The Heroic Deed.

The Heroic Deed. , 1966 (51:8)

Annotation: A film story about Feliks Dzerzhinsky (a Russian revolutionary).

Film description: Chronicle: the city of Petrograd in the 20-ies. Photos Dzerzhinsky. Chronicle: the city of Moscow in the 20 years, refugees, victims of hunger, struggling with the secret police after the fact of grain, check the food stores (Moscow), arrested Nepmen help street (Moscow). The signing of the Brest peace. 5-th Party Congress. Mirbach Ambassador of Germany in Moscow. Funeral MS Uritsky (Petrograd).

Source description 1: Black clouds over the city of Petersburg.
Opened drawbridge over the Neva river under black cloud.
Reflection of houses in waters of the Neva river and channels.
Figure of an angel on the Alexander Column.
Newsreel of 1917:
Crowds of people, soldiers, sailors in the Dvortsovaya Square [“Palace Square”]; remaining barricades of cadets in the square.
Walls and pillars of the Zimny palace [“Winter Palace”], punced out by bullets.
Destroyed studies and halls in the Zimny palace
Faces of Russian soldiers, participants of October battles.
Face of an old farmer.
Batches of revolutionary leaflets.
Leaflets are scattered over the square, streets from a tram.
Leaflets – address of revolutionary committee to the public.
Detachments of soldiers are marching to Smolny Palace – headquarters of proletarian revolution.
Portrait of Lenin.
Smolny: soldiers near a building, on stairs.
Photos of Felix Dzerzhinsky from youth until last days of his life.
Window of prison in which Felix Dzerzhinsky was locked up.
Prison cell; table in the cell at which Felix Dzerzhinsky was working, writing diaries and letters.
Prison wall; blizzard covers the wall.
Prison gates, a bell near the gates, a sentry on a tower, blizzard is lifting around columns of snow.
Manuscript of Felix Dzerzhinsky, written in the prison.
Graffities, scratched on cell walls by detainees.
Newsreel of 1917:
Streets of Petersburg.
Revolutionary soldiers near an armored car.
Cruiser “Avrora” [“Aurora”] on the Neva river.
Miltarry sailors are having lunch on the street, on the snow.
Workers and soldiers are marching on the street with a revolutionary slogan.
Faces of gentry.
Buildings of foreign embassies in Petersburg.
Panorama of foreign diplomats, watching revolutionary events in Petersburg.
A car with USA flag is passing by.
Panorama of deserted palace of Countess Panina in the night.
Deserted palace inside.
Panorama of stairs and hall.
Faces of Soviet authority boycott masterminds, who visited palace of countess Panina, their central point of assembly.
Photo – Countess Panina on felon's dock under tribunal.

Source description 2: Newsreel of 1917:
Building of State Bank in Petersburg.
Sabotaging bank clerks, who hadn't recognized revolutionary government.
Panorama of faces.
Long lines for bread in the city.
Printing machine is working.
1917 newspapers.
Newsreel of 1917:
Purishkevich – the Black Hundred leader, who was preparing a monarchist revolution.
Building walls and barricades on the streets and squares of Petersburg for the defense of the city from the assault of General Krasnov's units.
Vladimir Lenin's letter to Felix Dzerzhinsky regarding the necessity of use of special steps for the struggle with counterrevolution and sabotage.
Building, in which Secret Police headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, has started its work.
Photo: Secret Police head Felix Dzerzhinsky in his office.
Photo: first security officers; Felix Dzerzhinsky in the group of security officers.
Photo – animation: revolutionary detachments headed by security officers set off to fight against counterrevolution.
Photo: plan of Petersburg of 1913.
Newsreel of 1917:
A hand is drawing black crosses and marks on the plan, marking secret counterrevolution headquarters.
Disguised officers, White Guardists, robbers, anarchists in Petersburg.
Panorama of anarchists with a black flag.
Emblem of anarchists "God -Cossack chiefman - is with us".
Newsreel of 1918:
Moscow streets: deserted, unpopulated in evening hours.
A beam of a projector is sliding on roofs and buildings.
A man is running along the street in the night.
A stopwatch is ticking.
Felix Dzerzhinsky and the group of security officers.
According to the plan designed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, security officers and Red Army soldiers are conducting an operation aimed at the elimination of bandit anarchists groups on the streets of Moscow: the groups are spreading over the city, fighting the armed bandits settled down in different buildings, checking passers-bys' documents on the streets.
Killed security officers in a fight with bandits.
Bandaging is made to wounded Red Army soldiers and security officers.
Anarchists, dislodged from their headquarters on Malaya Dmitrovka street.
In the yard of a building, now the Leninsky Komsomol Theater [“Young Communist League”]
theater, on Chekov street, the sufferers of the bandits are identifying their belongings.
Security officers are returning belongings, amassed by robbery by the anarchists, to the people.
Soviet patrol is conducting a search to the detained suspicious passer-by.
Quiet streets of Moscow in the night after defeat and disarmament of the anarchists.
A tram is passing by, a street cleaner is sweeping a street.
Pigeons on the pavement.
Subversive explosions and fires in Moscow.
Workers save from fire property of storehouses, blown up by subversives.
Active counterrevolution fighters.
Photo: Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Photo: Felix Dzerzhinsky with combat friends, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky – professional revolutionary, lawyer, Ivan Ksenofontov – worker, member of Bolshevik party starting from 1903, Joseph Unshliht – revolutionary struggle hero in Russia and Poland.
Photo: Yakov Peters – Latish labourer, revolutionary, Vrvara Yakovleva – revolutionary, member of an underground organization, Mikhail Kedrov – Doctor of Medicine, leader of the armed forces of workers on 1905 barricades, Martyn Lacis – former teacher, aged bolshevik.
Common security officers: Latish girl Elza Goodman, Nikolai Mikulin, burned in steam locomotive's furnace.
Fountain.
Photo: panorama of security officers.
Newsreel of 1918-1923:
Red Army battle on Civil war fronts: shell explosions, guns fire, cavalrymen offensive.

Source description 3: Panorama of secret police evidence regarding one espionage organization, exposed in Soviet republic.
Scheme of connections of espionage organization.
Photos of the participants of the espionage organization: Emil Pagot (Frenchman, former tsar army colonel), Pol Duks, Ilya Kurts.
Photo of Ilya Kurts.
Photo: Judenich, to whom encrypted reports were coming, in his office.
Spies' encrypted reports, intercepted by security officers.
Panorama of leaflets "Be aware of spies" with Lenin's slogan to protect Soviet power.
Newsreel of the 1920-s:
Diversion on Kazan railway: burning locomotive, derailed train, wounded passengers.
Burning echelons and ration storehouses.
Portrait of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who headed fight with counterrevolution in the country.
Farmers with families go in search for bread.
Deserted village.
Hungry children on Russian roads.
Dying from hunger on roads.
Long lines for bread in towns.
Hungry, famished child with a slice of bread in hands.
Shop window inscription "No bread".
Black market in a town.
Traders with bread on a railway station.
Traders' train boarding.
A train is passing; traders on roofs of the coaches.
Ration detachments headed by security police leaving for the fight with bread jobbery, for withdrawal of bread surplus in villages.
Maria Spiridonova – leftist social revolutionary leader, who came out against withdrawal of bread.
Social revolutionary Karelin, supporting Spiridonova's opinion.
Coffins with those dead from hunger are brought to a cemetery.
Corpses from coffins are duped in a mass grave.
Wealthy peasant's barn.
A padlock on the barn's door.
A wealthy peasant's face.
Peasant's log huts are burning, lit up by kulaks.
Funeral of peasant activists, killed by enemies of the revolution.
Ration detachments in a village take away from kulaks bread, hidden in pits.
Extremely famished children receive bread, soup.
Newsreel of 1918:
Text of Brest Treaty.
Signing of Brest Treaty.
Mirbach – German ambassador in Moscow.
Moscow.
Bolshoi theater during the 5th Soviet Congress of the Republic.
Congress delegates are entering the building.
Yakov Sverdlov is entering the building to the meeting of the Congress.
Animation - photo: Panorama of Vladimir Lenin going to the Congress.
Newsreel of 1918:
Maria Spiridonova and leftist social revolutionary are going to the Congress.
A group of diplomatic corps representatives is entering the building of Bolshoi theater to the meeting of the 5th Soviet Congress of the Republic.

Source description 4: Newsreel of 1918:
Building of German embassy in Moscow.
Leftist social revolutionary Blumkin.
False mandate with forged signatures of Dzerzhinsky and Ksenofontov, with the help of which Blumkin had penetrated into German embassy.
Ambassador Mirbach in a living room, in which he was killed by leftist social revolutionary Blumkin.
Embassy's living room after explosion of a bomb, thrown by a provocateur.
Panorama of the headquarters of leftist social revolutionary.
Felix Dzerzhinsky is going to the headquarters of leftist social revolutionary in a chase of Mirbach's killer.
Anxious hooting of a locomotive, factories.
Social revolutionaries uprising in Moscow.
Fuss on the streets, anxious articles in newspapers.
Destroyed buildings during counterrevolution revolt of social revolutionaries and White Guardists in Yaroslavl.
The mastermind of the revolt, right-wing social revolutionary Boris Savinkov.
Headquarters of leftist social revolutionary in Moscow, where Felix Dzerzhinsky was held in captivity.
Detachments of workers are arming to fight social revolutionaries.
Streets, buildings in the center of Moscow, from which rebels were kicked out.
Latish gunners are heading for Bolshoi theater, where 5th Soviet Congress of the Republic was held, to arrest the leftist social revolutionary fraction.
Meeting of the V Soviet Congress of the Republic.
Felix Dzerzhinsky, freed from social revolutionaries' captivity, in a group of security officers.
Destruction by rebels in towns.
City of Vologda, where foreign embassies were quartered after the defeat of social revolutionary mutiny.
Foreign ambassadors – Pool, American, Noulance, Frenchman and others who took part in the conspiracy of British ambassador Loccart against Soviet power.
Savinkov's foreign passport.
Savinkov's photo.
Newsreel of 1918:
A convoy is escorting Savinkov's accomplices to revolutionary tribunal.
Building of Military Revolutionary tribunal.
People on the streets of Moscow after the adoption of the Constitution during the 5th Soviet Congress of the Republic.
Komsomol carnival on the streets of the city.
Movie screen on a street.
A mechanic is loading a cinecamera.
Frames of an animation of the fight with world bourgeoisie, with counterrevolution.
Read Army soldiers are leaving for Civil war.
Animation: a map, representing White regiment and interventionist march to the Soviet republic.
Newsreel of 1918:
English interventionists are boarding a train.
Anti-Soviet English poster.
Interventionist tanks are closing.
Counter revolutionists are shooting communists.
White Guard gang in a village.
Smashed up buildings and corpses of village activists, left after gang's raid.
Bandits are hanging a security officer.
Cut heads of security officers.
Killed security officers, fighting the bandits near Kostroma.
Uritsky's certificate – head of Petrograd secret police, shot from the corner.
Uritsky's funeral.
Newspapers with an information of attempted murder of Lenin, about Lenin's heavy wound.
Bulletin of Lenin's health condition.
Light in Kremlin apartment in which heavy wounded Lenin kept his bed.
Moscow Kremlin in the night.
Photo: Fanny Caplan.

Source description 5: Slogans "Death to bourgeoisie", "Long live red terror".
Portrait of Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Newsreel of 1918:
Convoy near court building.
Uritsky killers are coming out of a car, Lenin assassination attempt organizers, delivered to the court.
Barristers entering the court.
Vandervelde, former Belgian minister, among the barristers.
The court.
Lunacharsky, Pokrovsky, Krilenko are giving speech for the prosecution.
People in Red square with slogans, demanding severe punishment for the instigators of the white terror.
Files of proceedings, started by secret police headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky for a counterrevolution group of English diplomat and spy Loccart, called "Tactical center".
Proceedings of monarchists – terrorists.
Panorama of the accused.
Terrorists' weapons.
Security officers are unloading weapons from revealed counterrevolutionaries' depot.
Photos: Felix Dzerzhinsky in the night working in his office, Felix Dzerzhinsky with his wife and son.
Swiss landscape.
Photo: Felix Dzerzhinsky with his wife and son in Switzerland, Felix Dzerzhinsky in plainclothes while in Switzerland.
Rails, weave of rails, shot from fast going train.
Shadow from running locomotive on the ground.
Slogan "Every minute is dear".
Animation: decrees of Peoples' Commissars Council, signed by Vladimir Lenin.
Portrait of Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Manuscripts of Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Photo: Felix Dzerzhinsky working.
Record of evidence, signed by Dzerzhinsky, regarding a security officer, who punched an arrested person.
Handwritten document by Vladimir Lenin regarding cleanliness of secret police composition.
Panorama of the proceedings of Pavlov the slanderer.
Decree of the Board of secret police, written by Dzerzhinsky, regarding death penalty to Pavlov for malicious provocation.
Felix Dzerzhinsky's manuscript regarding security officer's character, secret police regulation.
Felix Dzerzhinsky among security officers.

Source description 6: Newsreel of the 1920-s:
Destruction on a railway after еру
Civil war: destroyed bridge, ruined rails, derailed locomotive, burned and blown-up coaches, knocked-down telegraph poles.
Felix Dzerzhinsky working in his office.
Workers repairing and cleaning up a railway from debris, repairing a locomotive in a depot.
A repaired locomotive is coming out of a depot.
Moscow: busy traffic, city reportage.
Merchants' advertisements.
Mogutov's shop, Kulikov's furniture shop.
Money are pouring.
"Jofren" hats, a mannequin with a hat.
People are going to a restaurant.
Drunk merchants in a restaurant.
Speculators.
Crawfish in a dish.
A Gipsy is dancing in a restaurant.
Drunken men, women drinking wine, eating.
Neglected children on city streets.
Neglected children, dirty, ragged, playing cards, begging.
Sukharev marketplace.
Crush in the marketplace.
Neglected children in the marketplace.
Felix Dzerzhinsky – Head of the Commission for the improvement of children's life.
Children, picked up by security officers on the street, in a community.
Echelon with neglected children; children are given bread.
Former neglected children in a community.
Newcomers' heads are cut with a hairclipper.
Children, wearing clean clothes, are smiling.
Monument of Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Felix Dzerzhinsky is giving speech at a business meeting.

Directors: Makhnach L.

Operators: Gromova Z., Kasatkin P.

Script writers: Zenin S., Novogrudskiy A.

Composers: Geviksman V.

Announcer: Konsovskiy A., Khmara L.