Katyusha.

Katyusha. , 1964 (20:35)

Annotation: About the participant of the Great Patriotic War (Soviet people's participation in World War II in 1941-1945) Ekaterina Demina.

Film description: Photo by E. Mihaylova during the Great Patriotic War. E. Mihaylova tells of the battles in which she participated during the Great Patriotic War and as a fighter and as a nurse. E. Mikhailova during visits to places of battles. Monument to fallen soldiers at Mount Mitridam. Sevastopol. Military parade. E. Mikhailova talking, dancing with the sailors. Chronicle: fighting at sea, land. E. Mikhailova bandage the wounded. Landscapes of the Black Sea.

Source description 1: Pictures of Katya Mikhailova during the Great Patriotic War.
Katya Mikhailova is in a group of marine battalion seamen.
Ekaterina Demina (former Katya Mikhailova) is a doctor.
E.I.Demina with the writer S.S. Smirnov walking down Moscow streets, in the Central Documentary Studio Hall watching the front newsreels about marines’ actions; talking.
A newsreel of 1941-1945 - marines’ actions in the Caspian and the Black seas.
A newsreel of 1941-1945.
The USSR People’s Artist Lyubov Orlova’s performance at the front line concert (singing the song “Veisya dymka zolotaya, pridorozhnaya” [“Curl, the Golden Roadside Mist”]).
Wounded soldiers are passing by.
Soldiers are reading a letter in a dugout.
A letter with childish paintings.
“Katyusha” (cannons named after the popular Russian women’s name) are shooting.
Military operations of the Soviet seamen on the Danube River.
The inhabitants of the city of Belgrade (Yugoslavia) are welcoming the Soviet soldiers liberators (while watching the front newsreel E.I. Demina is making comments, recognizing her comrades-in-arms on the screen, recalling battles).
S.S. Smirnov and E.I. Demina are walking down the Moscow streets talking.
In the hotel E.I. Demina is showing S.S. Smirnov her front pictures, telling him about her going to the front line, battles and comrades-in-arms.

Source description 2: The writer S.S. Smirnov, E.I. Demina and her comrade-in-arms Vladimir Petrenko are on the shore of the Kerch Gulf (near the Russian city of Kerch).
E.I. Demina is at the place of the past battles.
V.Petrenko is telling about Katya´s (E.I.Demina) heroism during the days of hard fights between the Soviet soldiers and the Hitler soldiers.
A newsreel of 1941-1945.:
A battle moment; a girl Katyusha is binding a wounded soldier in the trench.

S.S. Smirnov and E.I. Demina are laying flowers to the monument.
E.I. Demina is crying at the monument to her comrades-in arms.
E.I. Demina is picking up an old German cartridge at the place of the past fights.
The bald mountains on the Crimea ground.
A well in the dry stony desert from where Katyusha used to take water for her comrades-in-arms during the battle days risking her life.
E.I. Demina and S.S. Smirnov are drinking water from the desert well.
E.I. Demina is telling S.S. Smirnov how she used to take the water from the well in font of the Germans’ eyes.
Boats are by the shore.
A panorama of a fishing village - Desantnaya Street (street named after landing troops).
E.I. Demina and S.S. Smirnov are talking to fishermen and recalling the battles.
A panorama of the city of Kerch. (summer)
E.I. Demina is climbing up Mount Mitridat.
The monument to the Motherland Defenders on Mount Mitridat.
E.I. Demina and S.S. Smirnov are on the motor boat in the Black sea.
A panorama of the Crimean stony coast which was protected from the Hitler time fascist troops by the Soviet soldiers.
E.I. Demina is in the city of Sevastopol among the young seamen.
E.I. Demina is meeting with her comrades-in-arm Dmitry Dyukov and Vladimir Kalinovsky.
The military May Day Parade.
E.I.Demina is at the Parade.
An intercity telephone station.
E.I. Demina is talking to her husband over the telephone.
A picture of E.I. Demina of the war years.

Directors: Lisakovich V.

Operators: Levitan A.

Script writers: Smirnov S.

Composers: Tabachnikov M.