Movie No room for error. (1980)
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0:09:05No room for error (1980)
Annotation:
On the activities of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
Historical reference:
The film uses materials from the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR and the archives of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
Annotation:
The film tells about the main functions of the Supreme Court, its history. Views of Pinsk and the building of the People's Court in Pinsk, the type of cases accepted for consideration by the Supreme Court of the USSR, a meeting of members of the Supreme Court in the courtroom, a speech by M. S. Gorbachev at a session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, an interview with the Chairman of the Supreme Court Smirnov (synchronously), a meeting of members of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. The film uses newsreel footage that captured the sessions of the Supreme Court during the trials of Socialist Revolutionaries, Nazi criminals, spies and other criminals. Interviews with members of the Supreme Court of the USSR (synchronously).
Reel №1
A report on the city of Pinsk.
Documents of K. Petrukovich, who was suing an automobile trust, N. Petrukovich passes by.
The building of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Moscow, members of the Supreme Court pass by and talk. L. N. Smirnov, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR, President of the Association of Soviet Democratic Lawyers, speaks at a plenum of the Supreme Court.
The following take part in the plenum: war veteran A. M. Filatov, Chairman of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Byelorussian SSR, former partisan commander A. G. Bondar, members of the Supreme Court of the USSR, former nurse A. F. Demyanenko, former partisan N. P. Arestovich, Prosecutor General of the USSR R. A. Rudenko, Minister of Justice of the USSR V. I. Terebilov.
Newsreel of 1945: The Nuremberg Trials: R. Rudenko and L. Smirnov speak.
The First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR S. I. Gusev and the First Deputy Minister of Justice of the USSR A. Ya.
Sukharev speak at the plenum.
The Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU M. S. Gorbachev delivers a report at a session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in November 1979 (synchronously). L. N. Smirnov talks about the new Law, about the Supreme Court (synchronously).
Photo: the first Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR A. N. Vinokurov.
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Newsreel of the 1920s: Report on Moscow.
Newspaper with a message about the arrest of counter-revolutionary V. A. Savinkov.
Photographs of V. Savinkov, documents on his case.
Newsreel of the 1920s: Destruction.
Funeral of revolutionaries Uritsky, Voldarsky.
Arrested Socialist Revolutionaries being transported in a car, criminals in the dock.
Session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. Photo of the head of the counter-revolutionary Transcaspian government in Ashgabat Funtikov, documents on his case.
Monument to the 26 Baku Commissars.
Photographs of the former ataman of the Siberian Cossack Army, General Annenkov, documents on his case.
Old issues of the newspaper "Soviet Siberia".
Newsreel of the 1920s: A punitive detachment of White Guards rides across a field, rides to a village.
Traitors in the dock.
Construction during the first five-year plans.
Newsreel 1941: Beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
Court documents on cases of former policemen, White Guard generals and others.
Newsreel 1963: Trial of British citizen Wynne and Soviet citizen Penkovsky.
Continuation of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR, L. N. Smirnov speaks, member of the Supreme Court of the USSR Elemisov (synchronously), Rudenko, Filatov and others are present.
Convicted Tilagov and others are escorted, court documents on their case.
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Release from the correctional labor colony of Tilagov, Shakhanov and Firmanov, whose case was heard at the plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR. Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR G. A. Smolentsev talks about the work of the court (synchronously).
Work of the reception room of the Supreme Court of the USSR (synchronously). A. M. Filatov chairs a meeting of the judicial collegium for criminal cases (synchronously).
Meeting of the military collegium.
Hearing at a meeting of the judicial collegium for civil cases, the case of the eviction of the Petrukovich family, Demyanenko, V. I. Zamyatin (synchronously) and others speak, L. N. Smirnov is present.
The city of Pinsk, engineer M. Petrozkovich and his family at home, on the street.
A visiting session of the judicial collegium for civil cases, consisting of a member of the Supreme Court of the USSR, Doctor of Law Trubnikov and Assistant Prosecutor General of the USSR Cheburakhin, hear the case of M. Petrukovich (synchronously).
Text of the Supreme Court decision.