The Right to Live

A film about the history of the International Red Cross and International Humanitarian Law. Photo: Swiss citizen Henri Dunant - organizer of the Standing International Committee Photo: N.I. Pirogov, surgeon, head of the Exaltation of the Cross Women's Community of Nurses for the Wounded and Sick Warriors. Newsreel: Dasha Sevastopolskaya, nurse, heroine of the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Photo: F. Nightingale - organizer of aid to British soldiers in the Crimean War. Newsreel of World War I, World War II presents facts of barbaric methods of waging war, treatment of prisoners of war, civilians, prisoners of concentration camps. Nuremberg War Criminals Trial (1945-1946). German prisoners of war are walking along the streets of Moscow; German soldier writes a letter, reads a book, plays chess. Nurses, doctors provide medical assistance to the Soviet wounded on the battlefield, in a hospital. Soviet soldiers distribute food to the German population. Monuments of culture, history, architecture destroyed during the Great Patriotic War: Petrodvorets, a monument to the 1000th anniversary of Russia in Novgorod. Antiwar demonstrations in the USSR and in one of the African states. UN building. The building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. International Humanitarian Law Documents. Lawyer Khokhlov says (synchronously) about the basic principles of International Humanitarian Law.

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Script L. Tarnoruder, sound A. Napalkov