Echoes of the Past War

Chronicle documentary about the Second World War. A woman with a child on a stretcher. The plane is dropping bombs. The pilot is in the cockpit [of the bomber]. Japanese children with daggers and rifles. Japanese soldiers, officers, military leaders. Close-ups of A. Hitler, G. Goering, W. Keitel. German soldier with a broken gun (1943 Battle of Kursk). Rooks nests. The peasants plow the land. Sokha. Trench. Stoves and chimneys of a burnt house. A cat, an old woman in a conflagration. Destruction. The soldiers are listening to the gramophone, shaving. The movement of the tank past a column of German prisoners. A military band is playing. The soldiers are dancing, playing the accordion. The soldiers say goodbye at the station, the train (echelon) departs, the soldiers are in the carriages. The foal is galloping. Meeting of demobilized soldiers. 1945 Crimean Conference. Close-ups of F. Roosevelt, W. Churchill, I. V. Stalin. Conversation. Present: VM Molotov. A. A. Gromyko. A US military plane makes an unsuccessful landing on board an aircraft carrier, crashes. Airplanes are crashing. Mortally wounded pilot. Japan. Tokyo city. 1930s Japanese Minister of War Tojo. November 1936 Signing of the "Anti-Comintern Pact". A. Hitler welcomes the Ambassador of Japan Tanaka. B. Mussolini speaks to the soldiers. The soldiers are washing their horses. Chronicle dedicated to the events of 1939 on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin-Gol River. Germany. Berlin. March 1941 A car with Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka drives through the city streets. Matsuoka greets Hitler, greets the crowd from the balcony. Ribbentrop presented. Moscow city. Kremlin. Matsuoka and I. Stalin raise their glasses. V. Ya. Molotov and Matsuoka sign an agreement on April 13, 1941. Chronicle footage dedicated to the defense of Moscow in 1941. Chronicle footage dedicated to the events in Pearl Harbor, USA on December 7, 1941. Japanese pilots on the plane. Japanese soldiers in Burma. Chronicle footage dedicated to the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, 1945 Demobilized Soviet soldiers return to their homeland by train (resting in the carriage). Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 in Moscow. The Kwantung Army on the march. Combat operations of the Soviet and Japanese troops, including the 1st and 2nd Far Eastern fronts of the Soviet Union. Crossings. The movement of equipment on mountain roads. Landing. Commanders R. Ya. Malinovsky, A.M. Vasilevsky, K.A. Meretskov, Marshal Choibalsan. Japanese kamikaze suicide pilots. Kamikaze drink sake. Kamikaze planes explode over the sea. Liberation of the territories of Korea and China. Mao Zedong speaking. Manchukuo. Emperor Pu-I. People bowing before the emperor. Japanese officers. Japan. Tokyo city. The trial of Japanese criminals. The former emperor Pu-I is being led, Pu-I is giving testimony. Great Wall of China (filmed from an airplane). Japanese soldiers on the streets of a Chinese city. The soldiers beat and bury people alive. The signing of Japan's unconditional surrender on September 2, 1945 aboard the US battleship Missouri. Present: M. Shigemitsu (Japan), General MacArthur (USA), K. N. Derevianko (USSR). May 3, 1946 meeting of the International Tribunal for the Far East. The defendants get off the bus, including Minister of War Tojo. Session of the court. Tojo gives testimony (synchronously). Soviet judge Golunsky is present. Defendants Matsuoka, Oshima. Ruined city. Women are praying. Destroyed Stalingrad. Column of the Reichstag. Soviet soldiers salute on the roof of the Reichstag. Chancery building. A. Hitler's office. Monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union A. Stepanov over the Dnieper. Stepanov's mother is EF Stepanova. Japan. G. Tokyo. The Japanese are praying in the temple. Military parade.

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