Don't repeat the mistake (1986)

Summer.

Posters – burning butterflies, mother with child – short, panorama.

Photo: man burned by atomic blast; monument to Hiroshima victims – various, zoom in.

Cemetery – medium, departure.

Holland.

Monument to victims of fascism in Amsterdam – general.

USSR. Eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – short, zoom in.

Sculptor at work – short, general, zoom in.

Sculptor’s hands – short, panorama.

Sculpture – short, panorama.

France.

Seine River – general.

View of Paris from the river – general, panorama.

Seine embankment – medium.

French singer Martine Sarri sings (simultaneously in French) – short.

City of Paris – general, panorama from above, various.

A barge or pleasure boat is sailing along the Seine – Wed, general.

Girls are walking along the embankment – kr.

Bridges over the Seine - general, Poland.

Lovers are sitting by the river – Wed.

People in Montmartre – general, Poland, Wed.

Martin Sarri is speaking (synchronously in French).

An artist is painting a portrait in the street; children are watching – various.

A girl is painting – kr, Poland.

A young man and a girl are standing at an easel – Wed.

Children – kr, Poland.

A girl with a bouquet of flowers is posing for the artist – kr, Poland.

An artist's drawing – kr.

The French artist Fougeron is painting; he talks about his participation in the anti-fascist resistance (synchronously in French) – Wed.

Fougeron at his painting – Wed.

Paints on the palette – kr.

Fougeron at work – Wed, Poland.

Fougeron's painting (anti-war theme) – kr, Poland.

The Montvalerian Cemetery near Paris – general, Poland.

A memorial plaque with the inscription “Cemetery” on the wall – kr.

A woman weeding a flowerbed near her house – general.

A man – kr.

A woman carrying out a portrait of the Red Army lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union, and French resistance fighter Vasily Porik – general.

Porik’s portrait – kr, Poland.

A woman standing – kr, Poland.

A marble plaque on a grave – kr, Poland.

French comrades near the house where the wounded Porik was hidden.

Porik’s French friend and comrade in the resistance speaks about him (simultaneously in French).

The woman in whose house Porik lived shares her memories of him (simultaneously in French) – kr.

A man listening – kr.

USSR. A village – filmed through birch trees – general, Poland.

Winter.

Birds on a snow-covered tree – short, panorama.

Photographs of Porik’s father and mother – various.

Wooden house with lighted windows – general.

Evening landscapes – various.

Winter road in the forest – general (shot from a distance).

Monument to fallen Soviet soldiers – general, distance.

France.

Flowers in the Montvalerian cemetery; people passing by – medium, panorama.

People in the cemetery (they came to honor all those who died for the freedom of France) – various, panorama.

French people – former resistance fighters in the cemetery – short, panorama.

A choir is singing in the cemetery – general, panorama.

People are standing – various.

Autumn.

Holland.

Monuments to the victims of fascism in Amsterdam – various.

Willem Hulst, head of the Holland-USSR Friendship Society, walks by – Wed, Poland.

Poland over yachts, houses, and a bridge – various.

A man rides a bicycle, a woman walks by – general. W. Hulst speaks (synchronously in Dutch) – various.

Poland from the mast to the houses – Wed.

A woman with children walks by – Wed.

A city street, a girl with a horse walks by, people on the street, a panorama over the houses – various, Poland.

Ernest van Eyghen, head of a trading and industrial firm, a participant and disabled person of World War II, speaks (synchronously in Dutch) – Wed.

Birds are flying; a panorama over the houses – general, Wed, Poland.

People walk along the city street – general, Poland.

A tram passes by – Wed.

Cars driving by; road workers working – general.

Women walking by – Wed, Poland.

A fair on the street: a man cleaning fish – Wed, kr.

There are circles of cheese – Wed.

Poland from flowers to people passing by – Wed.

A woman buying flowers; another is choosing a bouquet – various.

Poland from a floating swan to a bridge – Wed.

The famous documentary film director and resistance member Bert Haanstra is speaking (simultaneously in Dutch) – various.

A city street; houses on the water; a boat is floating by – general, Poland.

Cars driving across the bridge – general, Poland onto the water.

Winter.

Houses in the forest – general. B. Haanstra throwing bird food – Wed, Poland.

A bird is pecking – Wed. B. Haanstra is standing – kr.

Men with a bicycle, women with children are walking by – general.

A panorama from houses to boats – general (autumn).

Summer.

Italy.

The town of Tivoli.

Children running up the stairs – general, cf.

Residents of one of the quarters of Tivoli near a house – various, panorama.

A woman with a child in her arms – cf.

A woman in the window – cf., panorama down.

A man carrying a box, another man approaches him – cf., panorama.

Children; young men smiling – cf.

An elderly man with crutches sits – cf. panorama along an old street and a wall overgrown with moss – cf.

Screenwriter, writer, artist and poet Cesare Zavattini speaking (simultaneously in Italian) – various.

A street of Rome – general, panorama.

Lovers kissing – cf.

People on the stairs near the fountain – general, cf.

A city street – cf., panorama.

A girl washing herself in the fountain – cf.

City – general. (above).

Panorama of the street – Wed.

A man stands in the doorway of a house – Wed.

People on the street; cars are passing – general.

Children are riding bicycles – general.

Roofs of houses – Wed, Panorama.

Fountain – Wed, Poland.

The artist Pulcini is painting – various; Poland, based on his paintings – Wed.

Road – Wed.

Pulcini is speaking (synchronously in Italian) – Wed.

A hand is painting – Wed.

The artist’s studio – Wed, Poland.

A monument designed by Pulcini on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Milan – Wed, short, general.

Monuments at the cemetery erected to Soviet soldiers – national heroes of Italy Fyodor Poletayev, Fora Mosulishvili, Nikolai Buyanov – various, Poland.

Memorial plaque – Wed, Poland.

Anti-war demonstration – various.

A girl with a child is looking out of the window, another is standing near the house – various.

The demonstration is taking place along the street – various, Poland.

Children are watching – Wed.

Banner – kr, Poland.

Resistance fighters lay a wreath at a monument – various.

Veterans salute – cf.

Resistance fighters speak – various (synchronously in Italian).

Orchestra on a city street – general.

People in columns on a city street - general, various.

Street – general.

Flag on a balcony – cf.

Rally on a square – Italians celebrate the 40th anniversary of the victory over fascism – general, cf., Poland.