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Battle for Our Soviet Ukraine

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Abstract
1 part. Fascist troops are marching down the street of one of the European cities. German planes are dropping bombs on peaceful cities. Ukrainian women cry over the bodies of their murdered relatives. Ukraine is on fire. Types of Kiev, its historical monuments. Landscapes of the Ukrainian village. Haymaking in the pre-war collective farm, harvesting wheat. Dneproges dam. Coal mining in the mines of Donbass. Smelting iron and steel at metallurgical plants in Ukraine. Cotton picking on plantations. Academician T. Lysenko examines cotton. Harvesting of sugar beets, fruits, grapes. Part 2. Types of the city of Lviv. Festive demonstration in Kiev. Types of Kiev, historical monuments of the city. Fascist planes bomb the cities of Ukraine and villages. The population is moving east. Construction of barricades on the streets of Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa. Evacuation of the population from the besieged Odessa. Retreat of Soviet troops from Odessa. Part 3. Parade of troops on Red Square in Moscow. Production of weapons and shells at the Ural factories. Soviet troops are attacking the enemy. Collective farmers of one of the villages liberated from the invaders are carrying out spring sowing. Summer offensive of Soviet troops in 1943 in Ukraine. The population of the liberated cities and villages of Ukraine meets their liberators, rebuilds their destroyed houses. Part 4. Inhabitants of Volyn on the ashes of their houses. Women plow the field, bake bread in the surviving oven. Soldiers of the partisan unit SA Kovpak in the woods by the fire with their commander. The commanders of the formation are discussing the plan of hostilities. Partisans are crossing the river, freeing Soviet partisan fighters from captivity. The transition of the Czechoslovak soldiers to the side of the partisans. Guerrillas undermine enemy trains. Part 5. The offensive of the troops of the Steppe Front with the assistance of the Voronezh Front in the Kharkov region. The orderlies are bandaging the wounded. Attacking enemy positions with Katyusha rocket launchers. Part 6. Types of Kharkov. Destroyed residential and office buildings. The population of the city welcomes the Soviet troops. Speech by Professor Nikolaev at the ruins of the Medical Institute (sinhr.). The corpses of the inhabitants of Kharkov tortured by the Nazis. Citywide rally. Speech by NS Khrushchev. Fireworks in Moscow in honor of the liberation of Kharkov. Part 7. Portraits of the sons of the Ukrainian people - Heroes of the Soviet Union. Types of the city of Glukhov, liberated by Soviet troops. The destroyed city of Konotop, the ruins of the city of Artemovsk. Parts of the Soviet troops pass through the liberated cities: Stalino, Barvenkovo, Poltava. Destroyed Ukrainian villages.
Director
A. Dovzhenko, Y. Solntseva, J. Avdeenko
Color
B&W
Film ID
4960
Keywords
the great patriotic war
, fuel industry
, partisans
, metallurgical industry
, liberation of ukraine
, cities
, the atrocities of the fascists
Meterage
2070,2
Number of Parts
7
Operators
V. Afanasyev, K. Bogdan, N. Bykov, V. Vakar, M. Glider, M. Golbrich, I. Goldstein, I. Zaporozhsky, M. Kapkin, P. Kasatkin, I. Katsman, Yu. Kuhn, G. Mogilevsky, V. Orlyankin, S. Semenov, V. Smorodin, A. Sofin, V. Shtatland, S. Urusevsky, V. Frolenko, A. Shtogarenko, D. Klebanov, V. Rogachevsky
Other Creators
sound engineer E. Kashkevich, V. Kotov, artist I. Nizhnik
Release Date
1943
Sound