Germans of Russia (1990)

B/w: Winter forest, horsemen galloping – general, departure.

Staging: Hanswurst (the hero of the German people's theater) stands by a tree, speaks (synchronously) – Wed.

The monk Adalbert approaches the fire, warms his hands – Wed, Poland.

Hanswurst walks through a German cemetery, looks at the tombstones – Wed, Poland, zoom in, cr; reads an old book aloud (synchronously) – cr.

A Christmas tree in the hall (of a palace or castle), Hanswurst looks - Wed, departure.

Karl Ivanovich decorates the Christmas tree, speaks (synchronously) – Wed, cr.

Staging: oprichnik Heinrich von Staden, associate of Peter I Franz Lefort, geographer and naturalist Georg Steller, Empress Catherine II in the hall, speaking (synchronously) – short, zoom in, zoom out.

Cartoon: photographs of Germans – Russian colonists – short from ZTM to ZTM. Newsreel from 1918: Autonomous Region of the Volga Germans: people leaving the building.

Sign on the building of the village council.

People signing up, they are given something.

City street, passers-by walking.

Church building.

People at an exhibition.

Exhibition exhibits.

Weaving loom; weaver at work.

Newsreel from the 1930s: I. V. Stalin, V. M. Molotov, M. I. Kalinin, and others walk along Red Square and climb up to the Lenin Mausoleum. I. V. Stalin, K. E. Voroshilov, and other members of the Politburo on the mausoleum’s tribune.

Festive military parade on Red Square – various (from the top).

Germany: German soldiers walk past. A. Hitler on the tribune.

Nazis throw books into a fire.

Airplane at the airfield.

Soldiers exit the plane.

Leaders of the Western powers greet each other (indoors).

Newsreel from 1939: Conclusion of the Non-Aggression Pact between the USSR and Germany: V. M. Molotov enters the room, signs the Pact; a representative of Germany signs the Pact. I. V. Stalin smiles – cro.

German newspaper.

Fascist symbols – cro.

Hitler drives by in a car; Germans greet Hitler on the square.

Cartoon: Operation Barbarossa.

Border post. A. Hitler unfolds a map.

Map of military operations.

Newsreel from 1941: Bomber in the sky, bombs falling.

Explosions.

Soldiers load guns, run.

Guns fire.

German soldiers knock down the door of a house.

A woman with a child in her arms after the bombing.

People (peasants) crying after the bombing.

Killed children lie.

The village is burning.

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the resettlement of Germans (1941) in German - cf.

Map - cf.

Volga at sunset, waves - various.

Taiga, river, snow in places - general (from a helicopter).

Writer, former GULAG prisoner Georg Hildebrandt speaks indoors (synchronously) - short.

B/w: Staging.

Hanswurst enters the church – cf.

Gunsmith Kaspar Fiedler confesses to him (synchronously) – cr., Poland.

Hanswurst leaves the church – cf.

Newsreel from the 1950s: Virgin lands (from a helicopter).

Settlement (from a helicopter).

Men building a house.

Modern settlement – general, medium, panorama.

Former director of the virgin lands state farm Arno Arnold speaking indoors (synchronously) – general.

Books by L. I. Brezhnev "Virgin Lands" and others – short, zoom in.

Photo by L. I. Brezhnev – short.

Newsreel: A field of ears of corn; a combine harvester in the field; a combine operator approaches the combine, at work.

People at work on the threshing floor.

People (Russian Germans) waiting for exit visas near the building of the FRG embassy – various.

Document check at the entrance to the embassy grounds – medium.

People entering the grounds – medium.

A sign saying "documents in Russian and German" in the courtyard of the embassy – short.

Waiting in the corridor of the embassy – general.

An embassy employee talks to Artur Fröhlich, who wants to leave the FRG (synchronously in German) – Wed, kr, Poland.

A journalist from Altai, Iosif Shlekher, speaks in the embassy reception area (synchronously) – kr.

A car drives out of the embassy gates – Wed.

Seagulls over the Volga – Wed.

Volga at sunset – general, Poland.

Pier on the Volga – Wed.

Evening Saratov – general.

Old building – general.

Heinrich Grout, founder of the German Renaissance Society, speaking indoors (synchronous) – Wed, Poland.

B/w: The town of Marks, Saratov Region, November 1989, a meeting of town residents against the restoration of the autonomy of the Volga Germans: people in the hall with posters: "The historical truth is that the Volga region is Russia", "No to the 1941 borders in the Volga region!" - various.

A war veteran with medals speaks (synchronous) – cri.

Those present applaud – Wed.

Rally of residents of the town of Marks on the street – Wed, Poland; residents oppose the return of the Germans to the Volga region (synchronous) – various; They are walking with placards – general, Poland.

Newspapers in German and Russian – medium, influx.

Summer landscape, road – general.

Village street – general. G. Marx: prosecutor’s office building – medium, general; policemen in the yard – medium.

Inside, the prosecutor of the city of Marx, Alexander Shevchenko, is speaking about a legal issue (synchronously) – medium.

A destroyed church (outside and inside) – general, medium, Poland.

A German cemetery: destroyed monuments, a cross lies there – small, Poland.

A pastor conducts a service (synchronously in German), blesses children and teenagers – small.

Poland, medium.

A prayer house (outside) – medium.

German parishioners carry a sculpture of the Virgin Mary out and carry it along the street – medium, general, Poland.

Russian residents are watching – general, Poland (summer).

A house in the village, children playing nearby – general (summer).

Geese walking down the street – general, Poland.

A village store (building) – general.

A saleswoman measures out fabrics, speaks (synchronously) – Wed.

A German saleswoman is speaking (synchronously) – Wed, Poland.

Moscow: people waiting for visas, in front of the building of the FRG embassy – various; faces – categorical.

Mr.

Adam, a counselor at the FRG embassy, is speaking indoors (synchronously in German) – categorical.

A passport with the inscription "USSR. General civil passport" - categorical.

A bus is driving, the building of the Sheremetyevo-2 airport - general.

Russian Germans leaving for the FRG say goodbye to those seeing them off in the airport: people are hugging, crying – Wed, categorical, Poland.

An airplane in the air – general.

Meadows, fog – general (from an airplane).

Germany, Lubeck: panorama from the canal water to the houses – medium, panorama.

Old streets – medium (from the movement).

Cobblestone pavement – small, panorama.

Mrs.

Ewald, an emigrant from Russia, speaking at home (synchronously) – medium, panorama.

Old house – medium, panorama (from the top).

Mansion of Martin Clemens, an emigrant from Russia, a car driving into the garage – medium. M. Clemens’ family on the veranda – medium, small. M. Clemens speaking (synchronously) – small, panorama.

Stuttgart street (old) – general, panorama.

Organ in the church – small.

Pastor reading a sermon – medium.

Candles – small.

Parishioners during the service, leaving the church, saying goodbye to the pastor – medium, panorama.

Notes – PNR, female choir sings (synchronously in German) – cr.

Germany, Stuttgart: rides in the Luna Park – Wed, Poland (evening).

Celebration in honor of the reunification of the two Germanies: people dancing, some in carnival costumes – Wed, Poland.

People in a cafe – Wed, Poland.

Young people drinking beer from large mugs, faces – dark, Poland.

An illuminated building, buses passing by – Wed.

Summer morning landscape in Central Russia: a river, meadows – general, Poland.

Overgrown lake, sunset – general.

Ruined fence, a cross lying on the ground – general.

Abandoned house – general, Poland.

B/W: A. Arnold indoors talking about German autonomy (synchronously) – dark, Poland.

The Volga, sunset – Wed, general, Poland.

Russian Germans leaving for Germany at Sheremetyevo-2 airport: saying goodbye to those seeing them off, crying – various things.