Towards the world (1979)

Photograph of a woman with a poster.

Crowds of people in the streets.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

Chronicle of 1945: Arrival of a train.

Crowd with bouquets on the platform.

Soldiers are given flowers, meetings with relatives.

Woman with flowers and posters.

War veteran with his grandson.

Meeting of fellow soldiers.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: Ditch with bodies of the dead.

Nuremberg Trials.

Bodies of murdered children, stacked with firewood.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

Chronicle of military conflicts: Fire.

Airplanes take off. G. Shaffer narrates.

Fighter jets fly over the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Military equipment.

A soldier looks through binoculars.

Missile salvo.

US plan to attack the USSR. Continuation of the interview with G. Shaffer.

Demonstrations in defense of peace in different countries.

Chronicle of April 20-25, 1949: Crowds on the streets of Paris.

Participants in the First World Peace Congress. J.F. Joliot-Curie speaking at the podium. A.A. Fadeyev and L. Aragon. P. Picasso. P.L.B. Robson speaking. E. Cotton. I.G. Ehrenburg. H. Johnson talking to women.

Congress delegates.

Applause from the audience.

Speech at the stadium.

Rosettes and turrets of the Catholic cathedral.

Clock tower.

Street in Prague.

Congress delegates climbing the stairs, applause from those greeting them. G. Fučíková narrates.

Chronicle of the parallel Prague Congress: Congress delegates in the hall.

View of the podium.

Voting.

Delegates waving cards.

Congress participant card. G. Fučíková speaking.

The Jubilee Session of the Presidium of the World Peace Council in 1979, with G. Fuchikov at the podium.

Congress delegates.

The Dove of Peace on a poster.

Reflections in a shop window.

National flags of different countries.

People on the streets of cities around the world.

Drawing.

Chronicle of 1950: Text of the Stockholm Appeal.

Cartoon: a highlighted quotation against the background of the text.

People in all countries sign the appeal.

Congress delegates greet with applause people with volumes containing the signatures.

Speech by J.F. Joliot-Curie.

Applause from the audience.

Women give flowers to the delegates.

A crowd listens to the speech on the street.

Chronicle of the 1970s: D.D. Bernal at the podium.

Meeting of members of peace organizations. A.A. Voznesensky shakes hands with the Japanese singer A. Seki.

Alternation: E.K. Fedorov on the podium, people in the hall.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen with his interlocutor. I. Blum. M.F.G.E. Niemeller speaking at the podium.

Demonstration participants.

A flock of pigeons in the sky.

Peaceful demonstrations.

Drawing.

Italian artist R. Guttuso.

A glass with brushes opposite a fragment of a painting.

French cartoonist J. Effel at work.

Drawing.

Photographs.

NATO newsreels: Fighter planes in the sky.

Honor guard at the building with national flags.

NATO bloc meeting.

Servicemen salute.

Missiles being launched to the launch pad.

A ship in the ocean.

Missile launch.

NATO newsreel footage: missile launch. F. Noel-Baker speaking.

War conflict chronicle: soldier pressing a button. readings on instrument. interspersed with atomic explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, photographs. rain pouring down car window, windscreen wipers working. traffic on road. cars on street of destroyed city. view from car onto road, people and tanks on roadsides. overturned and burnt out vehicles. bombs dropped from airplanes. explosions. destroyed Vietnamese village, woman crawling on ground.

American soldier. people on streets of destroyed city, among ruins of houses. jubilee session of Presidium of World Peace Council in 1979, Vietnamese representative Phan Anh speaking. chronicle of different countries and years: woman’s face. children in hospital. elderly man’s face. women and children walking through desert. workers protesting on plantation, woman swinging at policeman.

A woman with a child and a machine gun.

Drawings by graphic artists, some images are presented as a transition from negatives to positives.

The decree on peace on a newspaper page.

Chronicle of 1973: Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin.

Flags and an announcement of the World Congress of Peace Forces in the city center.

General view of the hall.

Alternation: L.I. Brezhnev speaking on the podium, people in the hall.

Chronicle of Helsinki, 1975: The Pan-European Conference of the OSCE. Cars driving up to the building.

Panorama of the conference hall.

Representatives of foreign powers on the podium, the signing of the final Helsinki Act.

The act is signed by L.I. Brezhnev, next to him is the Prime Minister of Turkey S. Demirel.

Photojournalists.

A monument.

Trade union activist A. Fainglas speaking.

Delegates of the congress.

The Dove of Peace on a poster. A. Maske, a member of the leadership of the FRG Peace Committee, speaking.

Delegates of the congress.

Moscow meeting of writers and public figures.

Participants of the meeting. K.M. Simonov. U. Saroyan speaks.

Chronicle of different countries and years: People running along the street.

Soldiers cordoning off the stadium, civilians standing on the benches.

An elderly woman addresses journalists.

Photographs.

Women with a child, a grandmother kissing her grandson.

Protest demonstrations.

Panorama of a square filled with people.

Photographs. R. Chandra speaks.

World Peace Council, the hall rises and applauds.

Delegates on the podium.

Chronicle of 1979: Vienna, L.I. Brezhnev and D.E. Carter sign the Treaty between the USSR and the USA on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

People in the hall. L.I. Brezhnev and D.E. Carter exchange folders and shake hands.

Applause from the audience.

Cameramen and photojournalists.

Sale of thematic postage stamps.

People reading newspapers on the street.

Residents of European and American cities, adults and children.

Photos.