To Tell About Albania.

To Tell About Albania. , 1986 (29:24)

Annotation: A film about Albania's past is based on cinematographic archival materials.

Film description: Film is about Albania. The film draws upon the State Archive of Cinema and Photo Documents of the USSR (RGAKFD) and Gosfilmofond USSR. Albania. Tirana. Traffic and pedestrians on city streets. Street cafe. Monument to the heroes of World War II. People in the area during the public holiday. Funeral E. Hoxha (1985). Landscapes of Albania. Production processes in industry and agriculture. Power. High voltage line. Village and the villages. Monuments of history and architecture. Personnel chronicle of the Second World War. Personnel Chronicles of different years, including: the mosque, the marketplace, handicrafts, a woman spinning yarn; Albanian residents of different sex and age in national costumes; Chicherin and Litvinov in the diplomatic corps in the Kremlin ; B. Mussolini; Friends of the Congress of the Soviet Union in Moscow (1927), on the podium: Clara Zetkin, Krupskaya, and others; Albanian actor A. Moissi with friends; A. King Zog of Albania with his wife, E. Hodge (various plans) .

Source description 1: The street of the capital of Albania Tirana
A panorama of the schoolgirls walking along the street of the city
The boy is laughing
The girls re sitting
The girls are talking
The man with a bicycle
The car is passing by
The street of the city of Tirana
The men are sitting at the cars
The cafe
The street of the city of Tirana, passer-byes in the street of the city
The woman is carrying the child in the baby carriage
The child in the baby carriage
The girls are reading a newspaper
The girl
The old men are sitting on the small bench
The monument, a panorama of the monument
A panorama of the barrel of the cannon
The flowers
The pyramids
The fresco
The sculpture
A panorama of the fortress
The wall
The mosaic
A panorama of the other mosaic
The embossing
The embroidery
The embroidered picture
The picture, a panorama of the picture
The picture, the saint is portrayed.
The other picture, a panorama of the picture, the saints are portrayed
The picture
The Hall of the Place, zooming in the crown
The monument of Skanderbeg, the military leader of Albania
The fortress
A panorama of the rock
The men are walking along the bridge
The man at the tower of the mosque
The man on the tower of the mosque
The market square, a panorama of the trading people
The face of the man
The man is lighting up the cigarette
The embossing-maker is working
The products of public handicraft industry
The man is smoking
The woman is spinning the yarn
The spinning wheel
The newsreel of 1912:
The hand with a gun
The man is lighting up a cigarette
The other man with scales
The other man is smoking
The man in the national clothes
The old man with a bag
The men are talking
The girl for work is working, a panorama of the leaving girls.
The newsreel of 1915:
The market Square (shot through the carved gates).
The document – a panorama of the seals
The newsreel of 1924:
The planes in the sky
A panorama of the soviet and foreign diplomats
The diplomat V. Chicherin, M. Litvinov and others
The diplomat Max Litvinov
Chicherin and Litvinov
The curtain
The Soviet and foreign diplomats – a panorama
The men are getting into the car
The car is moving
A panorama of the map
The newsreel of the 1930-s:
Benito Mussolini and the others
The car with military men is passing by
The photo of Ahmet Zogu, King of Albania.
Another photo of Ahmet Zogu
The fortress, a panorama of the fortress
The lattice frame
The tower
The poster with inscription "The Exhibition of the Comintern (Communist International)"
The visitors of the exhibition
A panorama of the stand with photos and articles
The photo of Ali Kelmendi, outstanding figure of the labour movement
A panorama of the stand
The newsreel of 1927:
The session hall
Listening
The man is listening
Clara Zetkin
N. Krupskaya
The delegates of the conference
The photo of Fan Noly, political and public figure of Albania
The delegates are voting
The delegates are performing the hymn “Internationale”
The signed document
The Albanian actor Alexander Moissiu
А. Moissiu with friends
The photo of A. Moissiu, A. Lunacharskiy
The book, the of photo of Moissiu
Another photo of Moissiu
The other photos of Moissiu.
The shadow on the sand, a panorama of the sea
The newsreel of 1938:
The man is opening the news- stall
The car is moving
The foot is stepping pedal
The pedal
The man taking the newspapers
The newspapers with news about wedding ceremony of A. Zogu
The plane is flying by
A panorama of the escort of the cars passing by along the street
The cars with meeting people are going by
А. Zogu with his wife.

Source description 2: The newsreel of 1939-1945:
The emblem, the passage of troops
The signal pistol shot
The nave shots
The aircrafts in the sky
The bombs are falling
The land
The bomb are falling
The city
The battleship is sailing by, the aircrafts in the sky
The flag of the royal Italy
The troops are wailing along the street
In the street the cars are passing by
The crowd of people
A panorama of the cars with soldiers passing by
In the street of the city the military are standing
The troops are passing by
The leaflets
The fence, the mother is kissing her son
The woman is standing at the door
The soldiers are going uphill
The soldier is staking the oath.
The soldier is being sworn
The photo: soldiers
The newspapers – a panorama of newspapers
The aircraft is flying by
The military are motorcycling along the road
A panorama of the military motorcycling
The soldiers are carrying the cannon
The military
The soldiers are motorcycling
The soldiers are going uphill
The soldiers are looking
The soldier is shooting
The soldiers are shooting
The explosion
The other explosion
The smashed car
The newspaper
The smashed machinery
The damaged wires
The wires
The passage of soldiers by the smashed machinery
The leaflet with the words "The defeat of fascists in the battle of Stalingrad"
The joining the military units, the soldiers are kissing
The soldier in camouflage with small flags
The leaflet
A panorama of the officers passing by the standing guard
The photo of the dead man
The photo of the dead child
The photo of the executed man
The photo: the execution
The German aircrafts
The bombs are falling
A panorama of the ruined city
The soldiers are going uphill
The soldier is going uphill
The radio operator is sitting near the tent
The head of the Albanian Communist Party Enver Hodzhe
The radio operators near the tents
The soldiers are having a rest
The guerrillas are singing
The nurse is bandaging the hand
The soldiers are having dinner
The soldiers are going up hill
The formation of soldiers is walking along the road
A panorama of the soldiers passing by
The smashed machinery
The photo: the military
The photo: the soldiers
Kayuushas are shooting
The tanks are passing by the street of the city
The fascist flag is being thrown out of the balcony
The formation of soldiers is walking along the street
The soldiers are discharging their guns into the air
The flag
The soldiers are discharging their guns into the air
The common grave
The women are sitting by the graves
The cemetery
A panorama of the woman with wreaths
A panorama of the people in the square
The formation of soldiers
The soldier
The formation of soldiers
The boys with rifles
The newsreel of 1946-1950:
The teacher is writing on the board, a panorama of pupils
The pupils
The pupils in the classroom
The pupils are writing in their exercise- books
The woman is reeling up the wool
The girl is spinning the yarn
The girls are knitting
The woman is working in the field
The man is working in the field
The woman working in the field
The bridge over the river
The mountain river
The street of the city of Tirana
The car with people is passing by the street
The people is rejoicing, the car with people is passing by
The building site, the excavators are working
The excavator is working
Water
The men are applauding
The people by the market
The water is flowing
The people are walking through the water, the man is smiling
Water
The women are carrying the small barrels with water
The shepherd is holding a sheep
The girl is smiling
The girl is pouring the water
The newsreel of the 1950-s
The train is entering the tunnel
The train is leaving the tunnel
The foundation pit, a panorama of the foundation pit
A panorama of the building site
The building site – a panorama of welders
The load is carrying over the ropeway
The lorry
The column of the cars is passing by
The drilling plant
The worker
The oil is pouring
The miner
The miners are working
Miners are going down to the mine
The workers are passing by
The worker
A panorama of the students are having classes
The physician is holing a baby
The child is playing toys
The other child is playing toys
The woman is holding a baby.
The man with children
The street of the city of the Tirana
The news-stall
The construction of a new block of flats
A panorama of the mason is working
A panorama of the other soviet and Albanian masons are working
The mason is working

Source description 3: The globe
The newsreel of 1957:
The Lenin Stadium in Moscow, the members of the delegations of the 6th World youth festival are passing by
The flags are being carried through the stadium
The Albanian delegation is passing by
The Albanian delegation is dancing
The youth is playing the drum, the girls dance are dancing
The youth plays is playing the drum
The newsreel of the 1960-s
The library
The man is turning over the pages of the magazine
The ship
The man is waving the hand
The work in the port
The boxes
The ship with an inscription "Kuban"
The work in the port
The ship with an inscription "Peter the Great"
The work in the port
The man is turning over the pages of the magazine
The plant, a panorama of the plants
The blast furnaces are working
The towers, a panorama of towers
A panorama of the city of Tirana
A panorama of the trip round the streets of the town
The block of flats
A panorama of the residential area
The village in Albania, a panorama of the village
The house covered with snow, a panorama of the trees
The men are rowing the snow at the house
The tractor is clearing the snow
The cars are passing by along the road
The cars are passing by
The helicopters
The landscape
A panorama of the marsh herb
The men are working in the field
A panorama of the boy going in the cart
The men are mowing
The woman is taking the hay away
The man is smoking
The women in the national clothes are passing by
The woman is working in the field
The military guns in the field, a panorama of the guns
The guns in the field
The work in the field
The port
The newsreel of the 1970-s.
A panorama of the plant
The high-tension line
The bridge, a panorama of the water
The power station, the train with oil is passing by
The other train with the bags is passing by
The coal
The steel is pouring
The work in the foundry
The control board, a panorama of the working
The woman is working in the workshop
The girl is working
The lamp plant, the women are working
The photo: the students are working
The photo: A panorama of students in the earphones
The photo: A panorama of students having classes at the computer
A panorama of the power stations
The newsreel of 1985:
The funeral of Enver Hodzhi – a panorama of the people saying farewell.
The relatives at the Enver Hodzhi’s coffin
A panorama of the people at the square

The children are passing by the bridge
Ramiz Aliya elected the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the others
The people with flowers
The power station
The machine in action
The waterfall
The people with flowers at the square
The athletes at the stadium
A panorama of the athletes performing
Dancing
The man is holding a baby
A panorama of
A panorama of dancing
The landscape
The flowers
The sea gulls above the water
The sea
The beach, a panorama of people on vacation
The beach
The building, a panorama from the sea to the building, a panorama of the building
The street of the city, the bus is passing by
The village in Albania
The bus is passing by
The city
The monument
The monument
The other monuments

Directors: Babak M.

Operators: Filatov I.

Script writers: Babak M., Itskov I.

Announcer: Zozulin V.