Next to the Soldier

The film is dedicated to front-line cameramen. Meeting of graduates of the camera department of VGIK in 1942; among them - Yu.V. Monglovsky. Newsreel: Burning city of Berlin. Fight on the streets of Berlin, hoisting the banner over the Reichstag. The signing by the Germans of the act of surrender. Nuremberg Trials. Corpses of people. Names of front-line cameramen. Filmed by military cameramen. Bombing. Houses are burning. Military band. Militias. Military equipment. Military train. Front-line operators. A herd of cows at the Bolshoi Theater. Barricades in Moscow. Cavalry, skiers. Cinemas "Tagansky", "Khudozhestvenny". The wounded, the killed. Monument "Nadolba" on the Leningradskoe highway. Monument to the soldiers-defenders of Moscow. Soldiers by the fire among the ruins. Speech by A. T. Tvardovsky. Sailors. Pilots. A bomb shelter in Leningrad. Firefighters. Peter-Pavel's Fortress. Wedding on the Champ de Mars. Siege Leningrad. Piskarevskoe cemetery. Siege Leningrad. Partisans. The battle for the city of Sevastopol. War veterans. The battles for the city of Breslau. Cameramen. IL-2 aircraft. The destroyed city of Warsaw. Operators. The funeral of the operator. German city. Presentation of orders to operators. Presentation of an award to cameraman Efim Davidovich Lozovsky. They are shooting "Katyushas". Fighters attack. The battles for the city of Stalingrad. Wading Sivash. Printing a newspaper on a typographic press. Military newspapers. Writers: Stavsky, I. Ehrenburg, P. Pavlenko, Sholokhov, Fadeev and others. A. Tolstoy at the Kharkov trial. Camp Auschwitz. Funeral of operators, incl. N. Nomofilova. Yugoslav partisans; cameraman V.N. Muromtsev among the partisans. Residents meet Soviet soldiers. Fighting for Berlin. Soviet generals (G.K. Zhukov and others).

B&W

6

1975