- Title: VM-1364
- Summary: THE SOVIET ARMY - STALINGRAD: SOVIET DOCUMENTARY TELLING THE STORY OF THE BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD. (NOW VOLGOGRAD). SOVIET BATTLE SCENES OF THE EVENT AND CAPTURED GERMAN BATTLE SCENES OF EVENT. (THE BLOODIEST BATTLE IN HUMAN HISTORY).
- Description:00:01:28 - TITLE IN RUSSIAN: "VICTORIOUS STALINGRAD - (COLOR) PAN COLORFUL SKY OVER THE VOLGA RIVER, AND OTHER SCENIC AREAS ALONG VOLGA, AT SUNUP. PAN STALINGRAD BUILDINGS ON FIRE, BURNING INTENSELY, DURING WWII MCU (B/W) COLUMNS GERMAN SOLDIERS WITHOUT HELMETS MARCHING THROUGH FARM FIELD, TOWARDS CAMERA. GERMAN TANKS KICK UP DIRT AS THEY SPEED TOWARDS CAMERA, ZOOM IN CLOUD OF DIRT, CU FEET GERMAN TROOPS MARCHING THROUGH CLOUDS OF DIRT. LS COLUMN GERMAN SOLDIERS, TRUCKS RAISING CLOUD OF DIRT AS THEY ROLL THROUGH FIELDS, BACK TO CAMERA. MS THREE SOVIET SOLDIERS IN WWI-LIKE TRENCH DURING BATTLE. 00:02:42 - VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN TANKS AND ARTILLERY BOMBARDING SOVIET POSITIONS. SHELLS EXPLODING ON BATTLEFIELD. SOLDIERS ON BATTLEFIELD UNDER FIRE, SOME FALL DEAD OR WOUNDED. 00:03:11 - (COLOR) ANIMATED MAP SHOWING GERMAN ADVANCE TYO STALINGRAD AND POINTS SOUTH, TO TAKE OVER THE CAUCUSES AND CAPTURE STALINGRAD TO CUT OFF THE COUNTRY FROM ITS OIL, COAL AND WHEAT SOURCES. MLS GERMAN OFFICERS PEER TO OTHER SIDE OF VOLGA RIVER WITH BINOCULARS. VOICE OVER "THE FUHRER PROMISED THEM ESTATES BEYOND THE VOLGA AND OTHER REGIONS OF RUSSIA". 00:03:36 - NUDE GERMAN CAVALRYMEN RIDE HORSES INTO WATER TO BATHE THEM AND THEMSELVES. SMILING YOUNG GERMAN SOLDIER POSES FOR PHOTOS; ANOTHER SITS ON GROUND KNIFE IN HAND, TAKES BITE OUT OF LARGE PIECE OF FRUIT; MS GERMAN SOLDIERS PULL FEATHERS OFF DEAD CHICKENS, AS ANOTHER COOKS THEM ON CAMP FIRE. CU CHICKEN COOKING ON FIRE; TWO GERMAN SOLDIERS ENJOY SMOKING PIPE, CIGAR, AND CHATTING. OTHERS DIG IN WITH SHOVELS. VOICE OVER: "THEY PICTURED THEMSELVES AS FUTURE LANDLORDS OF THE VOLGA REGION". 00:04:00 - SOVIET FILM SHOWS SOVIETS DIGGING TANK TRAPS, MANNING ARTILLERY AND MACHINE GUNS. COLUMN SOVIET TROOPS TREK DOWN ROAD, BACKS TO CAMERA. VOICE OVER: "EVERY SINGLE PERSON HERE CONSIDERED HIMSELF A DEFENDER OF THIS LAND". 00:04:15 - ABOVE PAN STALINGRAD BEFORE BEFORE THE WAR. VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN BOMBER SQUADRONS IN FLIGHT, VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN BOMBERS AND STUKA DIVE BOMBERS DROPPING BOMBS. MS SOVIET ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNITS AT THEIR GUNS. DIVE BOMBERS PEELING OFF FOR ATTACK, ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS FIRING ON THEM, DOG FIGHTS. GERMAN BOMBERS. LS BOMBS DROPPING OUT OF BOMBER, GROUND EXPLOSIONS ON CITY. FALLING IN FLAMES. 00:05:21 - GERMAN OFFICER, BACK TO CAMERA, PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS AND DISTANT EXPLOSIONS. VARIOUS VIEWS BATTLE SCENES, GERMAN SO SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN CITY OF STALINGRAD. 00:05:48 - MS SOVIET SNIPER TAKES AIM, GERMAN SOLDIER IN BOMBED OUT HOUSE FALLS DEAD. graphic. SOVIET SOLDIERS INSIDE BOMBED OUT ROOM, RUN UP STAIRS. VARIOUS SOVIET, GERMAN FILM SHOWING DEADLY STREET FIGHTING IN STALINGRAD. 00:06:04 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWING GERMAN ADVANCE INTO STALINGRAD. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS BATTLE. ( COLOR) PAN GIANT DAM. VOICE OVER ".DAM STANDS AS MONUMENT TO THAT IMMORTAL EXPLOIT". 00:06:36 - B/W GERMAN SOLDIERS ADVANCING ALONG RAILROAD TRACKS. (COLOR) TANK MONUMENT OF BATTLE SITS ALONG TRACKS. (COLOR) PAN MONUMENT AND WETLANDS AREA WITH LOGS LYING ALONG SHORE AS VOICE OVER TELLS OF THAT BATTLE. MORE B/W BATTLE SCENES INSIDE CITY. 00:07:21 - VARIOUS COLOR SHOTS, DAMAGED BUILDINGS IN STALINGRAD, STANDING AS MONUMENTS TO THAT BATTLE AND B/W SHOTS OF FLAMING BUILDINGS DURING CONFLICT. MORE HOUSE TO HOUSE BATTLE SCENES RECORDED BY GERMAN AND SOVIET CAMERAMEN. 00:07:54 - (COLOR) POST WAR FIL PARK IN STALINGRAD WITH CITY BUS PASSING IN B/G, PAN TO MONUMENT OF TANK. THREE SMALL SCHOOLGIRLS CHATTING. PAN MODERN APARTMENT HOUSE COMPLEX, TO ANOTHER WAR MONUMENT, WHICH WAS ONCE A BATTLEGROUND. B/W RUSSIAN WAR FILM TANKS, TROOPS AND SUPPLIES ON THE MOVE ON ROAD ON SNOWBOUND COUNTRY ROAD. TROOPS ON BOATS CROSSING VOLGA RIVER. (COLOR) AERIAL VIEW OF BOATS ON VOLGA (POST WAR). 00:09:09 - CU WRIST WITH WRIST WATCH TELLING 9:00 AM. VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE CANNONS FIRING BARRAGES, AND SOVIET COMMANDERS IN THEIR TYPICAL RUSSIAN WOOLEN HATS, PLANNING ON MAPS AS COUNTER OFFENSIVE BEGAN ON NOVEMBER 19, 1942. LS BARRAGE OF ROCKETS MAKE EERIE "WOOSHING" SOUND AS THEY FIRE. TANK BATTALIONS SPEEDING THROUGH SNOWY FIELDS. SOVIET BOMBERS IN FLIGHT. SOVIET TROOPS CHARGING, PASSING DESTROYED GERMAN TANKS AND DEAD TROOPS. LS. ARMY OF SOVIET SOLDIER CHARGING THROUGH THE SNOWY FIELDS YELLING AND CHEERING AS THEY JOIN WITH COMRADES COMING THE OTHER WAY, LOTS OF HUGGING AND CHEERING AS THEY MEET. CU MAP SHOWING THE SOVIET CONQUEST. 00:11:06 - SOVIET SOLDIERS MEETING ON BATTLEFIELD AND EMBRACING EACH OTHER. 00:11:22 - SURRENDERING GERMAN SOLDIERS. GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL EXITS LIMO TO SURRENDER TO HIS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART. LONG COLUMNS OF SURRENDERED GERMAN SOLDIERS. 00:12:18 - (COLOR) AERIAL PAN OF FORMER BATTLEFIELD, NOE LARGE FARMLAND ALONG THE VOLGA. "VOICE OVER "THIS BECAME THE TURNING POINT OF WWII". B/W AERIAL VIEW OF A DEVASTATED STALINGRAD CITY WITH NARY AN SCATHED BUILDING STANDING. CU NEWSPAPERS ALL OVER WORLD TELLING STORY OF STALINGRAD. 00:12:54 - MS VICTORIOUS SOLDIERS LIGHTING EACH OTHERS CIGARETTES. MARCHING THROUGH CITY. (COLOR) CU MAN'S CHEST COVERED WITH MEDALS AS OLD VETERANS MEET IN POST WAR STALINGRAD 30 YEARS LATER. VARIOUS SHOTS MEETING OF OLD COMRADES WHO STILL CALL THEMSELVES "STALINGRADERS". ELDERLY WOMAN WITH BABUSHKA POSES WITH MEDALS ON HER COAT LAPELS. GOOD FACE HOTS OLD TIMERS. BRIDE PLACES FLOWERS ON GRAVE OF FALLEN AS GROOM WATCHES. 00:14:57 - VARIOUS VIEWS SMALL CHILDREN PLAYING AND INTERACTING WITH THEIR VETERAN GRANDPARENTS. ELDERLY VETERAN WITH ONE ARM PLAYS WITH CHILD IN CARRIAGE. 00:15:22 - YOUNG BOYS PLAYING ON MONUMENT OF TANK GUN TURRET. BOy CRAWLS ALONG GUN BARREL. 00:15:39 - AERIAL VIEW SHIPPING ON VOLGA RIVER, AND RECONSTRUCTED BEAUTIFUL CITY OF STALINGRAD (VOLGOGRAD). "A CITY THAT WAS RE-BUILT BY THE ENTIRE COUNTRY". GOOD AERIAL SHOTS OF ENTIRE CITY. VARIOUS VIEWS CROWDS VISITING CITY AND ITS HISTORIC POINTS ALONG VOLGA. MANY COME TO MOURN DEAD RELATIVES. 00:17:27 - VARIOUS SYMBOLIC CARVINGS OF FACES ALONG THE STONE CLIFFS DEPICTING THE BLOODY BATTLE. MS TWO ELDERLY VETERANS AND ONLY SURVIVORS OF ENTIRE BATTALION. HUGE STATUE OF WOMAN WITH SWORD DWARFS VISITORS PASSING BELOW. 00:18:19 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1364