The Letter

The Letter , 1986 (18:50)

Annotation: The writer Yu.N. Ivanov calls to mind his childhood during the World War II, reflects on problems of war and peace, on the right of citizens of the city of Kaliningrad (its original German name is Königsberg) for their city.

Film description: The writer Yu Ivanov recalls wartime childhood, thinking about the problems of war and peace, the right of residents of Kaliningrad to your city, those who are not resigned to the outcome of World War II, and dreams of revenge. These thoughts were inspired by the letter writer, a former owner of the house, a German, where he now lives Yu Ivanov.

Source description 1: Envelope, the letter in German.
Mark on the envelope, the address.
Lantern, the handle of the door of House #65 in Schtefecshtrasse, Kenigsberg (Kaliningrad).
Panorama of the house steps.
Journalist Yury Nikolaevich Ivanov is speaking about the letter from Hamburg written by Henrich Muller (the author of the letter is Henrich Muller, the former owner of the house, nowadays he is an inhabitant of Hamburg)
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
The corner of the house with pictures on the wall.
Germans are evacuating from Konigsberg.
Panorama of a German family with the hands lifted in salutation.


Yu.Ivanov with the wife in the garden, on the bench.
Panorama of the house.
Panorama of Yu.Ivanov with the wife at home; the room; the ladder, the clock.
Panorama from the tree to the window of the house.
Yu.Ivanov is removing the glasses.
A tree.
Yu.Ivanov is sitting in the chair.
Panorama of clouds floating rapidly in the sky.
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
Panorama of a flying plane.
Panorama of the flame.
The house is crashing.

Yu.Ivanov is putting on his glasses, looking.
Panorama of the monument to the Soviet Soldiers (in red color).
Panorama of the red clouds.
Yu.Ivanov and his wife are sitting at the table; on the bench in the garden among flowers.
Panorama of the house.
Pendulum.
Panorama of Yu.Ivanov comimg up to the desk, sitting down.
Hands are typing.
Panorama of the house reflection in water.
Panorama of the city of Kaliningrad.
The people in the street.
Newsreel of 1945:
The Soviet soldiers are passing by a German shop show-window; a German man at the show-window.
Soldiers are helping children to get out of the cave.
Children are passing.
Yu.Ivanov is sitting.
Panorama of the sculpture (children).
Panorama of a sunflower field.
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
Panorama of the wounded woman on the stretcher.

The groom and the bride at the Eternal Flame.
Flowers; children are playing in the street.
Children are playing on the tank.
Fountain; panorama of a girl at the fountain.
Panorama from the window to the room; panorama of Yu.Ivanov typing at the table.
Hamburg.
The man in the street is smoking the tube.
Man is sitting on the bench; other man is playing the accordion.
Streets of the city.
Panorama of the building with the inscription in German.
Man with the stick is walking along the street of city.
Hands are typing.
Panorama of a group of people walking along the street.
Hands are playing the accordion.
Old men are walking along the street.
Panorama of a German family in shorts walking in the park.
Hands are typing, panorama of Yu.Ivanov.
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
German soldiers are walking by against the page; houses are burning.
Panorama of the German family watching, their hands are lifted.
Panorama of the destroyed house.

Hands are typing.
Panorama of the mail box.
Several persons are marching along a West German city street.
Yu.Ivanov is sitting.
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
People are sitting on the ruins.
Ruins.

Yu.Ivanov is speaking.
German card with the image of the fascist plane "Junkers-88".
Yu.Ivanov is being listened to by the granddaughter.
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
Panorama of fascist planes flying.
Panorama of the house wall crashing.
The people in the street of the blockade Leningrad.
Woman and child are standing.
Panorama of falling bombs.
Woman is lying in the street.

Zoo in Kaliningrad.
Yu.Ivanov with his granddaughter in the Zoo.
Yu.Ivanov is speaking about the state of the Zoo during the war.
Black-and white photo: the killed baby elephant; the bear cub; the tiger, the monkey.
Polar bear in the open-air cage;
Yu.Ivanov is speaking;
Newsreel of 1945:
Salute.
Panorama of the people greeting the winners.
Panorama of the fascist banner falling down.
Sculpture - Hitler's head
Salute.

Source description 2: Yu.Ivanov is speaking.
House where Yu.Ivanov live.
A public garden.
People in the street of Kaliningrad.
Monument to Friedrich Schiller.
Panorama of red clouds.
People are listening the organ music.
The organ.
Man is playing the organ.
Woman and boy are listening.
Newsreel of 1945:
Panorama of the destroyed city.
Captured Germans are passing by.
Germans are marching with torches.
House is burning.
Panorama of German soldiers walking by.

Roman Catholic church.
Flowers. Panorama of the memorial to Immanuel Kant.
Panorama of the guide showing the portrait of Kant.
Listeners.
Excursion at the memorial.
Portrait of Kant.
Panorama of shelves with books in the Kant Museum.
The Museum Director is speaking.
Panorama of the books.
The journalist, Countess Marion Donchof (the former owner of estates in East Prussia) is speaking.
Hamburg.
Panorama of people walking along the street.
Panorama of a city street.
M. Donchof is speaking.
House windows, panorama of the building.
The building.
Panorama of the people in the street.
Yu.Ivanov is typing.
The magazine "Stern" in German.
The city of Kaliningrad.
Monument to Freidrich Schiller.
Coast (people are sunbathing, swimming).
Magazine pages are being turned over.
Panorama of the Ivanovs family at home.
A TV screen.
Boys from the Youth Organization "Hitleryugend" are on the TV screen.
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
Banners with swastika.
German boy is crying.
A former German soldier is looking.
Panorama of Soviet soldiers talking to a boy in the German uniform.
The boy is crying.
Sculpture of one of the Konigsberg cty founders Friedrich fon Celern (without a head).
Crushed wall.
The cathedral.
Monument to Friedrich Schiller.
The city of Kaliningrad (former Konigsberg).
Panorama of people in the street.
The wall.
Yu.Ivanov is speaking.
Legs of the sculpture, panorama of the knight without his head.
Panorama of the sea.
Newsreel of 1941-1945:
German soldiers’ dead bodies in the water.
Panorama of the German helmets on the seacoast.
German soldiers’ bodies on the seacoast.

Feature film shootings: actors in the form of German soldiers.
The sea.
Panorama of seagulls on the shore.
Yu.Ivanov with his granddaughter.
Monument to Soviet Soldiers.
Panorama of flying seagulls.
Panorama of a girl running along the shore.

Directors: Galin I.

Operators: Filatov I.

Script writers: Ivanov YU.