About the fortitude and courage of Soviet people, about the moral sources of heroism. The film is based on the book by D. A. Volkogonov "The Phenomenon of Heroism".
Interviews with Soviet and foreign citizens on the topic: "What is a feat, who can be called a hero?". Photographs of K. Marx, F. Engels; film footage of V. I. Lenin (1918-1920). Newsreel of World War II, the Great Patriotic War. A. Hitler on the rostrum. The Nuremberg Trials of war criminals (1945-1946). The city of Moscow during the war, the city of Leningrad under siege. Graves of Soviet soldiers. Monuments to Soviet soldiers. Photographs of Heroes of the Soviet Union: A. Matrosov, V. Talalikhin, Z. Kosmodemyanskaya. Writer O. Gorchakov talks (synchronously) about his activities as an underground fighter, a scout behind enemy lines in Poland. Polish writer Z. Szymankiewicz talks (synchronously) about the Polish underground, the feat of O. Gorchakov. Former pilot Yu. Kozlovsky, who crashed and survived in the winter Transbaikal taiga for three days before rescuers arrived, having had both legs amputated, works in the Artificial Heart Laboratory department. Hero of Socialist Labor, head physician of the Children's Home M. G. Kontareva in her office with children. Interviews with conscripts; Soviet soldier I. Chmurov, who fought in Afghanistan and was awarded a government award, firefighter V. Romashevsky, who participated in the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident, surgeon Yu. A. Vorobyov, who performed an operation to extract an unexploded grenade from the body of private Grabovenko, journalist G. Bocharov, whose work is dedicated to the problem of heroism. Photo: pilots Yanov and Kapustin, who sacrificed their lives to save the residents of the city over which their plane crashed.




Cartoon: Child Cartoon: Pendulum – zoom in, close-up.
Poland Photo: Structure of the ancient world – close-up.
Photo: Slave owner – close-up, zoom out.
Photo – close-up.
Photo: Galley – close-up Cartoon: Pendulum – zoom in, close-up, NPL Galley Photo: Poland Medieval buildings – close-up.
Photo: Poland Knights – close-up, zoom out.
Photo: Knight – close-up, zoom in.
Photo: Knights – close-up, zoom out.
Cartoon: Pendulum – close-up, NPL Man on horseback Newsreel: Workers in a workshop – general.
Machine turning – close-up.
Boy – close-up.
Unemployed people sleeping on the street – medium.
People walking down the street with banners – general.
Milk being poured out of a can – medium.
Woman dancing – medium.
Woman with doves – medium.
They press the trigger – kr.
Bombs fall – cf.
Explosion.
Soldiers run – cf.
Cartoon: Pendulum – kr, NPL Soldier and cannon People are walking down the street – kr, Poland Young people are walking – kr, Poland People are walking down the street in Berlin – kr.
Woman with children – kr, Poland Fountain – general, run over young people Young people are sitting in the park – kr, run over A German is speaking (synchronously) – kr.
A girl is speaking (synchronously) – kr, run over A Spaniard is speaking (synchronously) – kr, run over A Finnish woman is speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Cartoon: Pendulum – kr.
Photo: Spartacus Photo: Heroes of Past Years Photo: E. Pugachev Photo: Decembrists Photo: K. Marx – kr.
Photo: Works of K. Marx – kr, Poland Photo: K. Marx – kr.
Poland Works – kr.
Photo: F. Engels – kr. K. Marx Museum in Berlin – general, Poland around the hall A German speaking (synchronously) – kr.
A German woman speaking (synchronously) – kr.
An African speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Young people on the street of Berlin – kr.
Poland Young people on the street of Berlin – kr.
Photo: K. Marx – kr.
Photo: F. Engels – kr.
Books – kr.
Photo: K. Marx – kr.
Family photo – kr.
Poland Questionnaire – kr.
Photo: K. Marx – kr.
Poland A young family walking down the street – wed.
Poland Young people walking down the street of Berlin – wed.
A German speaking (synchronously) – kr.
PNR Youth on the street – Wed.
A German speaks (synchronously) – kr.
PNR Youth walking down a Berlin street – kr.
Newsreel 1918-1920: People at the monument to K. Marx and F. Engels – general.
Lenin speaking – kr, kr.
Cartoon: PNR based on the books of the NPL Lenin Photo: Lenin – kr, departure Newsreel 1918-1921: Devastation – general.
Wagons – Wed.
PNR through the village – general.
Hungry children – Wed.
Photo of V.I. Lenin – kr.
PNR Soldiers at the ships – general.
Soldiers passing by – Wed.
Execution – Wed.
Explosion – kr.
Cavalry – general.
Explosion – kr.
Subbotnik – general, kr.
Boy at a desk – kr, panorama of legs Ploughman – cf.
Photo of V.I. Lenin – kr.
Lenin on the Kremlin square – cf.
Lenin – kr.
Lenin with a cat – cf.
Lenin – kr.
Photo: Lenin with H.G. Wells – kr.
People walking down the street – kr.
A man walking with a child – general.
A girl speaking (synchronously) – kr.
A German woman speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Panorama A car driving and overturning – general.
Panorama A man in the air on a burning rope – general, running over Panorama A man pulling a rope with a tram with his teeth – kr.
Panorama Waitress with beer – kr.
A man drinking beer – kr.
Photographer – kr.
Belly – kr, panorama of the man Cartoon: Pendulum – kr.
Newsreel 1939-1945: Hitler speaking on the platform – MC. People falling – MC. Man on the gallows – CR. Poland.
Burning building – GC. Sheaves burning in the field – GC., Poland.
Photo: Hitler – MC, zoom in.
Glasses of the dead – CR. Hair of the dead – CR. Oath of American soldiers (synchronously) – CR., zoom out.




Newsreel 1946: Nuremberg Trials.
War criminals – cf.
Robert Jackson – kr.
Court session – general.
War criminal – kr.
Movie screen – kr.
American soldiers in Soviet uniform – kr.
American soldier – kr.
American soldiers shooting – cf.
Guns – kr.
American soldiers taking pictures on top of a tank – general.
American soldier shouting – kr.
Poland Organ grinder – kr.
Poland Residents of Warsaw – kr.
Horse – kr.
Residents of Warsaw – kr., Poland of a man with one arm Parrot – kr., Poland of children Boy eating ice cream – kr.
Poland Schoolchildren – kr.
Girl – kr.
Photo: Rambo – kr., Poland Photo: American soldier – kr., Poland Poster.
Questionnaire – kr, Poland on an American soldier They are cutting an American mercenary’s hair – cf.
They are putting a hat on the mercenary – cf.
American mercenary – kr, Poland They are throwing the mercenary into the mud – cf.
An American mercenary is marching – cf.
They are throwing the mercenary into the mud – cf.
Legs – kr.
American mercenary – kr.
They are throwing the mercenary into the mud – cf.
They are smearing a man with mud – cf.
Mercenary – kr.
A girl is dancing – kr, Poland A girl and a soldier are dancing – cf.
An American mercenary is watching – kr.
They are loading a gun – kr.
They are beating people with sticks – cf.
They are throwing the beaten man – cf.
American mercenaries are walking – kr.
Priest – kr.
A mercenary with a gun – kr.
Photo: Culture Club singer Boy George – kr, run over, panorama Records – kr.
Photo: Boy George – kr, panorama, departure Photo: Boy George – kr, panorama on his brother Photo: Boy George – wed, run over Demonstrators running with flags – general.
Police cars disperse demonstrators – general. panorama Demonstrators – kr.
Demonstrator’s participant – kr.
Police disperse demonstrators – general, wed.
Police drag demonstrator’s participant – wed.
Maze Prison – general, departure panorama Robert Sands in prison – wed.
Photo: R. Sands – kr, panorama Landscape – general, panorama panorama from river to tombstone – general. panorama Young people at monument – wed.
Young people – kr.
PNR Youth at the monument PNR for a cigarette – kr.
Flowers – kr., PNR for a cigarette Rowan – kr., run over Newsreel 1941-1945 Explosion – kr., PNR Bombs falling from an airplane – general.
Woman crying – kr.
Bombs falling – general.
Explosions – general.
Soldiers loading a gun – kr.
Explosion – general.
Soldiers firing – kr.
Explosion – general.
Naval battle – general.
Explosion at sea – general.
Moscow, Sentry – general.
Muscovites chopping ice – kr.
Soviet troops marching down a Moscow street – kr. “Be a hero” poster - kr.
Tank – kr., PNR Commander – kr.
Soldiers running – general.
An airplane is flying – kr.
Guns firing – kr.
PNR Soldiers running through the smoke – general.
Sailor.
Explosions – medium.
Trench – cri.
PNR A tank driving down the street – cri.
The city of Leningrad – general.
Monument – cri.
Sculpture: Horse's Head – cri., driving away Sculpture – cri., running over Piskarevskoye Cemetery – cri.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Bombing of Leningrad – general.
Building collapsing – medium.
Explosion – medium.
PNR Explosion – cri.
PNR They are carrying a wounded woman – cri.
A dead girl lies – cri.
PNR around the workshop – general.
A boy working on a machine – cri.
They are cutting bread – cri.
They are placing bread on the scales – cri.
A worker warming his hands by the fire in the workshop – cri.
PNR around the tank – cri.
PNR Leningraders are walking down the street – cf.
A woman with buckets is walking down the street – cf. D. Shostakovich is playing – general.
Shells are flying – general.
Shells are flying – cf.
Guns are firing – general.
Airplanes are flying – general, PNR Tanks are driving down the street – general.
Residents are greeting the liberating soldiers – kr.
Soldier - kr., PNR From a tree branch PNR onto a monument to a Soviet soldier – kr.
PNR along a monument to a Soviet soldier – kr.
PNR from a tree onto the graves of Soviet soldiers – cf.
PNR along the graves of Soviet soldiers – cf.
Monument to a Soviet soldier – kr.
PNR Graves of Soviet soldiers – general.
Monument – cf.
PNR Cemetery – cf.
Urn – cf.
Graves – general, departure of the PNR Graves of Soviet soldiers – general, departure of the PNR on the monument to the Soviet soldier – categorization Newsreel 1941-1945: Soldier – categorization Soldier shooting – categorization PNR Soldiers running to attack – categorization Airplane flying – categorization Airplane – categorization Cartoon: Sky.
Zoom in on Viktor Talalikhin’s photo – categorization Burning plane crashing – categorization Explosion – categorization Photo: Nikolai Gastello – categorization Komsomol card of A. Matrosov – categorization, PNR on Matrosov’s photo PNR on Komsomol cards – categorization Soldier shooting – categorization Soldier carrying a wounded man – categorization Nurse bandaging a wounded man’s head – categorization Soldiers walking across a river – categorization Soldiers walking – categorization Soldiers are pulling horses out of the mud – cf.
Soldiers' legs – cr., Poland Soldiers are pulling a truck out of the mud – cf.
Soldiers are pulling horses out of a river – gen.
Soldiers are building a bridge – gen.




Panorama from a tree to a gravestone – Wed.
Panorama of the monument to fallen soldiers – kr.
Young man speaking (synchronously) – Wed.
Girl – kr.
Young man speaking (synchronously) – Wed, zoom in Scout Ovidy Gorchakov typing – general.
Panorama from a typewriter to Gorchakov – kr.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Panorama of the farewell to the front – Wed.
Those saying goodbye – Wed, kr.
Volunteers – kr, Wed.
Girl – kr.
Photo by Z. Kosmodemyanskaya – kr, zoom in O. Gorchakov speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Planes in the air – general.
Soldiers running through the smoke – Wed.
Photo: O. Gorchakov – kr. O. Gorchakov speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Photo: O. Gorchakov – kr. O. Gorchakov speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Photo: O. Gorchakov – kr. O. Gorchakov speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Gorchakov’s documents – kr. O. Gorchakov speaking (synchronously) – kr.
PPR Warsaw street – general.
PPR Young people walking down the street – wed.
Writer Zenon Szymankiewicz speaking (synchronously) – kr.
PPR along the walls of the Conspiracy Museum in Poznan (Poland) – kr, wed.
Museum exhibits – kr.
PPR in Gorchakov’s photo – kr.
Gorchakov’s messengers – general, PPR on the bell PPR Gorchakov’s messenger Josef Osman – kr.
Photo: Gorchakov – kr.
PPR from the road to the fence – wed.
Window – medium, zoom in Photo: Y. Osman – medium, Yuzefa Osman’s departure – medium Panorama House – medium Panorama from the trees to Gorchakov’s messengers – general Panorama Treetops – medium Newspaper with Gorchakov’s photograph – medium Photo: Gorchakov – medium Books – medium Panorama of the books – medium Gorchakov typing – medium Old Arbat – general, medium, Panorama Portraits – medium, Panorama of the artists Young man – medium Artist – medium, Panorama of the people Young man – medium A girl speaking (synchronously) – medium Yu.
Kozlovsky walking down the street – general, zoom in, medium Panorama of Kozlovsky’s legs Photo – medium Helicopters on the platform – general Panorama Pilots at the helicopter – medium Takeoff pad – medium The helicopter takes off – Wed, departure Volkov speaks (synchronously) – kr, zoom in Photo of Kozlovsky – kr Volkov speaks (synchronously) – kr Leningrad: Corridor of the thermal injuries clinic – general, panorama of the ward panorama of the hospital ward – Wed Panorama Feet walking on the grass – kr Panorama Grass – kr Operating room – Wed Surgeon – kr Panorama Patient – kr Respiratory apparatus – kr Professor Orlov operates on a patient – kr Orlov speaks (synchronously) – kr Kozlovsky – kr, zoom out to his friends Photo of Kozlovsky – kr, zoom in Panorama Boys walking with a kite – Wed Boys flying a kite – general, zoom in, zoom out A boy watches – kr PNR Snake in the air – short.
Photo by Kozlovsky – short, zoom in, PNR




Journalist Romanov – kr.
Poland Newspaper – kr.
Poland Volkov’s conversation with Kozlovsky (synchronous) – wed.
Poland Airplane takeoff – general Airplane in the air – general Kozlovsky speaking (synchronous) – wed.
Poland Kozlovsky in the department of the Artificial Heart Laboratory – general Poland Lab assistant – wed.
Kozlovsky – wed, Poland on medical equipment Letters – kr., Poland, Kozlovsky’s run-over – kr.
Artificial heart – kr.
Poland on letter – kr.
Artificial heart – kr.
Kozlovsky – kr.
Letter – kr, Girls’ departure – kr, Poland on young man (synchronous) Mother’s Monument – wed.
Memorial – wed, Poland Old mother – wed, Poland on monument Laying flowers – wed.
Memorial – Wed, panorama of flowers Laying flowers – Wed NDP on the house: Children's Home No. 2 – kr.
Head physician of the Children's Home M.G. Kontareva – Wed.
Boy – Wed.
Girl – Wed. panorama Girl – Wed.
Kontareva talking on the phone – kr., run over Kontareva walking down the street – general, run over, panorama, Wed. panorama Kontareva with a baby – kr.
Children – Wed.
Girl – kr.
Kontareva speaking (synchronously) – kr. panorama Kontareva with a girl – Wed.
Girl – kr.
Kontareva with a boy – Wed.
Girl – Wed, panorama of another girl Girl – kr.
Boy – kr. panorama Young people on the street – Wed.
Young man - cr, panorama of the girl Disco - general, panorama Komsomolskaya Pravda speaking (synchronously) - cr Young people dancing - medium, departure, panorama Young people applauding - medium The rock band "
Cruise"
performing - medium, departure Soloist of the ensemble - cr Spectators - general, zoom Rock band performing - medium, general Panorama Spectators applauding - medium Soloists of the ensemble - medium, departure Rock band performing - general, zoom Young man - cr Panorama Spectators - medium Spectators - general, zoom Young man speaking (synchronously) - cr Girl - cr Young man speaking (synchronously) - cr, departure Girl - cr Young man speaking (synchronously) - cr Panorama Closing the door of the drug addiction hospital – kr.
Lock – kr.
Drug addicts in the ward – Wed, kr, Panorama Drug addict – kr, Panorama on his feet Drug addict speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Panorama Criminal case – kr.
Drug addict speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Panorama Drug addicts in a hospital ward – general.
Drug addict – Wed.
Panorama Drug addicts in a hospital ward – Wed.
Drug addict – kr.
Hands – kr, Panorama of a lying drug addict – kr.
Hands – kr.
Panorama from hands to drug addict – kr.
Panorama Criminal case – kr, run over photo of dead person Photo – kr, run over Sick child – kr.
Girl – Wed, Panorama on his feet Sick child – kr.
Children in kindergarten – general.
Boy (synchronously) - cr.
Boy speaks (synchronously) - cr.
PNR Guys at the military registration and enlistment office - Wed.
Conscript - cr., PNR at the commission Conscript (synchronously) - cr.
Hands - cr., PNR at the conscript PNR on conscripts - cr.,




Hands fastening a belt – cr.
PNR Soldiers marching – Wed.
PNR Soldier on exercise – cr.
Soldier – cr.
PNR Soldier jumping from a tower – Wed.
Legs – cr., PNR at a soldier – cr.
PNR from a gun at a soldier – cr.
PNR Soldier at his post – Wed.
A rocket is flying – general.
Soldiers in the mountains on exercise – general, Wed., PNR PNR Soldiers running along a bridge – Wed.
PNR Soldier on a rope in the mountains – Wed.
Gorge – Wed., PNR PNR Soldier in the mountains on exercise – Wed.
PNR Soldiers descending from a mountain – Wed.
PNR Soldiers shooting – Wed.
PNR Legs – cr.
Stones flying – Wed.
PNR Soldier shooting – Wed.
Soldier's face – kr, panorama of hands Tank – wed. panorama Soldiers shooting – kr.
Tank exploding – wed. panorama Cadet Igor Chmurov during training – wed.
Chmurov – kr, run over Explosion in the mountains – general. panorama Fighting in the mountains – general. panorama Soldiers in the mountains of Afghanistan – wed. panorama Soldier running in the mountains – general.
Soldiers shooting – wed.
Explosion in the mountains – wed. panorama Soldiers running in the mountains – general.
Pouring out cartridges – wed.
Mujahideen – wed, kr, panorama Panorama Carrying a wounded man – general. panorama Soldiers in the mountains – general.
Chmurov being awarded – wed, kr.
Chmurov's parents – kr.
Congratulating Chmurov on his award – wed. panorama Chmurov's family at the table – general.
Photo: Chmurov as a child – categorical.
Essay by I. Chmurov – categorical, departure Military instructor Savinkov speaking (synchronously) – categorical.
Children in the classroom – general, panorama of the teacher Military instructor – categorical.
Boy – categorical.
Panorama Children in the classroom – general.
Igor Chmurov’s colleague Mikhail speaking (synchronously) – categorical.
Photo: Misha and Igor – categorical.
Helicopter in the mountains of Afghanistan – general, panorama of the running soldiers Panorama On the road in the mountains – general.
Preparing soldiers for battle – general.
Panorama Mines.
Soldier – categorical.
Pulling out a mine – wed.
Panorama Mine detector – categorical, wed. I. Chmurov’s mother speaking (synchronously) – categorical.
Soldiers jumping through burning rings – wed.
Panorama Training battle – wed.
Fire.
A soldier emerges from the water – Wed.
Poland A mock battle – Wed.
Poland Cadets after an exercise – kr.
Chmurov – kr.
Poland Cadets after an exercise – Wed.
Departure from the trees towards the walking Chmurov – kr. I. Chmurov speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Poland Airplanes taking off – general Airplanes in the air – general Airplane in the air – general Poland Instruments – kr.
Pilot in a helmet – kr.
Fountains – general, departure Baby – Wed, approach Girl – Wed.
Boy – Wed.
Photo: Yanov and Kapustin – kr., Poland Fountain – Wed, Poland towards children playing Photo: Airplane – kr.
Poland Sky – kr.
Photo: Yanov and Kapustin – kr., departure Newsreel 1941-1945: Shells are flying – general Soldiers running with a flag – cf.
PNR Soviet soldiers handing out bread – cf.
Soviet soldiers eating soup with German children – cf.
Girl – kr.
Painting: Madonna and Child – kr.
Pilot speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Pilot at a helicopter – kr.
PNR Airplane landing – general.
Pilot speaking (synchronously) – kr.
PNR Airplane taking off – general.




People walking down the street – Wed A young man speaking (synchronously) – kr Grass – kr, Panorama of the barbed wire Forest – general, Panorama of the sign with the NDP "
Forbidden Zrna"
A bicycle is lying on the road, Panorama of the barbed wire – general Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – general, kr, Panorama Sergeant, accident liquidator Viktor Romashevsky speaking (synchronously) – kr Newsreel from 1986: Firefighter running – Wed Builders – kr Along a construction site – Wed Builders – kr Panorama Builders laying a slab – Wed Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – general, Panorama of the helicopters Pilots – kr Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – general, filmed from the air Firefighters – medium, panorama Checking cars on the road in the Chernobyl zone – various Young man speaking (synchronously) – medium, departure Newspapers – medium, departure Surgeon Yu.
Vorobyov – medium, panorama Surgeon’s hand feeling the patient’s chest – medium Photo: Operation – medium, panorama Photo: Surgeon Vorobyov in a bulletproof vest – medium, panorama Photo: Surgeons before the operation – medium, panorama Photo: Surgeon Vorobyov – medium, panorama Panorama Vorobyov during the operation – general Hands – medium, panorama on Vorobyov Panorama Surgeon Vorobyov – medium Vorobyov speaking (synchronously) – Wed, Poland run-over Surgeons walking through the hospital grounds – kr, Poland Surgeon N. Motorin (synchronously) – kr Surgeon N. Nikiforov (synchronously) – kr Vorobyov saying goodbye to the patient Grabovenko – Wed Private Grabovenko walking – Wed Surgeon Vorobyov looking – kr, Poland Articles by journalist G. Bocharov – kr, departure Letters – kr Young men on the street – kr Man – Wed, Poland on girls Girl – kr, Poland on money G. Bocharov speaking (synchronously) – Wed People walking down the street – general Poland Girls walking down the street – Wed Poland A man walking down the street – Wed Poland A girl walking – Wed A man at a newsstand – Wed A man reading a newspaper – Wed A girl is reading – Wed.
A man is walking down the street with a newspaper – Wed.
A young man is speaking (synchronously) – cr.
A girl is speaking (synchronously in Polish) – cr.
A German is speaking (synchronously) – cr.
A young man is speaking (synchronously) – cr.
A man is speaking (synchronously) – cr.
A young man is speaking (synchronously) – cr.
A soldier is speaking (synchronously) – cr.
A pilot is speaking (synchronously) – Wed.
A girl is speaking (synchronously) – cr.
Cartoon: Pendulum – cr., NPL Galley NPL Horseman NPL Soldier and cannon NPL Lenin