Night over China

The film tells about the assistance of the USSR and other socialist countries to China, about the "treacherous" policy of Mao Zedong and the Maoists, about the Red Guards, about the militarization and aggressive foreign policy of China. Used film documents TSGAKFD USSR, GFF and foreign newsreels of the following content: landscapes of China; monuments of history and architecture; Buddhist temple; AN Kosygin's meeting with Mao Zedong in Beijing; one of the demonstrations at the gates of the Soviet embassy; the funeral of Soviet border guards who died after the Chinese shelling the Ussuriyskaya outpost; Leonid Brezhnev's speech at the XXIV Congress of the CPSU (synchronously); agricultural work in China before and after the revolution; VIII Congress of the CPS: speeches by Mao Zedong and Liu Shao-Qi, delegates of the congress in the meeting hall, guests of the congress A. I. Mikoyan, V. Ulbricht, D. Ibarruri, M. Reiman; reconstruction of the Anshan metallurgical plant, construction of a metallurgical plant in Wuhan, a cement plant in Shanxi, a sugar plant and an automobile plant in Changchun with the help of the USSR; installation of a turbine with the help of specialists from Czechoslovakia at the Shansoo power plant transfer of experience by Soviet peasants to Chinese; the destruction of sparrows in Beijing; homemade blast furnaces and steel smelting in them; swim of Mao Zedong on the Yangtze; processions of the Red Guards with quotation books; people in the square are sitting and waving quotation books; Buddha statue, paintings pasted over with Maoist posters; photographs of burning books and destruction of monuments by the Red Guards; exercises of the PRC army; Chinese children playing war; the Vietnam War; IX Congress of the CPC: delegates in the meeting room, speech by Mao Zedong, Lin Biao in the podium.

B&W

6

1971