Children of war (1988)

B.K. Kiselev shows his photograph from the war years, speaks (synchronously at home) - Wed, Poland. L.V. Khachkuruzova speaks at home (synchronously) - Wed.

Photo of 11-year-old Lyuda Khachkuruzova, her family - Wed; V.S. Nozhkin's family - kr. V.S. Nozhkin speaks at home (synchronously) - kr. A.A. Popkova speaks (synchronously) - kr.

Photo of Popkova's family - Wed.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: A girl is crying - kr.

Victory Day: a military orchestra is playing in the street - Wed; veterans are walking - Wed; people are applauding - Wed, Poland.

Women of different ages are standing, a girl - kr.

Victory Parade, spectators are applauding.

A destroyed building.

They are rocking the military leader.

Children are walking through the ruins.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Newborn babies.

Maternity hospital, women lying down.

Children's photographs - kr.

Children's railway.

Children's competitions on cards.

The building of the Palace of Pioneers.

Girls embroidering.

Photos of pioneer squads - Wed, Poland.

Modern children's railway – misc.

The building of the Palace of Pioneers - general.

The building of School No. 33; schoolchildren playing in the yard - Wed, Poland. A.F. Agafonov near the building talks about his school years (synchronously) – Wed, kr.

Books on the desk - kr, Poland. A.F. Agafonov speaking in the classroom - kr.

Old textbooks with a portrait of I.V. Stalin, with crossed-out portraits, pages - kr, Poland.

Newsreel from the 1930s-1940s. I.V. Stalin on the tribune of the Mausoleum.

Demonstrators with flags pass by, greeting Stalin.

Festive demonstration in the city - general (with military), departure.

Building - medium, panorama, departure. A.F. Agafonov speaks in the courtyard of the house about the repressed (synchronously) - medium, short, panorama.

Children are playing in the yard - various.

Boy on a swing - medium. A.F. Agafonov goes out onto the roof of the house - medium.

View of Rostov-on-Don from the roof - general, panorama.

Newsreel 1941-1945: German planes are flying (on camera) - filmed from the ground - general.

Ground (from the plane).

German pilot in the cockpit.

Bombs are falling.

View of Rostov-on-Don - general (from the plane).

Schoolchildren running - medium (rapid).

Newsreel 1941-1945: The city is burning, people are running.

Plane in the air, bomb is flying.

Photo of 12-year-old A. Popkova - short. A. Popkova's diary, hands on the diary - short, panorama. A.A. Popkova talks about the bombings in Rostov-on-Don at home (synchronously) - short.

Panorama of the house - medium, zoom in.

Newsreel 1941-1945: House.

Dead men lie there.

A tank drives by.

German soldier - short.

Street fighting.

German soldiers are walking.

Photo of a German soldier.

Blown-up house. A.A. Popkova on the street - medium, short.

Streets of Rostov-on-Don - general, medium, panorama.

A tree in the street with a flower at its foot - medium.

The building of the Rostov Hotel - medium, panorama.

Passers-by on the street - medium.

View from the window - medium. A.F. Agafonov speaking at home (synchronously) - medium.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: A child on the street.

Photos of boys - medium, medium.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: German officers greeting each other, in formation; awarding a soldier.

Everyday life of German soldiers.

Killed on the street; women crying.

Memorial plaque at the site of the execution of Rostov-on-Don residents by the Nazis - medium.

Memorial plaque in memory of the boy Vita Cherevichkin, shot by the Nazis - medium, panorama.

Children's drawings from the war years - short, panorama.

Yard - medium, panorama.

Dovecote, pigeons on the roof - general, short.

Boys-pigeon fanciers - medium, short, panorama.

Pigeons in the sky - medium, panorama.

Document - medium, panorama.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Rostov-on-Don (from an airplane).

Portrait of Vitya - short.

Monument to Vitya Cherevichkin - short, departure.

Elderly woman sitting - short.

A stand with children's photographs - Wed, Poland.

The wall of a house - kr, Poland.

A monument to fallen soldiers - kr, Poland.

An inscription on the monument to executed pioneers - kr, Poland. A.A. Popkova talks about her life during the occupation (synchronously) - kr.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: People among the ruins; getting water from an ice hole.

The fascists search an arrested man.

A child is cooking something in the street.

The beach, a wave is running in – Wed, general, Poland.

Passers-by on the street - Wed.

English lesson: A.A. Popkova in the classroom, a senior student is speaking at the blackboard (synchronously) - kr, Wed, Poland. V.S. Nozhkin plays war songs on the button accordion indoors (synchronously) - Wed, zoom in, kr; speaks (synchronously).

Newsreel 1941-1945: Soviet soldiers help children get out of basements.

A soldier puts a cap on a boy.

Photo: awarding a boy fighter; boys - a sailor, a partisan, etc.

Soldiers walk across a field.

Refugees walk along a frozen river. B.K. Kiselev speaks (synchronously at home) - short.

Interior of Kiselev's room, jacket with orders - medium, short, panorama.

Hands with an order - short.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Railway station.

A train is coming.

Soldiers are running to attack.

War photographs by B.K. Kiselev.

Collecting donations for an airplane: donating money, jewelry, bonds.

Airplanes at the airfield.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Liberation of Europe: infantry marching; explosions.

Airfield, pilots near plane. L.N. Apikov speaking - short; L.V. Khachkuruzova - short.

Photo of Khachkuruzov family - short.

Prison building - medium, panorama. L.V. Khachkuruzova in the prison yard, talking about her father's death (synchronously) - medium, panorama.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Dead bodies lying.

Women crying.

Interrogation of people (policemen?) accused of mass executions: Ilyasov, Kerimov, Gadzhiev answering questions (synchronously).

Photographs of dead bodies.

Table with court materials.

Judges.

Defendants sitting.

Monument to victims of fascist occupation, flowers near monument - short, medium, zoom in.

Building, gate - Wed, departure. P. F. Bezuglov speaking in the yard (synchronously) - Wed, cr, departure Prison building - Wed, Poland.

Photo: prison, killed – cr, cr. L. V. Khachkuruzova lays flowers at the monument - Wed. P. F. Bezuglov at the monument – cr, Wed.

A little girl is sleeping in a stroller - cr, Poland.

A woman with a child in the park - Wed.

People on a bench - Wed, Poland.

An elderly woman is sitting - cr.

Women with children on the street - Wed, cr, Poland.

They are tying a bow for a girl - cr. V. S. Nozhkin speaking (synchronously) - Wed, zoom in.

Hands are sorting through photos - cr.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Women are crying (rapid motion).

Photo of young Nozhkin - short, Poland.

Newsreel 1941-1945: A train with soldiers is moving.

Burnt carriages.

People are getting off the train (winter).

Destroyed railway station.

Summer landscape - short (from the movement).

People are getting off the carriage - short (summer).

Passengers on the platform - short.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Ruins.

Wounded soldiers are receiving assistance. L.N. Apikov on the bus - kr; speaks (synchronously) - kr, departure.

Photo of young Apikov - kr. A.N. Apikov (disabled) in the yard - Wed, Poland. B.K. Kiselyov in the hospital yard talking to doctors - Wed.

Hospital yard, patients playing dominoes - various.

Veteran on crutches - kr, Poland. L.N. Apikov at work, talking about himself (synchronously) - kr.

Photo of Apikov in his youth - kr. A.F. Agafonov (writer) at home talks about his work (synchronously) - Wed.

Agafonov's books "I'll return victorious, Mom!" etc. - kr, Poland.

Desk - Wed, Poland. L.V. Khachkuruzova speaking at home (synchronously) - short Panorama around the room, her father's portrait on the wall - Wed.

Teacher A.A. Popkova speaking in the yard (synchronously), rocking her granddaughter - short Photo of Popkova's students - Wed, Poland. P.F. Bezuglov speaking about himself on the street (synchronously) - short, zoom in.

Rostov-on-Don - general (from a helicopter), Poland.

Newsreel from the end of 1946-1950s.

Destroyed Rostov-on-Don (from an airplane); city streets.

Women working on a construction site.

Women carrying a sculpture (rapid motion).

Photographs of the film's characters: B.K. Kiseleva, V.S. Nozhkina, A.A. Popkova, L.V. Khachkuruzova, L.N. Apikov, P.F. Bezuglova - kr.