Arrival of the Train

A film about the "train of Russian history", which departs from the tsarist era, to revolutionary events, wars, the reign of I.V. Stalin, the "thaw" and arriving in the 1990s on the Russian-Chinese border. Fragment of the Lumiere brothers' silent documentary short film Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station (1895). The film uses the following newsreels: [1912]: View of a train on a railway platform. Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich, with his wife Alexandra Fedorovna and children on the platform. View of the departing train. [1920s, winter]: A group of armed Red Army soldiers on a railway platform; one of them has a banner with the NDP: "PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE." A train with people sitting and standing on it passes by the Red Army soldiers standing in the ranks. The orchestra is playing. People with banners. View of a passing train with a poster: "GO TRUE ROAD, COMRADES!" and the image of V.I. Lenin. [1930s]: View of a passing train with the NDP: "STALIN". People on the construction of the railway. 1941-1944: View of a passing train from the NDP: "JOSEPH STALIN USSR". View of a flying plane. Explosion of shells. Soviet soldiers, participants of the Great Patriotic War in a train carriage. View of the destroyed bridge. 1945: View of trains with banners from the NDP: “MOTHERLAND! MEET YOUR SONS - THE WINNERS "," GLORY TO THE VEORABLE WARRIORS OF THE HEROIC RED ARMY, THE VICTOR'S ARMY "," WE ARE FROM BERLIN "; portraits of I.V. Stalin. People meet winners. Moscow, 1957: The building of the Kursk railway station. View of the emblem of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students. People are dancing in the station building. Participants of the festival from the train waving their hands, those seeing them off stand on the platform. Amur Region, April, 1978: General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev on the platform of the Skovorodino station meets with the builders of the BAM. The type of banner with the NDP: “THE TRUST OF THE KOMSOMOL JUSTIFY! AMBASSADORS FROM BASHKIRIA ". Far East, 1990-1995: View of a train approaching the platform. People on the platform are waiting. From the windows of the train carriages, the Chinese sell things. A policeman is walking alongside sellers and buyers. View of the departing train.

B&W

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1995