A biographical film about the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Le Duan.
Newsreel. French troops landing in South Vietnam. Vietnamese soldiers in action. A column of French prisoners marching. The people welcome Vietnamese soldiers marching through the streets of the city and President Ho Chi Minh on the occasion of the liberation of North Vietnam. American troops in Vietnam. American air force bombing. Destruction, fires, a cloud of poison gas. Vietnamese artillery in action. Vietnamese soldiers with a flag on the balcony of the palace. Celebrations marking the end of the war and the reunification of North and South Vietnam. Photographs by Le Duan. Le Duan's speeches at the III and IV Congresses of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh's funeral (1986), and the 25th Congress of the CPSU. The working people of Vietnam are rebuilding the economy destroyed by the war. Le Duan's trips around the country, meetings with industrial workers, peasants, and workers at the nuclear power plant; Visit to the village where he was born. The Vietnamese delegation headed by Le Duan visits Moscow; meets with M. S. Gorbachev; signs the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation; visits the Moscow Machine-Tool Plant named after S. Ordzhonikidze. Unloading the Bakuriani ship with cargo delivered from the USSR in the port of Haiphong. Le Duan visits Laos, Cambodia, and India. Meetings and conversations with the leaders of the Indochina countries and Indira Gandhi. The following speak out about Le Duan (synchronously): General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Van Linh, comrades in the struggle Nguyen Thi Loan, Cao Minh Linh, Nguyen Thi Mat, Le Duan's wife Bai Vanh, and daughter Zieu Muoi. The funeral of Le Duan (1986). Workers pass by the coffin, saying goodbye to Le Duan.




Newsreel from 1986: Photo of Le Duan - kr.
Funeral of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Le Duan - cf.
Carrying a wreath - cf.
Le Duan in the coffin - cf.
Censer - kr.
People standing by the coffin - cf., Poland.
People passing by, saying goodbye to Le Duan - various.
Woman crying - various.
Soldiers carrying a wreath, laying it at Le Duan's coffin - cf., Poland.
People standing by the coffin - cf.
Flowers - kr, Poland.
Poland from a poster on a table with a portrait of Le Duan, flowers and smoking sticks - cf., Poland.
Peasants placing smoking sticks at Le Duan's portrait - cf.
People carrying a wreath - cf.
Le Duan's portrait on the table - cf.
Peasants' faces - various.
Vietnamese village - Wed, Poland.
A woman is sitting on the threshold of a hut - general.
Village, people on the street - general.
Le Duan's fellow villagers are sitting on the threshold of a house - general.
Le Duan's friends and neighbors are talking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - various.
Village on the bank of a river - general, Poland.
Newsreel: Photo of Le Duan in his youth - Wed, departure.
Prison yard on Con Dao Island where Le Duan was held - Wed, Poland.
Prison cells-cages - Wed, Poland.
Shackles - short, Poland.
Graves of prisoners on the island - Wed, zoom in.
Con Dao Island - general.
Photo of Le Duan in his youth - Wed, zoom in.
French paratroopers jumping out of an airplane - Wed.
Paratroopers in the air - general, Wed.
Paratroopers landing - various.
Photo of Le Duan - medium, run over.
Vietnamese fighters crossing the mountains with weapons - general, medium.
Crossing a river - general.
Vietnamese teacher speaking (synchronously in Vietnamese) – categorical.
Children listening, talking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - general.
School desk pierced by a shell - categorical.
Children's faces - categorical.
Work of an underground printing house in the jungle - general.
Vietnamese workers making shells at an underground factory in the jungle - various.
Newsreel: Vietnamese fighters firing a cannon - medium.
Vietnamese soldiers running and firing across a field - various.
Vietnamese artillery firing - various.
A cannon firing - medium.
A column of French prisoners of war is marching - general, medium.
There is a French flag on the ground - cf.
The Vietnamese are carrying a banner; they are hanging a Vietnamese flag - cf.
Vietnamese soldiers are riding on a tank with a flag - general.
The people are greeting the Vietnamese fighters - cf.
A tank is riding - cf.
A soldier with flowers is walking down the street - cf.
Girls are giving flowers to the soldiers - cf.
The people are rejoicing - cf.
An old woman is talking to the soldiers - cf.
A soldier is picking up a child - cf.
The first president of the republic, Ho Chi Minh, is on the podium; he is greeting the people - general.
The people are greeting Ho Chi Minh – cf., general.
The Vietnamese flag is fluttering - cf.
Concentration camp prisoners are walking - general, cf., cr.
There are children among them - cr., Poland.
Concentration camp prisoners are sitting on the ground - cf.
A soldier of the Saigon puppet army is beating a Vietnamese - cf.
A woman fights with a soldier - cf.
A Saigon army soldier beats a Vietnamese man - cf.
A woman cries - kr.
Newsreel: Barbed wire of a concentration camp - general, Poland.
Photo of a Vietnamese boy behind bars - kr, run over.
Photo of Le Duan - kr, run over.
A street in Ho Chi Minh City, run over the door of a house - general.
Le Duan's comrades-in-arms are sitting at the table: Nguyen Thi Loan, Cao Minh Ly and Nguyen Thi Mot - general; they share memories of Le Duan (all simultaneously in Vietnamese) - various.
The current General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Van Linh and the film's director S.N. Pumnyanskaya pass by - various.
Nguyen Van Linh speaks (synchronously in Vietnamese) - cf.




Photo of former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Le Duan - short, departure.
Vietnamese guests on the observation deck near the university - various, Poland.
Nguyen Van Linh speaking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - cf.
Newsreel: A column of Vietnamese workers marches - general, Poland.
People clear away rubble - various.
American paratroopers jump out of a helicopter - cf., general.
Vietnamese hide in the jungle - cf.
An American tank in the jungle - general.
Vietnamese soldier talking on the radio - cf.
Launching missiles - various.
A woman praying - cf.
Portrait of Ho Chi Minh - cf.
Funeral of the first president of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh - various.
People pass by, crying - cf., Poland.
Ho Chi Minh in a coffin – cf.
Flags - cf.
Le Duan comes to the podium, speaks (synchronously in Vietnamese) - Wed.
People stand in the square and listen - general.
Young Pioneers are crying - Wed, Poland.
Prime Minister of the DRV Pham Van Dong is crying - Wed.
Portrait of Ho Chi Minh - short, zoom in. 3rd Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party; meeting hall; delegates applaud - general, Wed.
Le Duan is speaking - Wed.
Listeners - various.
An airplane is flying - Wed.
Bombs are falling - various.
The face of an American pilot - short.
A cloud of poisonous gas - general.
A girl is crying on the ruins - Wed, Poland.
Explosion - general.
A Vietnamese soldier is standing - Wed.
Vietnamese artillery is firing - general.
A soldier is looking through binoculars - Wed.
A soldier in a trench - general.
Fire on the battlefield - general.
Photo by Le Duan - Wed.
Nguyen Van Linh speaking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - Wed, run over.
Vietnamese soldier running with a flag; climbing the steps of the palace in Saigon - general.
Tank driving through the gates - general.
Vietnamese soldiers running with a flag - general.
Tank firing - general.
Soldiers with a flag on the balcony of the palace - Wed.
Tear-off calendar - cro.
Clock on the tower - cro, departure.
Balloons and slogans - Wed.
People rejoicing - various.
Surf - Wed.
Newsreel: An American flag lies in the surf - Wed, panorama.
Ruins - general, panorama.
A broken doll lies - Wed.
Slums; children - general.
They lift a drug addict - Wed.
A prostitute is standing by a column - general.
A beggar woman is sitting with a baby - general.
Children are sitting on a tombstone - Wed.
Work on restoring the destruction - Wed.
Le Duan with people on the ruins – Wed, general.
The 4th Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party, the meeting hall - general.
Applauding in the hall - general, the People's Republic of Poland.
Le Duan speaking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - Wed, general.
Female delegates are standing - Wed, the People's Republic of Poland.
Le Duan among the delegates - Wed, the People's Republic of Poland.
Nguyen Van Linh speaking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - Wed.
Photo of Nguyen Van Linh with Le Duan - Wed, departure.
Newsreel: Le Duan with people in the post-war years - general.
The factory - general, the People's Republic of Poland.
Le Duan with workers in a factory workshop - different, Poland.
A car is driving - Wed.
A woman with buckets is walking across a field - general, Poland.
Newsreel: Le Duan with peasants - Wed.
A peasant is watering the beds - Wed.
A rice field - general, Poland.
A girl is harvesting rice - Wed.
Newsreel: Le Duan with peasants in a village - Wed, Poland.
A woman is cultivating a rubber tree - Wed.
A cut in the tree, sap is dripping into a bucket - short, Poland.
Newsreel: The building of a nuclear power plant - general, Poland.
Plant workers with Le Duan are walking along the corridor - Wed, Poland.
Le Duan is inspecting the nuclear installation - Wed.
Installation - Wed, zoom in.
Le Duan with workers at the station - general, Poland, Wed.
River, flooding in the city - general, Poland.
Le Duan with people at restoration work – medium, general, Poland.
Le Duan's comrade-in-arms Vu Thang reminisces (synchronously in Vietnamese) - medium.
Newsreel: Le Duan with Vu Thang and girls in his village - medium, Poland.
Le Duan talking to a girl, with peasants - small, general.
A car drives up to the house - general.
Le Duan greeting the peasants - medium, Poland.
Vu Thang speaking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - medium.
Photo of smiling Le Duan - medium.
Village street - general, Poland.
A girl knits a broom, another spins - medium.
A woman sews on a sewing machine – small.
Boys are standing with a bicycle - medium.




Vietnam.
A panorama of the city - general.
Across the river.
A woman's eyes - kr.
Monuments of the memorial to the victims of aggression in the village of Song My - kr, wed, Poland.
A flower and smoking sticks at the foot of the monument - kr.
Monument - kr. b/w. photo: aggression in the village of Song My - kr; American soldiers; victims of repression - various.
A flower at the monument in Song My - kr.
Sky - general, Poland.
A street of Hanoi, a pagoda - general.
In the laboratory - Doctor of Biological Sciences, Le Duan's daughter Zeu Muoi with a lab assistant - kr.
A flask with a preparation - kr.
Zeu Muoi with a lab assistant by the shelves - kr, Poland.
Zeu Muoi shares her memories of her father (simultaneously in Russian) - kr, wed.
The face of the lab assistant - kr.
Newsreel: Moscow, the Kremlin - general.
Red Square, the monument to Minin and Pozharsky - general.
Lenin's Mausoleum; changing of the guard - cf.
The Vietnamese delegation headed by Le Duan lays a wreath at the Mausoleum - cf., Poland.
Wreath - kr.
Le Duan's face - kr.
Mausoleum - cf.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - kr.
Eternal Flame - kr.
Laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - cf.
The Vietnamese delegation at the Tomb - cf.
Red Square - general.
Lenin's bust in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses - kr.
The Column Hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses on the day of the 25th Congress of the CPSU - general.
People stand and applaud - cf.
Le Duan speaks from the rostrum of the congress - general. zoom in.
The building of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses - general.
The Vietnamese delegation visits the S. Ordzhonikidze Machine-Tool Plant - general, Poland.
The plant's workers give flowers to the members of the Vietnamese delegation - Wed, Poland.
The delegation in the plant's workshop - general.
Le Duan among the workers - cr.
The delegation inspects the machines - Wed.
The plant's workers greet the Vietnamese delegation - Wed.
Le Duan speaks in the plant's workshop (synchronously in Vietnamese) - various.
The workers listen - Wed, Poland.
Vietnam: The port in Haiphong - general, Poland.
The Soviet ship "Bakuriani" is moored at the pier - general.
The Soviet flag flutters on the ship - Wed.
A Vietnamese worker is standing - cr.
Working in the port - Wed, Poland, general.
A box of Soviet equipment in a port – cf.
Soviet tractors - cf.
Soviet and Vietnamese workers greeting each other - varia.
Newsreel: USSR: Le Duan greets workers of the S. Ordzhonikidze plant - general.
Meeting at the plant - general.
Moscow, the Kremlin - general.
In the St.
George Hall of the Kremlin, the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee meets with the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Le Duan - cf., general. M.S. Gorbachev and Le Duan sign a treaty of friendship and cooperation – varia.
Congratulations on the occasion of the signing - cf.
Kampuchea.
The People's Republic of Poland from waving flags to the palace - general.
Kampucheans greet Le Duan - general, the People's Republic of Poland.
Le Duan greets the leaders of Kampuchea - cf.
Laos: The Laotian people greet Le Duan - cf.
Le Duan greets the leaders of Laos - various.
India: Le Duan with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – pass by at the airport - general.
Conversation with Indira Gandhi - general.
The leaders of Vietnam and India drink wine - Wed, Poland.
Le Duan plants a tree - general, Wed.
Vietnam: Le Duan's comrade Nguyen Van Linh comes to Le Duan's house; he is greeted by Le Duan's wife Bai Van - general, Poland.
A statuette; portrait of Le Duan - Wed, Poland.
Nguyen Van Linh and Bai Van drink tea - various.
Shelves with books - Wed, Poland.
Bai Van speaking (synchronously in Vietnamese) - general.
Photo: Le Duan and Bai Van - various.
Photo: a girl watering flowers - Wed.
Newsreel: A woman with a child walking down the street - Wed, Poland.
Vietnamese riding bicycles - general, Poland.
Port - general.
Work in the port – general, Wed.
An excavator working in a quarry - general, Wed.
Hydroelectric power station - general, Poland.
A welder working - Wed.
A BelAZ truck driving - cr.
An oil rig at sea - general.
A worker on the rig - cr.
A machine tool working - cr.
A worker at the machine tool - cr.
Newsreel: Photo of Le Duan with workers - Wed, zoom in, zoom out, N Le Duan and the peasants beating drums - general, Poland.
Le Duan talking to people - Wed.
Le Duan speaking from the podium - general.
Le Duan talking to girls; they laugh - Wed.
Children giving Le Duan flowers - general, Poland.
Le Duan drinks wine from a common jug - general.
Le Duan walks with people - general.
Cartoon: freeze frame - Le Duan's face - cf.