From the Carpathians to the Balkans and Vienna. The Unknown War №15 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaking (simultaneously in English).

Newsreel - 1944. Carpathian foothills.

Scouts sitting in a tree.

Soviet soldiers pulling a cannon.

Soviet soldiers on the Soviet-Romanian border, crossing the border.

Commanders at the map.

Nazi atrocities in the occupied territories - a village is burning, fascists in the yard of a house, residents are killed, the Germans search a detainee, lead the arrested.

Photographs of the hanged.

Hitler walks along the platform.

German soldiers march.

Film portraits of associates of the fascist regime - the Bulgarian Tsar Boris, the Hungarian dictator Admiral Horthy, the leader of the Romanian fascists Antonescu.

The advance of Soviet troops - cannons are firing, commanders are looking through binoculars, soldiers are running.

Crossing, planes flying, anti-aircraft guns firing, a paratrooper jumping out of a burning plane, dead Germans.

Marshal of Tank Troops Rotmistrov with a group of soldiers, Rotmistrov in a tank.

Crossing.

Newsreel - Soviet troops crossing a river in the foothills of the Carpathians.

A commander talks to soldiers.

Headquarters of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, commanders at a map.

General Tolbukhin and commanders discuss the plan of the operation.

Soviet troops attack positions of the Romanian army - guns, Katyusha rockets, mortars, explosions are firing.

Tank attack, planes are flying, a railway junction is being bombed.

Broken German equipment, corpses of German soldiers, captured Germans.

Romanian peasants plow the land, sow grain.

Soviet soldiers talk to peasants.

Soviet troops march along the street of a Romanian city, people greet the Soviet soldiers.

Soviet tanks drive along a city street, people greet the soldiers.

A column of captured Romanian soldiers passes.

Demonstration of the National Democratic Front in liberated Bucharest.

Newspapers are sold on the streets of the city, people greet the demonstrators.

Military equipment drives by.

Bulgarian Tsar Boris descends the steps of an airplane, stands surrounded by the German command.

Tsar Boris signs an agreement with Germany.

Photos of victims of the fascists.

Women are crying.

A detachment of Bulgarian partisans passes by, partisans at the radio, detachment commanders.

Photos of killed Germans.

Photos of partisans tortured by the fascists.

Contemporary photography - the Bulgarian village of Bataki, where the fascists shot the entire male population.

A church in the village, a woman sits at an urn with ashes.

Newsreel - Movement of Soviet troops on the border with Bulgaria: soldiers march along a mountain pass, a train with equipment moves, tanks drive by.

Soviet tanks and troops pass through the streets of a Bulgarian city, the population greets the soldiers.

Bulgarian partisans pass by, partisans embrace.

Soviet troops on the Shipka mountain pass.

Monument, soldiers at the Shipka monument.

A peasant herds sheep.

Newsreel from 1941 - The capture of Yugoslav territory by Nazi Germany: German planes bomb Yugoslav cities.

German soldiers run to the attack, guns fire, explosions, a village burns.

Yugoslav peasants leave their homes and go into the mountains.

A detachment of Yugoslav partisans passes by.

A division of German "mountain rangers".

Combat operations of Yugoslav partisans against the fascists.

German announcement of a reward for the capture of J. B. Tito.

German planes drop bombs.

Refugees hide in a crevice.

Photographs of hanged Yugoslav partisans.

German soldiers search houses.

Yugoslav partisans walk along a mountain pass, rest.

Providing assistance to the wounded.

Soviet and Allied planes deliver supplies to a Yugoslav partisan camp, evacuate the wounded from the camp by plane.

Newsreel - 1944. Signing in Moscow of an agreement between Yugoslavia and the USSR on a joint fight against Nazi Germany.

The agreement is signed by Molotov and JB Tito, A. Gromyko is present at the signing ceremony.

The offensive of the strike group of the 3rd Ukrainian Front and units of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia in the direction of Belgrade; planes are flying, cannons are firing, Katyushas, moments of the battle.

The Danube River.

The commander looks through binoculars.

Ships of the Danube Flotilla, a cannon is firing.

German soldiers in the trenches, a German radio operator.

Fighting on the outskirts of Belgrade - Soviet tanks are driving, soldiers are running, cannons are firing, Yugoslav partisans are firing, a moment of the battle.

A wounded Soviet officer is carried on a stretcher, Soviet and Yugoslav officers.

Fighting on the streets of Belgrade - cannons are firing, Katyushas, burning buildings, destroyed Belgrade.

Banner "Glory to the Red Army", portrait of Stalin.

Residents of liberated Belgrade greet Soviet soldiers on the streets of the city, a woman hugs a soldier, Soviet and Yugoslav officers hug.

Albania - military actions of Albanian partisans against the Germans: partisans in the mountains, partisans shooting, German soldiers in the mountains, a fallen telegraph pole, partisans passing by.

The population of Albania greets Soviet soldiers.

Hungary - Admiral Horthy passes by with a group of officers, Admiral Horthy at a map.

German soldiers on the streets of a Hungarian city.

German tanks, soldiers, dead, a burning city.

Newsreel 1944 - A soldier writes "Budapest" on a wall.

A street of Budapest.

Captain Ostapenko, a Soviet envoy killed by the Germans.

Ostapenko's funeral. 1945 - Soviet troops engage in combat operations to eliminate the German group in Hungary: planes flying, bombing, Katyusha rocket launchers firing, tanks driving by, explosions, soldiers firing, guns, various moments of the battle.

A cameraman films.

Fighting on the streets of Budapest.

Soldiers carrying a gun, leading a wounded man.

Soviet commanders at a map.

Marshal Malinovsky at headquarters.

Captured German officers give testimony.

Moments of the battle.

Admiral Gorshkov, commander of the Danube Flotilla, with a group of officers.

Soviet tanks crossing the river.

Fighting on the streets of Budapest, guns firing, soldiers shouting, soldiers firing machine guns from the windows of residential buildings.

Soldiers carry a wounded man.

A house explodes, a fire in the city.

Refugees return to the city.

Broken German equipment on the streets of Budapest, killed and captured Germans, a column of German prisoners of war passes.

Soviet soldiers walk along the streets of Budapest, tanks move.

Awarding of Soviet soldiers.

Cartoon - Map.

Commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front Marshal Tolbukhin with a group of officers at the map.

Movement of Soviet troops in the direction of Vienna.

Combat operations of Soviet troops to liberate Vienna - planes fly, tanks move, bombs fall, guns fire, explosions.

Attack of Soviet tanks and infantry.

Newsreel 1945 - Fighting in the streets of Vienna, soldiers running, fires in the city, tanks shooting, guns, explosions.

A column of German prisoners of war passes.

Vienna, cathedral, monuments, Mozart's house.

Residents of Vienna throw the fascist flag off the building and burn it, the swastika falls.

Austrians shake hands with Soviet soldiers, talk.

Refugees return to their homes, the population cleans the streets, people carry logs, men pull a tram.

Soviet soldiers build a bridge across the Danube.

A woman with a stroller walks down the street, children play, people read newspapers.

Soviet military leaders and members of the Austrian government pass.

The national flag of Austria is raised over the building.

Vienna square, monuments.

People and Soviet soldiers are sitting on benches.

A soldier with an accordion walks.

The Red Banner Orchestra plays.

The Viennese dance a waltz.