Beware! Maoism! (1979)

The film crew of the Central Documentary Film Studio "Caution!

Maoism!" in the screening room; director A. I. Medvedkin talks about the film and the policies of the Chinese leadership (synchronously).

Mao Zedong - short (newsreel and freeze frame).

Animations: Mao Zedong's statements (in all parts).

Photos: Earth from space - medium, zoom in.

Newsreel: A house is collapsing, trees are burning, a dog in a cage among the destruction; the devastated land is filled with craters.

Mao Zedong's assistant Deng Xiaoping - short and freeze frame.

Animation: A map of the world, maps of China reflecting territorial claims to other countries; a Chinese geography textbook is being turned over - short.

Newsreel: Mao Zedong passes - medium.

Landscape of China - general, Poland.

Streets of a Chinese city, passers-by on the streets - general, medium.

Portrait of Mao Zedong in a shop window – Wed, Poland.

Festive demonstration, Mao Zedong greets the people from the balcony. 1978 – Chinese army attacks Vietnam, fighting – general.

Photo: fighting in Vietnam, refugees marching, Vietnamese carrying a wounded man, houses burning, dead lying.

Photo of Deng Xiaoping, Vietnamese leading a captured Chinese man, captured Chinese men marching.

Protest rally in India against China’s attack on Vietnam.

Protest rally against Chinese aggression at Moscow factories.

Vietnamese soldiers driving by in a car – general.

Testing of the first Chinese atomic bomb: a flag flutters over the testing ground, an atomic explosion (a "mushroom cloud" in the air) – general.

Chinese running, dismantling, reading leaflets – general, cri.

Dancing in the square, girls waving – general.

Poland, cri.

Armed Chinese teenagers marching – general.

Chinese kids sitting – cri.; playing musical instruments – cri.

Children with rifles – cri., cri.

Pre-war German newsreel: teenagers from "Hitlerjung" marching and beating drums - various.

Newsreel: Japanese flag, boys in formation – general, Poland.

Mussolini's standard, teenagers marching and beating drums – general. (Italy).

Destroyed city - general, Poland.

China: teenage girls practicing with guns – general, cri.

Mass swim of soldiers (with guns in uniform) – Wed, general.

Galloping Chinese cavalry – Wed, Poland, general.

Streets and squares of a Chinese city – general, Wed.

Photo: Mao Zedong, Chinese in a boat. A. I. Medvedkin speaking (synchronously).

Railroad in Manchuria – general (from departure).

Tunnel – general.

Bicycles standing – Wed.

Construction of an underground fortification near the city of Shenyang: Chinese digging the earth – general, departure.

Underground city of Shenyang: streets, store counter, canteen – general, Wed.

Chinese pushing wheelbarrows – general.

Soldiers walking in gas masks – general, Poland.

Remote control.

A tank is moving, soldiers are running, shooting.

Soldier with a camera in a gas mask, soldier jumping out of cars NATO maneuvers: military planes take off, fly; and at the airfield; airfield (from the plane); military ships, American missiles take off; hand on a calculating machine, counting money; computing center, cars and tanks drive by.

Montage plans of Moscow.

A. I. Medvedkin speaks about the aggressive policy of the Chinese leadership (synchronously).

Editing table – kr.

Photo: Earth from space – kr.

Newsreel: A sailing ship sinks – general.

Newsreel from 1975: Flags of the member states of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (in Helsinki).

Participants of the conference in the conference room, signing the final document.

City with a skyscraper (shot from the water) – general., Poland.

Tanks standing and driving by – general., Poland.

American officers standing – medium, Poland.

Mao Zedong in a chair – kr.

Sculpture and photo of Mao Zedong.

Photo: old woman with a photo of her son – kr.

Crosses in a cemetery – general. (with movement).

Square with a portrait of Mao in Beijing – general., departure.

City street – general.

Father with boys near bicycles – medium.

A child is running – Wed.

Sculptures of Mao Zedong – various.

Explosion, horsemen are galloping – general, Poland.

Soldiers are putting on gas masks – Wed.

Tanks and cars with soldiers are driving by – general.

Photos and film footage: peasants in a field – plowing with oxen, harvesting rice – general, Wed, Poland; turning a wheel with their feet (for irrigation) – Wed, general.

Bare feet – cut.

A tractor is driving across a field – general.

Agricultural work in the field, done manually - various.

Cartoon: turning the pages of a book about the Dachzhat Agricultural Commune (in Russian); photographs in the book – cut.

Chinese village: a donkey is turning a wheel; peasants in the yard – Wed, general.

Montage plans illustrating the economic achievements of the socialist countries: factories, dams, etc.

The Great Wall of China – general, Poland.

People walking along the wall – cf.

Village on the river bank – general, Poland.

Peasants sitting – cf.

Pre-revolutionary Russian village: huts roofed with straw, peasants in a hut – cf.

Peasants ploughing and sowing in the field, collecting ears of corn, threshing by hand – various.

The film "Petitioners at Lenin's" (fragments) – dissolve.

Montage plans: harvesting grain in the field; L. I. Brezhnev with collective farmers in the field; grain elevator.

Newsreel of the 1920s-30s: The first five-year plans.

Construction of Tursib – rails are laid by hand, sleepers are transported on camels.

A train passes, people gallop on horses.

Montage plans for the construction of the BAM. Photo of Mao Zedong – short.

Chinese peasants working in the field, carrying baskets of grain – various.

Soldiers in gas masks running, shooting, a tank and a car driving by.

Automotive plant workshop in Changchun; cars driving through the area.

Mao Zedong sitting – cf.

Newsreel: Construction of industrial facilities in China with the help of the Soviet Union – various.

Soviet and Chinese builders standing.

Photo of Zhou En-Lai – kr.

Plant built with the help of the USSR; steel pouring, workers applauding.

Chinese workers in workshops, at the control panel. A. I. Medvedkin speaking (synchronously).

Chinese town; a merchant passing by, a bazaar, food being prepared in the street – cf.

A woman with a child on her back on the street – cf., kr.

Sale of rice, oil, fabrics, roots by ration cards – cf.

Weaving factory – cf., Poland; workshop – general, photo.

Chinese with quotation books in the square; They pass by and read dazibao (posters and leaflets on the walls) – cf.

Cartoon: leafing through books and quotations in Chinese.

Newsreel: Moscow – Red Square; Lenin’s Mausoleum – general, Poland.

Chinese visiting the Soviet Union applaud while standing in the square, lay a wreath at the Mausoleum – general, cf.

Meeting of Soviet and Chinese peasants – various.

May Day demonstration on Red Square; Chinese peasants greet the demonstrators.

Chinese delegates at a reception inspecting a tractor plant – general, cf.

Tractors being transported on platforms – general.

Chinese peasants – short, freeze frame.

A family of Chinese peasants walking – cf.

A meeting of the National People’s Congress, the presidium – general.

Mao Zedong in a chair, talking – cf.

Military planes at the airfield, taking off – cf., Poland, general.

Chinese soldiers standing, sitting, Chinese sailors standing in a trench – various.

Explosion – cf.

Session of the Atlantic bloc of NATO – general, cf.

Mass rally in China, demonstration.

UN building in New York; emblem on the building – general, cf., Poland.

Session, those present applaud.

Chinese Foreign Minister Qiao Guanghua speaks – cf.

Visit to Beijing of Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Dr.

Helmut Schmidt: gets out of the car with his wife; at a reception; says goodbye to Mao Zedong.

Evening and daytime squares in Beijing.

Visit to Beijing of American President Gerald Ford (with his wife): gets out of the car, greets Mao Zedong.

Visit to Beijing of the leader of the German revanchists Franz Josef Strauss – reception, greets Mao Zedong.

Cartoon: photographs of apologists of fascism: Mao Zedong, F. I. Strauss, Josef Luntz - the head of the NATO bloc, an ally of Beijing; Chilean dictator Pinochet; Ishak Rabin - the head of Zionism in the Arab East; English conservative Douglas Hume, Holden Roberto, suppressing the independence of Angola; Portuguese general Spinola; the Fuhrer of Italian neo-fascists Almirante, Prime Minister of South Africa Vorster, the head of racists Roderick Ian Smith.

Photographs of Mao Zedong, F. I. Strauss, I. Lunts and others (from the fifth part) – cf.

Hands take down a portrait of Mao Zedong and hang up these photographs – cf.

Newsreel of World War II: A burning building collapses – cf., Poland.

Banners with swastikas – cf.

The Germans greet Hitler wildly, shouting.

Hitler greets people from the train car.

A soldier walks by.

Germans – tf.

Hitler at a map, at a table, talking with subordinates, on a balcony, walking along the platform.

Russian refugees walk by.

Russian women are driven off to Germany; soldiers on the platform, closing the train cars, the train departs.

Children in military uniforms are standing – general.

Portuguese dictator Salazar – cf. and photo.

Monument to Salazar – general, cf.

Photo: arrested people are being led away.

Chilean dictator Pinochet is praying – cf.

The arrested person's hands are tied and he is led away blindfolded – cf.

Arrested people at a stadium in Chile – cf.

An officer inspects the soldiers – cf., Poland.

A pilot climbs out of a British Harrier fighter plane – cf.

A Harrier plane takes off – kr, cf.

Representatives watch, including a Chinese person (England) Newsreel of World War II: London is burning – various.

Bombs are falling; residents are putting out fires, clearing away the ruins.

Hitler applauds.

Chamberlain, Hitler and others sign the Munich Agreement.

The White House; the flag on the building – kr.

Chairman of the State Council of the PRC Hua Kuo-feng speaks – kr.

Photo of the leaders of Japan and China signing the Japan-China Treaty – kr.

Photo of Vice Chairman of the State Council of the PRC Deng Xiaoping and American President D. Carter.

Photo: Deng Xiaoping at a banquet in America; fighting in Vietnam.

Cartoon: Political caricature of Deng Xiaoping and Western leaders.

Photo: Earth from space – Wed, departure.