You Ask the Mothers

The film tells about the fate of a simple Russian woman from Rostov-on-Don, E. S. Perebeinova, who lost her son during the Great Patriotic War. Childhood photos of the son. Monument on "Malaya Zemlya". Military newsreels. E. S. Perebeinova reads a letter from her son from the front. The woman talks about her meeting in Rostov-on-Don with the Yugoslav artist George Maryanovich, a trip to Yugoslavia to the grave of her son PM Perebeinov, who was buried at the international cemetery in Belgrade. View of the monument, tombstone. Leonid Brezhnev at a meeting of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU. Meeting of the Don's mothers, who lost their sons during the Great Patriotic War, with the First Secretary of the Rostov Regional Committee of the CPSU I. A. Bondarenko. Presentation of awards. Speech by D. Maryanovich. Yugoslavian artist with E. S. Perebeinova. View of the auditorium.

B&W

1981