Messengers of peace and friendship (1986)

Buds on the branches – Wed.

Moskovskaya Street, two girls walking by – kr, Poland.

Girls walking along the bridge; Poland towards the canal – Wed.

Spain.

Madrid Square – Wed.

A girl and a young man sitting – kr.

A man and a woman talking – Wed.

Demonstrators on the streets of Spain – general.

A pregnant woman with a child walking by – Wed.

A woman walking with a child in her arms – Wed, Poland.

Denmark.

Copenhagen Square; Poland towards the standing bicycles – general.

A girl riding a bicycle – Wed.

A little boy sitting – kr.

A group of students sitting on the steps of a building – general.

Moscow (shot from the CMEA building) – general, Poland.

The House of Unions building – general.

People climbing the stairs to the Hall of Columns – various.

Hall of Columns – general, Poland (from above).

Listeners in the hall – general, Wed.

Zinaida Mikhailovna Kruglova, Chairperson of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies, speaking (synchronously) – various, departure.

Listeners in the hall; in the presidium; applauding – various.

Among the listeners is a prominent public figure in Denmark, lawyer Heriod Lannung – general.

Denmark.

The building of the House of Friendship in Copenhagen – general, general. H. Lannung at his desk in his office – general.

Newsreel: Platform (from the passage) – general.

Refugees passing – general.

People carrying stretchers with earth – general.

Photo of the explorer and traveler Fridtjof Nansen – general.

People standing – general.

Photo of H. Lannung in his youth – general.

Newsreel from the 1920s: Trams going – general, general.

Brass band playing – general.

People rejoicing; running after the tram – general.

English writer Bernard Shaw getting off the train – cf. B. Shaw among those greeting him – cf.

Scientist Albert Einstein among people – cf., kr.

German writer T. Mann in his office – cf.

French physicist Paul Langevin and English writer H. G. Wells are standing – various.

Indian philosopher and poet Rabindranath Tagore among people – cf., kr. M. Gorky is standing with French writer Romain Rolland – general, cf. R. Rolland is standing – kr.

French writer Henri Barbusse is leaving the building – general.

A congress of friends of the Soviet Union is taking place in the Column Hall of the House of Unions – general, cf.

People are listening – cf.

Henri Barbusse is speaking – cf.

People's Commissar of Education A. V. Lunacharsky raises the banner – cf.

Applauding – cf.

People's Commissar K. E. Voroshilov pins the Order on Clara Zetkin – Wed.

Applauding – Wed.

Writers K. Fedin and A. Tikhonov are standing – Wed, Poland.

Meeting the great physicist and outstanding fighter for peace J. Curie at the train station – Wed.

Writer Anna Seghers is smiling, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is sitting – Wed, CR; Ilya Ehrenburg – CR. Newsreel: Film director Grigory Alexandrov and Italian artist Renato Guttuso are standing – CR, Poland.

Singer Paul Robeson is given flowers – Wed.

Jubilant audience – Wed.

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is given flowers – Wed.

Yuri Gagarin is descending the steps of an airplane and greeting the people greeting him; he is driving by in a car – various.

Meeting in the Blue Hall of the House of Unions – Wed, Poland. Z. Kruglova is speaking, Poland on the presidium – Wed.

Representatives of different countries are speaking (synchronously) – various.

Applauding – Wed.

Conversations in the corridors – various.

Secretary-General of the Parliamentary Association of Japan-Soviet Friendship Kenjiro Kadoya is speaking (synchronously in Japanese).

Japanese and Russian girls are watching – Wed, kr.

The head of the National Association of Friendship between Peoples Vital Balle is speaking (synchronously) – various.

People are standing – Wed.

A woman's face – kr, Poland.

Girls at the train station are giving flowers to tourists – Wed.

Tourists are walking along the street – Wed.

Girls in national costumes are waving balloons at the airfield, presenting "bread and salt" – various.

Moscow, Kalinin Avenue – general.

The building of the House of Friendship in Moscow; the meeting hall – various.

Federal Chancellor of Austria Fred Zinnovets speaking (synchronously) – kr, general.

Listeners in the hall; presidium – various. Z. Kruglova presents F. Zinnovets with a book – cf.

Applauding – general, Poland.

Exhibition of paintings by Azerbaijani artist N. Zeynalov in the halls of the House of Friendship – general, Poland.

Artist Zeynalov standing – cf.

Paintings – various.

Girl looking – kr.

A girl is watching – Wed.

Writer Savva Dangulov at the opening of the exhibition "Mother and Child" in the House of Friendship – Wed.

Paintings – various.

A girl is watching – cr.

A band from Vietnam is performing on stage (synchronously) – general, Poland.

Girls are singing the song "Katyusha" (synchronously in Russian) – Wed.

A motor ship, people on board – various.

A motor ship is sailing along the river – general (off-screen "Katyusha" in Japanese).

The river bank – Wed, Poland.

People are passing by – general, Poland.

A rally near the monument to those fallen in World War II in Volgograd – general, Poland.

War veterans are standing – Wed, Poland.

A monument on Soldier's Field near Volgograd – general.

Poland, the details of the monument and the flowers – cr., Poland.

Members of the delegation of sister cities on Soldiers' Field – various.

A woman is crying – Wed, Poland.

Buildings are collapsing – various.

German soldiers are passing by – Wed.

Buildings are burning; charred stoves of houses – various.

Representatives of cities that were victims of World War II at a table – Wed, Poland.

A man is sitting, Poland on his hand – Wed, cr.

People in a museum; Poland on the sword given to Stalingrad by the English King George – Wed.

Men are looking – cr, Poland.

Sword – cr.

The delegation of sister cities on Mamayev Kurgan – general.

The eternal flame in the Pantheon – general.

People applaud at a meeting with the participants of the friendship train from the FRG – general, cr.

The banner is handed over to the Presidium – Wed.

Foreigners talk with Soviet workers – various, Poland.

The face of a worker in a helmet – kr.

People in the hall at the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Victory over fascism; the speaker is speaking – general, Poland.

Twice Hero of Socialist Labor of the PRB Naida Mancheva is speaking (synchronously) – zoom in, zoom out, Wed, Poland.

GDR. A street in Berlin – general.

People are going down the passage – Wed.

A pedestal with posters – Wed.

The building of the House of Friendship in Berlin – general, Poland.

A group of young people is standing – Wed, Poland.

Young men are watching – kr, Wed.

A girl and a young man are presented with membership cards of the GDR-USSR Friendship Society – various.

One of the halls of the House of Soviet Science and Culture in the GDR – general.

In the corridors – general, Poland.

The library of the House of Soviet Science and Culture in Berlin; Poland from books to people – Wed.

People in a concert hall – general.

Soviet cellist playing (synchronously) – Wed.

Listeners – Wed.

Czechoslovakia.

Prague – general.

People walking across a bridge – general.

Seagulls – Wed.

House of Friendship in Prague – general, Poland.

People looking at a shop window – Wed, Poland.

Painting by Deineka – kr.

Preparing an exhibition of paintings by Soviet artists in Prague, Poland for a sculpture – Wed.

Paintings – misc., Poland. O. Mauritius.

Palm trees on a street in Port Louis – general, Poland.

Sign on the House of Friendship – kr.

Doctors from the USSR and Mauritius passing by.

Poland for doctors – general, kr, Poland.

Doctor Indradut Channu talking with colleagues from the USSR – Wed, kr.

One of the streets in Port Louis – general.

Monument to V.I. Lenin in Port Louis – general.

People lay a wreath, flowers at the monument to V.I. Lenin – general, Wed.

A man looks on, African children – Wed, cr.

A woman lays flowers at the monument – Wed, Poland.

Madagascar.

Poland from a flowering tree to passers-by – general.

The city of Antananarivo.

Street – various.

A branch of a flowering tree – general.

A sign on the House of Soviet-Malagasy Friendship – cr.

Russian language lesson – Wed.

Pupils.

A girl talks about the Soviet Union (simultaneously in Russian).

Madagascar.

Malagasy boys and girls standing – cf.

A boy reading poetry (synchronously) – cf.

Photo: African girls – kr.

People at the exhibition of TASS photojournalist Oleg Ivanov in Antananarivo – various.

Photographs: trees in the snow, girls in Russian folk costumes; V. Tereshkova and Angela Davis standing hand in hand – various.

USSR. People in the hall of the House of Friendship in Moscow – general, Poland.

Listeners on the presidium, in the hall – various.

A man’s face – kr.

A former student of Patrice Lumumba University speaking (synchronously in Russian) – kr.

Indira Gandhi School in Moscow: Indian women and a Russian boy sitting – various, Poland.

Portrait of Indira Gandhi – cf.

Soviet schoolgirls dancing an Indian dance – various, Poland.

Schoolchildren and a teacher watching – Wed, Poland.

Monument in Yerevan – Wed.

Fountain near the Eternal Flame in Yerevan – Wed.

One of the streets of Yerevan – general.

Sculpture near a building – Wed.

View of Yerevan – general.

Building of the House of Friendship in Yerevan – Wed.

Spanish delegation of the Catalan branch of the Spain-USSR Society standing - Wed.

Meeting with the Spanish delegation – various, Poland.

Spanish guests on the street of Yerevan – Wed.

Posters; a group of people standing – Wed, Poland.

Concert of the Spanish singer Maria Fossal, Poland of the chandelier, of the guitar – general, Wed.

Maria Fossal singing on the stage (synchronously) – cr.

Spectators listening – general, Wed.

Fountains of Yerevan – general.

Spain.

Monument to J. Columbus in Barcelona – general, cr.

Barcelona Square – general, panorama.

Soviet tourists walking through Toledo – wed, panorama.

Picasso's house in Spain. panorama of the memorial plaque – wed.

Cervantes monument in Madrid – various.

Madrid street – general.

Pushkin monument in Madrid; children at the monument – wed, general.

People on the streets – wed.

People at a newsstand, panorama of magazines – wed.

Posters of Soviet films – kr, panorama.

Soviet and Spanish filmmakers talking – various.

People sitting in the hall – various, panorama.

González Macho, director of the Spanish company Altafilm, speaking (synchronously) – kr.

Man's face – kr.

Film director Pyotr Todorovsky speaking (synchronously) – various.

Listeners – various. P. Todorovsky gives gifts to his Spanish colleagues – Wed.

France.

Triumphal Arch – general. M.S. Gorbachev talks with the chairman of the France-USSR Friendship Society – various.

Madeleine Guilbert, executive president of the France-USSR Society, talks with M.S. Gorbachev – Wed, general. M. Gorbachev smiles – cr.

USSR. Kyiv.

Members of the American delegation pass by – general.

Ukrainian teachers greet the director of the University of Wisconsin, USA Robert Shakht – Wed, general, Poland.

Poland over the flags of the USSR, USA, and Ukrainian SSR. Men talking – Wed.

Academician G.A. Arbatov speaks (synchronously) – Wed.

The building of the House of Friendship in Moscow – Wed, Poland.

Poland over the Kremlin – various.

Foreigners on Red Square – Wed, cr.

A young man taking a photo – cr., Poland.

A woman and a man are watching – different, panorama.