Movie Echo of the past war. (1981)
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0:09:28Echo of the past war (1981)
Annotation:
The film tells the story of the defeat of imperialist Japan in World War II.
Annotation:
A newsreel documentary about World War II. A woman with a child on a stretcher. An airplane dropping bombs. A pilot in the [bomber] cockpit. Japanese children with daggers and rifles. Japanese soldiers, officers, military leaders. Close-ups of A. Hitler, G. Goering, W. Keitel. A German soldier at a destroyed gun (1943, the Battle of Kursk). Rooks' nests. Peasants plough the land. A plough. A trench. Stoves and chimneys of a burnt-out house. A cat and an old woman at the site of the fire. Destruction. Soldiers listening to a gramophone and shaving. A tank moving past a column of German prisoners. A military orchestra playing. Soldiers dancing, playing the accordions. Soldiers saying goodbye at the station, the train (train) departing, soldiers in the carriages. A foal galloping. A meeting of demobilized soldiers. The Crimean Conference of 1945. Close-ups of F. Roosevelt, W. Churchill, I. V. Stalin. Negotiations. Present: V. M. Molotov. A. A. Gromyko. A US military plane makes an unsuccessful landing on board an aircraft carrier and crashes. Planes crash. A fatally wounded pilot. Japan. The city of Tokyo. 1930s. Japanese Minister of War Tojo. November 1936. Signing of the "Anti-Comintern Pact". A. Hitler greets the Japanese Ambassador Tanaka. B. Mussolini speaks to the soldiers. Soldiers wash horses. Chronicle dedicated to the events of 1939 on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin-Gol River. Germany. Berlin. March 1941. A car with Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka drives through the streets of the city. Matsuoka greets Hitler, greets the crowd from the balcony. Ribbentrop is present. The city of Moscow. The Kremlin. Matsuoka and I. Stalin raise their glasses. V. Ya. Molotov and Matsuoka sign the treaty on April 13, 1941. Newsreel footage dedicated to the defense of Moscow in 1941. Newsreel footage dedicated to the events in Pearl Harbor, USA on December 7, 1941. Japanese pilots in an airplane. Japanese soldiers in Burma. Newsreel footage dedicated to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. 1945. Demobilized Soviet soldiers returning home by train (resting in the carriage). Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 in Moscow. The Kwantung Army on the march. Combat operations of Soviet and Japanese troops, including the 1st and 2nd Far Eastern Fronts of the Soviet Union. Crossings. Vehicles moving along mountain roads. Landing of troops. Commanders V. V. Malinovsky, A. M. Vasilevsky, K. A. Meretskov, Marshal Choibalsan. Japanese kamikaze pilots. Kamikazes drinking sake. Kamikaze planes exploding over the sea. Liberation of Korean and Chinese territories. Mao Zedong speaking. Manchukuo. Emperor Pu-yi. People bowing before the emperor. Japanese officers. Japan. The city of Tokyo. The trial of Japanese criminals. Former Emperor Pu-yi being led, Pu-yi giving evidence. The Great Wall of China (shot from an airplane). Japanese soldiers on the street of a Chinese city. Soldiers beating and burying people alive. The signing of the act of unconditional surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, aboard the US battleship Missouri. Present: M. Shigemitsu (Japan), General MacArthur (USA), K. N. Derevyanko (USSR). May 3, 1946, a session of the International Tribunal for the Far East. The defendants get off the bus, including Minister of War Tojo. A court session. Tojo gives testimony (synchronously). Soviet judge Golunsky is present. Defendants Matsuoka, Oshima. A destroyed city. Women praying. Destroyed Stalingrad. The Reichstag column. Soviet soldiers salute on the roof of the Reichstag. The Chancellery building. A. Hitler's office. The monument to Hero of the Soviet Union A. Stepanov over the Dnieper. Stepanov's mother - E. F. Stepanova. Japan. The city of Tokyo. The Japanese pray in a temple. A military parade.
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Newsreel from the 1930s: A woman with a child on a stretcher.
An airplane flies by, bombs fall.
Destroyed houses in a European city.
Japanese commanders, soldiers.
Germany.
A woman with her murdered daughter.
Nazi criminals.
A German soldier near a destroyed gun.
Peasants plowing the land after the war; people near destroyed buildings.
Photo with the caption: "Alexei Vasilyevich Borisov 1917-1941. Scout." Newsreel from 1941-1945: The life of soldiers.
Berlin in May 1945; destruction.
Soviet soldiers dancing, saying goodbye.
A train departing.
View of a village.
A soldier looks on.
A locomotive, train wheels.
A galloping foal (rapid).
Soldiers meeting with their families.
The mother of nine dead sons, E. F. Stepanova, speaks (synchronously).
Crimean Conference of the Leaders of the Three Allied Powers: I.V. Stalin, F. Roosevelt, W. Churchill at the conference.
An American plane lands on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean.
The plane falls, crashes, the pilot dies.
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Newsreel from the 1930s: Hitler, German soldiers pass by.
Japanese soldiers pass by.
Hitler greets, signs the "Anti-Comintern Pact" with Mussolini.
Mountains in the Far East.
Everyday life of border guards; the Lagoda brothers on the border.
The grave of border guard S.F. Lagoda, who died at the hands of Japanese bandits.
Semyon Lagoda's brother Ivan is given his rifle.
Border guards pass by.
Battles at Khasan and Khalkhin-Gol (in the air) (1938-39); the Japanese after their defeat.
Newsreel from 1941: Meeting of Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka in Berlin, conversation with Hitler.
Germans in Paris.
Hitler and German generals at a map.
Matsuoka's arrival in Moscow. I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov and Matsuoka sign the neutrality pact between the USSR and Japan.
Telegraph apparatus.
Wartime Moscow.
Japanese air force attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia: planes flying, bombs falling; wrecked ships, a ship sinking, extinguishing a fire on a ship.
Japanese soldiers landing, Japanese soldiers in Burma.
Newsreel 1904: Russo-Japanese War; Russian prisoners marching; meeting of the victors in Tokyo – General Nogi, who captured Port Arthur, Admiral Tao, commander of the fleet in the Sea of Japan.
Cartoon: Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty.
Japanese soldiers who occupied the Soviet Far East, in Primorye.
Address by V.I. Lenin to the Soviet people.
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Newsreel 1945: Transfer of Soviet soldiers to the Far East; everyday life of soldiers in train cars.
Victory Parade on Red Square.
Commander of the Karelian Front Marshal Meretskov, commanders of the fronts: 3rd Belorussian - Marshal Vasilevsky, 2nd Ukrainian - Marshal Malinovsky, I.V. Stalin at the parade.
Forces of the Kwantung Army (soldiers, aircraft, etc.) in Manchuria.
Transfer of Soviet weapons to the Far East.
Beginning of military operations against Japan.
Movement of a unit of the 1st Far Eastern Front under the command of Marshal Meretskov.
Landing of troops of the 2nd Far Eastern Front on the banks of the Amur.
Crossing and advance of Soviet soldiers in a flooded area.
Transbaikal Front: transportation of guns along the mountain road of the Greater Khingan.
Marine landing force of the Pacific Fleet, explosion in the water.
Marshal Vasilevsky and others at the map.
Mongolian soldiers and commanders in the Gobi Desert.
A soldier distributes newspapers.
Military actions of Japanese soldiers.
Training of Japanese "kamikaze" (suicide soldiers).
Planes explode, fall into the sea.
Japanese prisoners surrender.
Meeting of Soviet soldiers in a Korean city.
Disassembly of weapons.
Mao Zedong speaks.
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Newsreel 1931: Beginning of the Japanese occupation of China: rails mangled by an explosion; a train moving.
Emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo on the territory of Manchuria – Henry Pu-yi, subordinates bow.
Newsreel 1946: Pu-yi is led to the trial of Japanese war criminals, Pu-yi gives testimony.
Japanese soldiers in China, atrocities committed by soldiers.
Newsreel 1945: Signing of the act of unconditional surrender of Japan on board the American battleship Missouri; the act is signed on the Japanese side by Japanese Foreign Minister M. Shigemitsu.
Newsreel 1946: Beginning of the work of the International Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo; the main defendant, Prime Minister and Minister of War Tojo, speaks (synchronously).
Matsuoka, General Oshima (former Japanese Ambassador to Berlin) at the trial.
A nuclear explosion and its consequences.
General Oshima with the Nazis in Berlin.
Newsreel 1943: Battle of Stalingrad.
Newsreel 1945: Berlin, Hitler's chancellery and office.
Monument and slab with the inscription: "Here lies Hero of the Soviet Union Senior Lieutenant Alexander Mikhailovich Stepanov (1923-1943)." The hero's mother, E.F. Stepanova, is a red-haired woman.
Reed; sun behind clouds.
Tokyo; religious ceremony.
Military parade.
Representatives of the Chinese and American governments at the parade.