Grief Cannot Be Someone's.

Grief Cannot Be Someone's. , 1972 (43:17)

Annotation: The film tells about the American agression in Vietnam.

Film description: The tragedy of children in the Vietnam war, the killing of children by American soldiers.

Source description 1: The writer K.M. Simonov is telling about the movie from the screen, thanking camera operators, who were shooting the newsreel in Vietnam, reading an off-screen commentary.
Running and playing children.
Corps of Vietnamese children.
Vietnamese women, mourning for killed children.
A Vietnamese child in the coffin.
A crying man.
Group photographs of two American families.
Crying Vietnamese children.
A child among ruins of the house.
Vietnamese peasants.
The face of an old man.
Ho Chi Minh.
Ho Chi Minh with children.

Source description 2: Ho Chi Minh with children.
A group of Vietnamese pilots, fighting against American invaders.
Vietnamese artillerymen fire ordnances.
A panorama of peaceful Vietnamese landscapes; a panorama of rice fields.
A destroyed cemetery.
Abyssinian children, escaping from the Italian fascist bombing.

People running to a bomb shelter.
Fascist planes bomb Spain.
A running Spanish woman with a child.
People running to a bomb shelter.
Seeing offs of Spanish children, who are being taken away from bombing to the others countries.
Bombs explosion.
Chinese women with children.
Japanese airplanes.
A man is carrying a child out of ruins of the house.
A child with burns.


Poland, England, France, Byelorussia, Ukraine are being bombed by German fascists.

People are escaping from bombings, evacuating themselves; children are running.
A wounded child.
Children’s corps.
Crying women.
A panorama of a heap of child and woman’s shoes and child’s toys in the death camp in Majdanek.

Children with the marks of the death on their little hands in Oświęcim
The mark on the little hand.
The ruins excavations, corps of children.
The Nuremberg Trials –fascist criminals are sitting.
The American intervention in Vietnam: American soldiers are torturing, beating Vietnamese patriots.

The American brutality in Vietnam.
American tanks are destroying and burning forests in Vietnam.
American motor cars with soldiers.
A panorama of Vietnamese women with children.

Source description 3: A burning forest and villages in Vietnam.
A napalm jet, burning down houses, the forest.
American aircraft carriers and taking off them planes.
American airplanes in the air.
The airplanes drop bombs.
Wounded and burnt Vietnamese women and children.
The building of the White House.
The President’s cabinet.
The American President Lyndon Johnson from the stands is congratulating America with the birth of a two hundred millions American citizen.
An American newborn.
A panorama of New-York, farms (bird's eye view).
An American town.
Explosions on the water and on the earth.
A shot Vietnamese child’s cradle.
A Vietnamese child in the cradle.
Vietnamese cradles with children.
Vietnamese are shooting, defending their children lives.
A panorama of an American burning airplane falling down, burst on the earth.
Rockets and airplanes of the Vietnamese patriots, with their help the Vietnamese fight against the invaders.
Rockets shoot up.
Protest demonstrations in Europe and in America against the war in Vietnam.
The police is dealing shortly with the demonstrators.
Cheerful Vietnamese children are playing.
The corpse of a child killed with a pellet bomb.
Fragments of the pellet bomb, the bomb itself.
A container with pellet bombs.

Source description 4: People on streets of an American city.
A play land.
The building of a children's hospital.
Different products and goods in shops.
An emergency car is rushing at full speed.
A surgery operation is being carried out.
An electrocardiograph and other medical equipment.
Newborns premature children in “infant incubators”, where they are being grown.

A Vietnamese hospital under the earth, the work of a medical staff.
The White House and President R. Nickson – frames and pictures.
Newborns.
Taking off and dropping bombs airplanes.
The Moon surface, shot from the American spaceship “Appolo-10”.

The Vietnamese earth, shot form bombers after the so called «moonisation».

Panoramas of craters and ruins on the earth.
Children’s corpses.

Source description 5: A panorama of the bomb craters on the Vietnamese earth.
A panorama of the war monuments: in the burnt alive village Krasukha, in the shot village Khatyn, – the Soviet Union; in Yugoslavia – in Krаguеvac - to killed school children.

The monuments in Latvia; in Lithuania.
The monument in France; in Liditze (Polland).
The monument in the Warsaw ghetto; the monument in Ravensbrueck.
The monument to the children died of hunger in Leningrad.
A panorama of the epitaph, which is taken from the diary of Tanya Savicheva.
A panorama of ruins cloaked in smoke in Vietnam.
Bombs are falling down, explosions on the earth.
Airplanes are bombing.
A panorama of a helicopter in the air.
An American soldier is shooting from the helicopter.
An American city reportage – people in the streets, in shops, in a café, in a library; parents are walking with their children.
A Vietnamese child’s corpse.
Vietnamese patriots are transferring their bases to new positions, in the field.
Vietnamese children – by themselves and with adults.

Directors: Babak M.

Operators: Voinov O.

Script writers: Simonov K.