My Fathers Order

The documentary film "Order of My Father" is based on the memoirs of the author - director E.V. Gushchin about the years of wartime childhood and his ideas about the Great Patriotic War according to the stories of his father, military pilot V.V. Gushchin, who made 550 combat flights during the war. The film uses fragments from the documentaries "War in the Air" and "Battle for Berlin" of the 20-episode epic "The Great Patriotic War ..." (1979). The film was shot in the Republic of Tatarstan. 1st part. Tatarstan, Kazan. Film director E.V. Gushchin at the TV screen. A photograph of E.V. Gushchin in his youth. Newsreel footage of the 1950s: military aircraft at the airport; takeoff; tank training; rocket takes off from the launcher. Tatarstan, Kazan. View of the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree (No. 137121) of the military pilot VV Gushchin. Photos of V.V. Gushchin from the family archive. Military newsreels: German and Soviet aircraft in the air; bombardment of populated areas; Soviet and German pilots on airplanes; people run along the city street, firefighters put out the fire; military airfield; takeoff of Soviet military aircraft; air battle. Tatarstan, Kazan. Film director E.V. Gushchin at the TV screen. Newsreel footage of the 1940s: an old residential building in Tbilisi; room furnishings. Photos of V.V. Gushchin in wartime. On one of the photographs there is an inscription: "September 28, 1942. In memory of my life friend Tamarochka, a good mother who is raising two young patriots of the Motherland: Edik and Alik. Your husband Vovka Gushchin." Military newsreels: Soviet planes in the air; air battle; bombs fall from planes; Soviet artillerymen at anti-aircraft guns. Georgia, Tbilisi. View of Stepan Shahumyan Street (now Ketevan Great Martyr Street). Residential building number 78, where the family of V.V. Gushchin lived before the war. 2nd part. Georgia, Tbilisi. A sign with a list of tenants on the front door. Staircase in the house. Street view. Military newsreels: seeing off recruits; freight train with tanks on the way. Tatarstan, Kazan. Monument at the grave of Soviet aircraft designer V.M. Petlyakov on the main alley of the Arsk cemetery; the inscription on the marble board: "Outstanding aircraft designer Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov. 1891-1942." Photo portraits of V.M. Petlyakov. Military newsreels: production workshop of an aircraft plant; in the shop there is a banner with the inscription: "The front needs - we will do it!"; workers in the shop; ready-made aircraft. Tatarstan, Kazan. Painting by People's Artist of the USSR Kh.Yakupov, which depicts a meeting of workers of an aircraft plant on the occasion of the transfer of combat aircraft to the Soviet army. Workers, pilots by airplanes (photo). Military newsreels: Soviet bombers in the air; bombs fall from planes; explosions; hostilities in Germany; Allied troops in one of the German cities; Soviet tanks on the streets of a German city; Soviet soldiers on vacation; Soviet aircraft in the air; Marshal G.K. Zhukov and other military leaders at the command post. 3rd part. Military newsreels: military operations in Germany; Soviet aircraft in the air; bombs fall from planes; broken German technology; blown up bridge. Photos from the family archive of V.V. Gushchin: soldiers are making a bench; a row of benches near the stage; accordion player on stage; the soldiers are dancing. Military newsreels: traffic controller on a Berlin street; explosions; bombardment of the city from the air; destroyed buildings in Berlin; men butcher a killed horse; the building of a residential building collapses; the capture of the Reichstag; German German prisoners of war; white flags in the windows of Berlin houses; German children eat bread on the street; distribution of food to residents of the city; Soviet pilots are photographed; the inscription on the body of the aircraft - "Stalingrad. Berlin". Tatarstan, Kazan. The painting depicting the victorious fireworks in 1945 on Red Square. View of the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree V.V. Gushchin. Tombstone on the grave of V.V. Gushchin. Monument to the Soldier-Liberator. Military cemetery.

Color

3

2007