German planes bomb Murmansk. The submarine is handed over to the crew. N. Lunin blows up a German ship. Admiral Golovko awards a sailor. Sailors read letters. 3 parts - The daily life and service of German soldiers. Soviet soldiers travel in reindeer sleds, storm a village. Work in the Murmansk port. The icebreaker Sibiryakov leads a convoy of ships. Soviet sailors drop depth charges. 4 parts - Allied ships at sea. A British plane drops bombs on a German submarine. The ship's guns fire at the German plane. The burning plane falls. The ship sinks. Rescue of sailors from the sinking ship. Unloading of Allied ships. 5:00 - Maisky, the USSR Ambassador to Great Britain, presents Soviet awards to English pilots. Marshal Meretskov watches the battle. 6:00 - The city of Pechenga. Captured German soldiers. Norwegians greet Soviet soldiers. A monument in Murmansk.




B. Lancaster speaking at the map (simultaneously in English).
Port in Murmansk. B. Lancaster speaking at the pier (simultaneously in English).
Cemetery in Murmansk, where Soviet, American and British soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War while escorting allied convoys are buried.
Monuments on the graves of an American sailor and a British artilleryman.
Monument to Soviet soldiers, a list of the names of the fallen on the monument.
Sailboat at sea.
Barents Sea - coast, seagulls over the sea.
Reindeer running.
Sea in ice.
Polar bears jumping from an ice floe into the water.
A ship moving among the ice.
Newsreel from the 1930s: A polar explorer hoists a flag with a portrait of Stalin. I. Papanin with polar explorers at the flag.
Polar explorers at a tent, I. Papanin with a dog.
Newsreel 1940: German cruiser in polar waters, German plane flies over the mountains.
Military factories in Germany - metal casting, shells, guns, tank production. A. Hitler greets a naval officer.
Newsreel 1941-1945: A flag with a swastika flutters, German ships sail in the area of the Kola Peninsula.
A German sailor looks through binoculars, guns are aimed at the target, German naval guns fire, explosions on the water.
Soviet sailors prepare guns for battle, Soviet guns fire.
The commander gives orders to the sailors, coastal guns fire.
Battery commander Captain Kosmachev looks through the device, guns fire.
Kosmachev examines the remains of the ship.
A nurse drags a wounded man, wounded Soviet sailors, a doctor bandages a wounded man.
German planes in the air, anti-aircraft guns firing, the commander giving orders, anti-aircraft gunners at the guns firing.
A burning German plane falls.
A Soviet sentry at the flag.
Sailors of the Northern Fleet pass by.
Northern Fleet Commander Admiral A. Golovko at the table.
A sentry at the guns.




Newsreel 1941-1945: German alpine riflemen cut barbed wire with nippers.
German soldiers run, guns fire, explosions on the water.
German landing.
A German tank drives by, German guns fire.
Houses are burning, the earth is burning.
Footage from German newsreels - Germans in occupied territories: soldiers drive pigs, carry geese, cook dinner, shave.
Awarding of German soldiers.
German troops in the Murmansk area - German soldiers march, tanks drive by, planes at the airfield.
German planes bomb the Murmansk port, Murmansk is burning, ruins, medics carry a wounded man to a field hospital.
Operation.
A surgeon removes a splinter.
Destroyed Murmansk, captured German soldiers are led down the street.
Sailors pull a German parachute out of the water.
A concert for the defenders of Murmansk - Soviet soldiers applaud, a band plays, sailors listen, seagulls over the sea (the song "Farewell, Rocky Mountains" plays in the background).
Transfer of a submarine, built with funds from Novosibirsk schoolchildren, to Soviet sailors.
The submarine is accepted by submariner, Hero of the Soviet Union Fisanovich.
Sailors on the submarine.
Awarding of Soviet submariners with American orders.
German aircraft and warships escort Wehrmacht transport ships in Arctic waters.
Aircraft of Northern Fleet pilots dive on German transport.
The Germans load guns, shoot at Soviet aircraft.
A burning plane in the air, explosions on the water, the ship sinks.
Depth charges are dropped from the German ship.
German ships at sea.
The periscope of a Soviet submarine above the water.
The submarine commander N. Lunin looks through the periscope, gives the command, the German ship is burning (Lunin's submarine attacked the fascist battleship "Tirpitz").
Soviet submarines return to base.
Salvos from the submarine (according to the number of sunken enemy ships).
The commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Golovko, awards the sailors.
The sailors receive mail, read letters, look at photographs.
Sailors at a banquet.
A Soviet submarine in the bay.
Submariners load a gun, a salvo, an explosion.




Newsreel 1941-1945: Snow field.
German soldiers dig trenches.
Germans warm themselves by the fire, eat bread.
German General Dietl with soldiers in a trench.
Soldiers at the entrance to a dugout, General Dietl passes cigarettes to a soldier.
German soldiers drink fish oil.
Snow-covered German tanks, a German patrol.
Soviet patrol, Soviet soldiers conduct surveillance.
Soviet paratroopers go on skis, ride in reindeer sleds.
Soviet soldiers run into the village, the Germans fire from the trench, the reindeer sled turns around.
The bridge blows up.
German soldiers prepare for battle, transport guns, establish telephone communication.
German guns fire, a tank battle.
Burning, destroyed Murmansk.
A ship in the port, a crane is working. I. Papanin receives ships of the allied convoys in the port of Murmansk.
Icebreaker "Sibiryakov", captain of the ship V. Voronin.
Ships at sea, a Soviet sailor looks through binoculars.
Periscope of a German submarine, ships are sailing (shot through the periscope).
A German officer looks through the periscope.
Soviet boats at sea, sailors drop depth charges.
A sailor looks through binoculars.
A bear on the deck of a ship.




Newsreel 1941-1945: Newspapers in English.
Cartoon - a map showing the route of Allied trade caravans carrying cargo for the USSR. Allied ships at sea.
An English sailor looks out the porthole.
An English plane in the air.
German submarines pursue the convoy - a German submariner looks through the periscope, a German boat dives.
An English plane dives on a German submarine, drops bombs, explosions on the water.
An Allied caravan at sea.
English sailors on a ship.
German planes in the air.
English sailors put on helmets, the sailors load and aim the gun, the gun fires.
A German plane in the air.
The ship explodes.
A German plane falls into the sea.
Allied ships at sea.
A Soviet sailor looks through binoculars, Soviet sailors run.
Sailors fire ship guns at German planes, shells explode in the air.
Soviet and English signalmen signal, German planes fire at convoy ships.
A ship is burning, sailors from a sinking ship are in a boat.
A German plane is burning and falling.
A ship is sinking, sailors are being rescued from a sinking vessel.
German planes above the ships, explosions in the water.
Convoy ships are sailing.
Soviet boats at sea, sailors on a boat.
Sailors cool a gun barrel.
A dog on the deck of a ship.
Convoy ships at sea.
A Soviet pilot greets English sailors.
Ships in the Murmansk port, unloading in the port.
American and English sailors in the Murmansk port.
Tanks, boxes with tank engines, and ambulances are unloaded from Allied ships.
Photo - American and Soviet sailors on the American cruiser "Murmansk".
An American plane destined for Russia takes off.
Photographs of pilot I. Mazuruk during the war.
Retired General I. Mazuruk recalls how he delivered American combat aircraft along the Alaska-Siberia air route during the war (synchronously).




Newsreel 1941-1945: Murmansk.
Flags of the USSR, USA, England.
Representatives of the Allied powers are standing.
The Soviet Ambassador to the USA A. Gromyko and the US Ambassador to the USSR A. Harriman are talking. 1942 - Soviet Embassy in London.
English pilots with their wives enter the embassy building.
Mrs.
Churchill and the USSR Ambassador to Great Britain Maisky enter the hall.
Maisky presents Soviet awards to the English pilots who defended Murmansk.
English pilots near the plane.
Photos of the Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union B. Safonov with English pilots.
English pilots are preparing for the flight - they put on their gear, get into the planes' cockpits.
English planes take off.
Tundra landscape, reindeer are running, a reindeer sled passes by.
Polar airfield.
Reindeer sleds bring people to the planes.
A signal flare takes off, Soviet pilots board their planes, the planes take off.
Planes in the air.
Photo by B. Safonov.
Alarm at a German airfield, German planes take off.
Air battle.
A burning plane crashes.
A German submarine is shelled from an airplane. B. Safonov's plane returns to the airfield. B. Safonov climbs out of the cockpit.
Safonov's awards. B. Safonov with pilots at a map.
Soviet planes in the air.
Explosions on the ground.
A German soldier runs along a trench, explosions in the forest, Soviet guns fire.
German guns fire.
Soviet infantry advance.
Marshal K. Meretskov looks through binoculars.
Killed German soldiers.
Soviet tanks advance.
Soviet soldiers drag guns.
Soldiers climb over rocks.




Newsreel 1941-1945: Soviet paratroopers marching, troops loading onto a barge.
Naval guns firing.
Sailors on a boat.
German planes in the air, smoke screen and explosions on the water.
Soviet troops landing.
Cars are burning, Soviet tanks are moving.
Battles for the city of Pechenga - soldiers running through the burning city, fighting in the street.
Soviet flag on a building, captured Germans.
The city of Pechenga - a Russian church, a tank driving by, dead Germans, broken German equipment.
Soviet troops in liberated Kirkenes (Norway) - soldiers marching past a border post, a destroyed city, Norwegians hugging Soviet soldiers, refugees emerging from a tunnel, Norwegians walking with children.
Soviet soldiers with Norwegians.
They raise the Norwegian flag.
A soldier holds a boy in his arms.
A monument to Soviet soldiers in Norway.
Monument to fallen allies in Murmansk.
Murmansk port.
Ships in the port.
Icebreaker "Arktika" at sea.
Unloading of foreign ships in the port.