During the Days of Peace Talks at the Front

The film tells about the fraternization of Russian and German soldiers on the Northern Front in November-December 1917. G. Dvinsk. A group of Russian soldiers and officers, railway employees and residents of the city pose for the camera near a large-caliber shell mounted on a pedestal. 5th Army headquarters. Commissar ND Sobakin and [members of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the 5th Army, volunteer Georgy Yakovlevich Meren and soldier Petin]. Members of the Dvinsk Military Revolutionary Committee in the car. Delegates of the Okhta gunpowder factory are at the entrance to the building of the Army Executive Committee. Kurland province, town of Illukst. Russian and German soldiers stand in front of the barbed wire, with a dilapidated building in the background. Red Cross point on the territory of the fortified camp. A group of Russian and German soldiers and officers are standing with a placard, among them a German officer with a camera and Russian journalist Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov. G. Brest. The funeral of General Vladimir Evstafievich Skalon. Russian and German funeral processions move along the railroad tracks. A brass band is playing, the soldiers are carrying wreaths, putting wreaths on the coffin with the body. The coffin with the body of General V. E. Skalon is loaded into a freight car, Russian soldiers are standing nearby.

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1917