Norway - 35 years later (1979)

Norway.

Landscapes, icy cliffs.

Sculpture of Roald Amundsen, polar explorer of the Arctic and Antarctica.

B/W Portrait of Fridtjof Nansen, the famous polar explorer.

Portrait of Henrik Ibsen, the famous playwright.

Portrait of Edvard Grieg, the great composer.

Seascapes.

Oslo, a report on the city, people on the streets.

The Soviet delegation at the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the liberation of the northern regions of Norway from the fascists by the Soviet Army.

Border posts.

The Soviet delegation, headed by Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, Comrade Maslennikov, meets with Norwegian comrades at the border.

The Soviet delegation includes representatives from various cities of the USSR; on the Norwegian side, the delegation is met by the USSR Ambassador to Norway, Comrade Yu.A. Soviet General Kuzovatkin and Norwegian General Tønne Hutfeldt talk to each other.

Land of Norway – filmed from a helicopter.

Newsreel 1941-1945: German plane in the air, explosion.

Nazi flag, Soviet sailor takes aim.

Soviet ship fires, explosion, German plane drops bombs into the sea, naval battle.

Soviet soldier puts on a helmet.

Marines land on the shore; tanks drive over the broken ground.

Soviet soldiers-liberators march.

Soviet soldiers lead about 3,000 Norwegians out of the Vjørnevati iron ore mine (near Kirkenes) to freedom.

Soviet command.

Sappers clear the land of mines.

Residents return to their liberated homes.

The destroyed city of Kirkenes.

Kirkenes – modern view.

Report on the city; children.

Monument to Soviet soldiers who gave their lives for the freedom of Norway.

The Soviet delegation and citizens of Kirkenes lay wreaths at the monument.

Kirkenes Mayor Arnt Isaksen lays a wreath.

Monument to Norwegian patriots who died in the Great Patriotic War.

Laying a wreath at the monument.

Seascape.

In Oslo, a monument to resistance fighters, laying a wreath.

Other monuments to WWII soldiers.

The Soviet delegation is received by the Minister of Defence of Norway, Thorvald Stoltenberg.

The Minister of Defence, Thorvald Stoltenberg, is speaking.

Oslo – a report on the city; evening Oslo; elderly women are distributing an appeal against nuclear war on the street.

A reception at the Soviet embassy.

The Norwegian representative presents the Soviet ambassador with a book describing the exploits and depicting the burial places of Soviet soldiers on Norwegian soil.

Lyudmila Chursina and Innokenty Smoktunovsky – famous Soviet actors are talking with Norwegian friends.

The Soviet delegation and Norwegian representatives at the exhibition of Soviet books.

The newspaper contains a photograph of Hans Johansen – a railway worker awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples by the Soviet government.

A portrait of H. Johansen, shown by his daughter.

A meeting of the Soviet delegation at the Norway – USSR Society.

Vice-chairman of the society, Odlaug Andersen, is speaking at the Norway – USSR Society.

Listeners.

The head of the Soviet delegation, comrade M.I. Maslennikov, is speaking.

The audience is applauding.

A street in Oslo – a report.

The Soviet delegation is being received in the Norwegian parliament – the Storting.

The clock on the building.

The representatives of the Soviet country are being received by the Prime Minister of Norway, Odvar Nordli.

Odvar Nordli is speaking.

Oslo.