The collapse of Operation Typhoon (1981)

Newsreel from 1945, interspersed with photographs: views of destroyed buildings and streets of Berlin in May 1945. Street fighting in Berlin.

View of the Brandenburg Gate, burning debris of the building.

The Berlin Defense Command surrenders to the Red Army.

Faces of German generals who surrendered.

Panorama of a destroyed building.

Field Marshal Keitel signs the Act of Surrender.

Photographs of Soviet soldiers.

An artilleryman cleans the barrel of a gun.

The face of a Red Army soldier smoking a hand-rolled cigarette.

A white flag in the window of a Berlin building.

White flags sticking out of the windows of Berlin buildings.

Photographs of sleeping Soviet soldiers.

View of the facade of the Reichstag building, damaged during the assault.

One of the inscriptions left on the wall of the Reichstag by Soviet soldiers.

Views of the Moscow Kremlin and the center of Moscow (360-degree panorama).

Apple trees in bloom in the park in front of Moscow University on Lenin Hills.

View of the Mossovet building.

Monument to V.V. Mayakovsky.

A passenger ship sails along the Moscow Canal.

People at tables at an outdoor cafe on Kalinin Avenue.

Faces of passers-by.

Newsreel from the 1930s: participants in a Nazi event greet Hitler.

Hitler on the podium.

View of the hall of a Nazi rally.

Parade of Wehrmacht units, Hitler on the podium, production of artillery systems and tanks.

Hitler over a map during a meeting with the military.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Elderly people sit on benches in the park, read newspapers.

Veterans and schoolchildren on the streets of Moscow.

Signs with the names of Talalikhin, Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky streets.

Faces of young people on the streets of the city.

Memorial plaques in honor of Maria Polivanova and Natasha Kovshova on the walls of buildings on the streets of the same name.

Newsreel from 1941: posters in the window of a Moscow store.

Views of Moscow streets in the fall of 1941, barricades and anti-tank structures on the streets of the city.

Passengers leave the bus during an air raid siren.

Issuing weapons to fighters of the people's militia division.

Faces of fighters of one of the people's militia divisions marching in formation.

Red Army soldiers leaving for the front say goodbye to their families.

Red Army soldiers boarding a train car.

Another echelon leaves for the front.

Enrollment in the Moscow people's militia.

Issuing small arms to militiamen.

Faces of militiamen marching in formation.

Digging an anti-tank ditch on the approaches to Moscow.

Muscovites at the construction of defensive lines.

Women at excavation work during the construction of defensive structures.

Veterans who took part in the Battle of Moscow walk along a city street.

Newsreel: units of the people's militia march along the streets of Moscow.

A plaque with the name of the street of the People's Militia.

Veterans recall their departure for the front (synchronously and behind the scenes).

A memorial plaque on one of the houses in honor of the Moscow militia.

Newsreel from 1941: the offensive of German troops in the summer of 1941. Faces of German soldiers marching along the road.

A German tank reaches the attack line.

Aerial bombing by German aircraft.

German infantry in battle.

Panorama of the battlefield (above).

Panorama of a burning village.

Refugees scatter during an air raid.

Faces of crying women.

Military actions in the summer of 1941, German troops on the offensive.

The face of a German soldier.

Moscow street in autumn 1941, passers-by on the streets, shop windows filled with sandbags, alternate with views of Moscow streets in the early 1980s.

Transportation of barrage balloons along Gorky Street.

Balloon over the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Camouflaged building of the Bolshoi Theater on Sverdlov Square, alternate with views of the square in the early 1980s.

Traffic controller in a helmet on Red Square, a Red Army unit passes by.

Camouflage of Red Square, camouflaged mausoleum.

Air defense sound detectors on the roof of one of Moscow's houses.

The barrel of an anti-aircraft gun rises.

Barrage balloons in the sky over Moscow.

People enter a bomb shelter during an air raid.

Night air battles, a child sleeping in a bomb shelter.

Dropping incendiary bombs from the roof of a house.

Firefighters extinguish a burning building.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at enemy aircraft, fragments of air battles.

Girls at machine tools in factory shops, manufacturing ammunition.

Production processes in foundries of Moscow enterprises.

Home front worker N.V. Sitnov talks about the work of the plant during the Battle of Moscow, about the enthusiasm of the workers (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Faces of veteran home front workers.

Photograph of plant workers.

Newsreel from 1941: an observer of the airborne detection and observation post (VNOS) with binoculars on the roof of one of the Moscow buildings in November 1941. Anti-tank obstacles on one of the squares (panorama).

A sentry at an anti-aircraft gun.

Views of frontline Moscow.

Hitler and Goering talk during a walk.

A German tank passes by, the tanker, leaning out of the hatch, rubs his frozen ears.

German soldiers try to warm up in thin greatcoats.

A German tank on the march.

German artillery spotters determine the order of hitting targets.

A column of German armored vehicles on the march.

Hitler and the soldiers accompanying him examine examples of skis presented at an exhibition dedicated to the upcoming winter campaign.

German equipment and weapons painted white.

Towing a field kitchen on skis.

A horse with snowshoes on its feet alternates with footage of Hitler inspecting an exhibition of Wehrmacht winter equipment.

A poster from the time of the Battle of Moscow.

Columns of Soviet troops move along the streets of Moscow to the front line.

A ski battalion in camouflage robes passes.

Cavalry rides through a square.

Tanks move along Gorky Street.

View of Gorky Street as tanks move along it (from above).

Map with the plan of Operation Typhoon to capture Moscow.

German staff officers during the development of strategic military operations.

Hitler listening to the generals at the map.

A German officer looks through binoculars.

German sign.

Views of the Moscow Kremlin and city streets.

Poster "The Motherland Calls!".

Text of the Resolution of the State Defense Committee (GKO) of October 20, 1941. People read the GKO resolution.

Parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941. Units of the people's militia and tanks pass by the mausoleum.

Stalin I.V. delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Map of Operation Typhoon.

Bringing a heavy long-range gun into combat position to shell Moscow from the Krasnaya Polyana area.

Loading the gun.

The barrel of a Soviet artillery gun is raised.

View of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.

Veterans on Red Square.

One of the veterans talks about the Battle of Moscow and its significance for the entire world, about fallen comrades-in-arms (synchronously and off-screen).

Faces of veterans.

Newsreel from 1941: an elderly woman makes the sign of the cross over Red Army soldiers passing through a liberated settlement.

Red Army units passing through a liberated settlement, a girl’s face.

A Red Army unit marches along a highway, interspersed with footage of settlements near Moscow in the early 1980s, where fighting took place in 1941. A heavy artillery unit passes through the Borodino field.

An anti-aircraft gun on a pedestal at the entrance to Lobnya in 1981. Faces of passing Red Army soldiers, newsreel interspersed with footage of monuments at the sites of the battles.

Soviet infantry rises to attack.

A ski battalion attacks the enemy.

Infantry attacks the enemy with tank support during the counteroffensive near Moscow.

Soviet aircraft approach their target.

Tanks reach the attack line.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

A machine-gun crew takes up a position on a city street.

Infantry attacks along the street.

Anti-aircraft gunners fire at German aircraft.

Soviet tanks and infantry attack the enemy.

Bombs explode at German troop locations (above).

Artillery and armored trains fire at the enemy.

Summer landscapes near Moscow (panorama).

Lieutenant General F. Ya.

Lisitsyn, standing at the monument with a comrade in arms, recalls the battles with the Nazis that took place at this line in December 1941 (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel from 1943: a column of German prisoners of war heads east after the victory at Stalingrad.

German prisoners of war march under escort in December 1941. Frostbitten faces of German prisoners of war.

Views of the monument to 28 Panfilov Heroes at the Dubosekovo siding, a veteran's face.

Veterans of the Panfilov Division at their combat line, veterans' faces.

One of the veterans recalls the feat of political instructor Vasily Klochkov (synchronously).

Veterans' faces.

Photograph of Klochkov with his wife and daughter.

Monuments to Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Moscow, blooming lilacs.

Newsreel: view of part of the Moscow Region in the winter of 1941 (above).

View of the central part of Moscow and the Moscow Kremlin (above).