The commissioned film is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia and Africa (OSNAA), which gained freedom as a result of the national liberation struggle. The film uses film and photo documents from the archives of the USSR, the GDR, Egypt, the Republic of India, the Mongolian People's Republic, and Japan.




Brief description of OSNAA. Chronicle of 1945: A gramophone playing.
A destroyed house.
Military equipment on the streets.
Soldiers listening to records.
A tank drives past a column of German prisoners.
Japanese prisoners under escort.
Soldiers lay down their rifles on the ground.
Warships at sea.
The signing of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan on board the battleship Missouri.
Soldiers at their guns.
Stormy waves.
Vietnamese guerrillas cleaning their weapons.
A man takes a hidden weapon out of the water.
A man descends into an underground passage.
A detachment of guerrillas on the road.
An elderly man.
Artillery firing.
Infantry attack, explosions.
Military operations in Indonesia.
Burning houses.
Soldiers on the march.
Chronicle of 1947: Popular unrest in India.
Shooting near the walls of the Red Fort.
Changing flags.
Welcoming cries of the crowd. J. Nehru releasing a dove.
A flock of pigeons above the fortress.
The Chinese welcome the victorious revolutionaries.
A tank drives down the street.
A detachment of soldiers marches.
Demonstrators with portraits and flags.
Chronicle 1952-1953: Egypt, a crowd in the square.
Military leaders.
Popular unrest.
Photograph.
Tanks on the streets of Cairo.
The crowd welcomes the soldiers.
Photographs.
Cracked earth.
An ox turns the wheel of a water mill.
People walk to the factory building.
A ship at the pier, pipes stretch along the ground.
Portrait of the President of Egypt, Gaddafi Nasser.
Chronicle 1955-1957: Bandung, national flags of the countries participating in the Conference of Asian and African Countries in front of the building.
Conference participants.
Photographs.
Fragment of the conference.
View of the pyramids and roofs of houses.
Ships in the Suez Canal.
People are searched at the entrance to the port.
View from above on the crowd.
Gaddafi Nasser announces the nationalization of the canal.
Photograph.
People raising the flag.
The crowd welcomes the government.
A view of the government building from behind the trees.
Ships in the canal.
The lighthouse.
The Suez Crisis, the bombing of Egypt.
A radio operator transmits a message.
Guns firing.
A tank attack.
A fighter jet in the sky.
Destroyed houses.
The landing of the Anglo-French troops in Port Said.
People on the ruins of houses.
Crying women.
Participants in a rally.
Pages of newspapers.
Soldiers boarding a ship.
The stern of a British ship.
Flags on the roof of Cairo University.
Fragment of the 1st Conference of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia and Africa.
The French military is preparing to test an atomic bomb in the Sahara.
Explosion.
Peace marches in memory of the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Laying flowers in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
A woman rings a bell.
Flocks of birds.
People praying.
Paper lanterns on the river.
Chronicle of 1960: Conakry, state flags.
A car is driving along the road.
Participants of the 2nd OSNAA conference.
Nehru D. -- Indian politician
05.1945 02.09.1945 15.08.1947 1952-1953 18.04.1955-24.04.1955 26.07.1956 10.1956 12.1957 04.1960
Japan Vietnam Indonesia India China Egypt Guinea




Chronicle 1960-1963: State flags.
Excerpt from a meeting with P.E.Lumumba.
Congolese residents greet the Prime Minister.
Railway.
Port cranes.
People sitting on the ground, looking in the windows.
A man under guard of soldiers.
Soldiers disembarking from an airplane.
Belgian soldiers in Congo.
Entrance to the parliament building.
Excerpt from a meeting.
Popular unrest.
January 17, 1961, Elizabethville (Lubumbashi) airport, soldiers transporting the arrested P.E.Lumumba.
January 22, 1961, emergency session of the OSNAA in Cairo.
Poster hanger.
Protest demonstrations in different countries of the world.
Moscow, Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University (RUDN).
Students in class.
Cartoon: independent states of Africa in 1960. Waves crashing on the rocks.
Fishermen on the rocks.
Caravan in the desert.
Hippos peer out of the water.
Man on a palm tree.
Nuts fall to the ground.
National African dances.
An elephant runs across the savannah.
A solemn procession on the road.
An antelope crosses a river.
Soldiers on horseback.
Predators chase down prey.
Festive folk processions and dances.
Aerial view of an aboriginal settlement.
Jungle along the banks of a river.
Flags in front of the UN building.
Delegates of the 15th UN General Assembly.
Fragment of the meeting.
Soldiers with dogs, baiting of the civilian population.
Starving children and adults on the street.
A boy grinds grain.
People carry baskets on their heads.
Miners in the coalface.
Newspaper page.
A man collects coins from the counter.
Weighing gold bars.
Security searches workers at the checkpoint.
Workers on a plantation, a woman swears at a soldier.
Public unrest.
Killed and wounded in the streets.
A detachment of soldiers.
A helicopter flies over a river (shot from the cockpit).
A ship on the river.
A column of military trucks.
Training of Guinean guerrillas. A. Cabral among the guerrillas.
A detachment of the people's army goes through the jungle.
Soldiers sail in a canoe.
A soldier with a grenade launcher.
View of houses.
Shootout.
Explosions.
Communication line.
People's faces.
Angolan soldiers led by A. A. Neto study a map.
Guerrillas check and load weapons.
A forced march through the jungle.
A soldier in ambush at night.
A man lights the fuse.
Explosion.
Night shootout.
A burning truck.
Guerrillas in the jungle.
Mozambican guerrillas.
A flag in the wind. E. Sh.
Mondlane.
Women walk along a path, carrying a load on their heads.
A woman with a child.
A military helicopter lands in the jungle.
Residents flee, the village burns.
Lumumba P.E. -- Congolese public and political figure
1960-1963 03/21/1960 09/1960 01/17/1961 01/22/1961 06/1963
Moscow Congo South Africa Guinea Angola Mozambique New York




Chronicle of 1958: Fighting in the streets of Algerian cities and villages.
A family takes their children away.
Faces of soldiers.
Troops under the flag of the Algerian Republic.
Fragments of fighting.
Civilians fleeing Algeria.
A tent city of refugees on the border with Morocco.
Mass protests by participants in the anti-war movement in France.
The population of Algeria celebrating victory.
Cartoon: Vietnam on the map.
Vietnamese rice fields.
Photograph.
Encyclopedia pages.
Bombing of Vietnam in August 1964. Photographs.
An airplane drops bombs.
Explosion.
Soldiers disembark.
A detachment on the march.
Alternation: soldiers abusing civilians, burning villages.
Vice President of the OSNAA Nguyen Thi Binh speaking.
Bomber planes.
Soldiers on the streets.
Children running and hiding.
A classroom in a destroyed school.
Airplanes spray chemicals over forests.
Photo.
Bombing of countryside, villagers fleeing.
Burning houses, clouds of smoke, girl’s face.
Wounded children.
Pomegranate seeds in palms.
Demonstrations on the streets of cities around the world.
Vietnamese artillery shoots down planes.
Captured American pilots.
Woman with a child in her arms.
Cartoon: Middle East on the map.
Women’s army of Israel. G. Meir in front of microphones.
First National Bank of the USA in New York.
Weapons production.
Missiles.
Loading bombs onto planes.
Bombing of Egypt on June 5, 1967. Tanks moving towards the Suez Canal.
Israeli soldiers.
Evacuation of civilians.
Refugee tent city.
Children queuing for drinking water.
Destroyed settlements.
Elderly man.
Girl with a baby in her arms.
Smoke over a mosque.
Protest demonstrations.
Palestinian guerrilla training.
Soldiers marching down the street.
Fragment of a parliament session.
View of a mosque.
Cairo, flags in front of the building.
Fragment of the 5th OSNAA conference.
Cartoon: Portuguese colonies on the map - Guinea Bissau, Angola, Mozambique.
A woman with a machine gun and a child on her shoulders.
A lesson in an open-air village school.
A meeting of partisans over a map.
Cabral A. (Jassi A.) -- politician of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. Meir G. (Meerson) -- Israeli politician and statesman
09.1958 02.08.1964 05.08.1964 05.06.1967 01.1972
Algeria Morocco France Vietnam Israel Egypt Guinea-Bissau Angola Mozambique New York




Soldiers working in minefields.
Explosion.
Transportation of the wounded.
View of the city in the late evening.
Revolutionary events in Portugal.
Panorama of Maputo.
Streets of Maputo.
Miners in Mozambique.
Peasants harvesting cotton.
Factory workers.
Streets of Luanda.
Fragment of the emergency international conference of OSNAA. A.A. Neto at the microphones.
Street in front of the entrance to the store.
Girl with a child on her shoulders.
Arrival of foreign mercenaries; many cover their faces as they pass in front of the cameras.
Photographs.
People at stands with photographs.
Demonstrations in support of the liberation movement.
Cartoon: South Africa on the map.
Popular unrest, clashes between the population and the police.
Newspaper pages.
Members of the African National Congress (ANC). N.R. Mandela.
Explosions (shot from a helicopter).
Shooting of a school demonstration in Soweto.
Demonstrations against apartheid.
Partisans of Namibia. S.D.Sh.
Nujoma among soldiers.
Adults and children in the camp of the South West African Peoples Organization (SWAPO).
Fighting in the cities of Vietnam.
Soldiers with flags on the balcony.
The destroyed American consulate.
A man throws an American flag to the ground.
A machine gun on the ground.
Meeting of R.W. Reagan and M. Begin.
Bombing of Beirut.
Residents of destroyed neighborhoods.
Photographs of the dead and their relatives.
The US flag.
American troops in Lebanon.
Warships.
The deck of an aircraft carrier, pilots running to helicopters.
The helicopter takes off.
Salvoes of ship guns.
A marine all-terrain vehicle.
Starving African children.
Airplanes in the sky.
Explosions on the seashore.
American military equipment.
A woman prepares food at the entrance to a reed hut.
Shelling of the area from a helicopter.
A reconnaissance plane takes off from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
Soldiers next to a truck.
Bombardment of coastal waters.
Neto A.A. -- Angolan statesman
02.1974 04.25.1974 1976 09.1981 08.1982
Portugal Angola Mozambique Guinea-Bissau South Africa Namibia Vietnam Lebanon




A woman with a baby.
Children being given food.
Streets of Algiers.
Flags of the countries participating in the 6th OSNAA Congress.
OSNAA headquarters in Cairo.
A meeting of the secretariat.
Secretary General Nouri Abdel Razzaq speaking.
The secretaries work with documents and letters.
OSNAA President Abdel Rahman El-Sharkaoui speaking.
Photograph.
Sea waves.
Photograph of G.A.Nasser.
Funeral procession.
Photographs by E.Sh.
Mondlane. A.Cabral in the newsreel.
Public unrest after the assassination of A.Cabral.
Archive photographs: A.A.Neto, K.Jumblatt, Youssef es-Sibaie, I.P.Gandhi. S.M.Machel in the newsreel.
The crashed plane.
Forensic experts are working at the scene of the tragedy.
An article with a photograph in the newspaper.
Palm trees, surf.
Traffic.
Residents of Asian and African countries.
Construction of industrial facilities.
Factory workers.
Hydroelectric dam.
Smiling man.
Watering gardens.
Female factory worker.
Workers stacking boxes.
A camel is loaded onto a ship.
Surveyors walking through a field with flags.
Harvesting.
Women pounding grain.
An elderly man.
Construction of new houses.
Happy children.
A woman with a child.
Storm waves.
Cabral A. (Jassi A.) -- politician of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. Machel S.M. -- politician of Mozambique
1969 1970 1973 1986 05/27/1984
Algeria Egypt Guinea-Bissau Tanzania Mozambique South Africa