War Babies

War Babies , 1988 (47:13)

Annotation: About the difficult fate of children during the Great Patriotic War (Soviet people’s participation in World War II in 1941-1945).

Film description: 1.5 h. The history of the USSR the eyes of children 30-x - x 40-city, mass repression, arrests of relatives, the Great Patriotic War, the occupation of the stories of children survivors of war. Memories of the boys - the sons of the regiment.

Source description 1: A panorama of B.K. Kiselev showing his wartime picture and speaking.
L.V. Khachkuruzova is speaking at home.
A picture of the 11-years-old L. Khachkuruzova and her family; family of V.S. Nozhkina.
V.S. Nozhkin is speaking at home.
A.A. Popkova is speaking.
A picture of Popkova’s family.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
A girl is crying.
A panorama of the Victory Day: military orchestra playing in the street; veterans passing by; people applauding.
Women of different ages and a girl.
The Victory Day, spectators are applauding.
Destroyed building.
Commander is being lifted up.
Children are walking along the ruins.
The newsreel of the 1930-s:
Newborn children.
Maternity hospital, women are lying.
Pictures of children.
Children’ toy railway.
Children’s cart competitions.
The Pioneers Palace building.
Girls are embroidering.
A panorama of pictures of Pioneer Brigades.

Modern children’s toy railway.
The Pioneers Palace building.
A panorama of the School # 33 building; schoolchildren are playing in the yard.
By the building A. F. Agafonov is speaking about his school years.
A panorama of books on the school desk.
A.F. Agafonov is speaking in the class.
A panorama of old books with portrait of Joseph Stalin, portraits and pages crossed out.
The newsreel of the 1930-1940-s.
Joseph Stalin at the Mausoleum tribune.
Demonstrators are passing by with flags greeting Joseph Stalin.



A Festival Demonstration in the city.
A panorama of a building.
A panorama of A.F. Agafonov in the house’s yard speaking about the repressed people.
Children are playing in the yard.
A boy on the swing.
A.F. Agafonov is entering the house roof.
A panorama of the city of Rostov-on-Don.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
Aircrafts are flying.
The ground.
German pilot in the cabin.
The bombs are falling.

Source description 2: The view of Rostov-on-Don.
Schoolchildren are running.

The newsreel of 1941-1945.
The city on fire, people are running.
A plane is in air, a bomb is falling.
A picture of 12-year-old A. Popkova.

A panorama of A. Popkova’s school diary, hands on the diary.
At home A.A. Popkova is speaking about bombardments in Rostov-on-Don.
A panorama of a house.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
A house.
The dead are lying.
A tank is going.
A German soldier.
Street fights.
German soldiers are walking by.
A picture of a German soldier.
A blown-up house.

A.A.Popkova in the street.
A panorama of streets of Rostov-on-Don.
A tree in the street, a flower is lying..
A panorama of the Hotel “Rostov” building.
Passers-by in the street.
A view from the window.
A.F. Agafonov is speaking at home.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
A child in the street.
A picture of boys.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
German officers are greeting, in line; a soldier is being awarded.

German soldiers’ life.
The killed in the street; women are crying.

The memorial tablet at the place where Rostov-on-Don’s inhabitants were shooted by Hitler time fascist soldiers.
A panorama of the memorial tablet in memory of the boy - V. Cherevichkin who was executed by Fascists.
A panorama of children’s wartime pictures.
A panorama of a yard.
A dovecot, pigeons on the roof.
A panorama of boys-dovecots.
A panorama of pigeons in the sky.
A panorama of a document.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
The city of Rostov-on-Don.

Vitya’s portrait.
The Monument to Vitya Cherevichkin.
An elderly woman is sitting.

Source description 3: A panorama of a stand with children’s pictures.
A panorama of a house wall.
A panorama of the Monument to the Perished Soldiers.
A panorama of the epitaph on the Monument to the Executed Pioneers.
A.A. Popkova is speaking about the life during the occupation.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
People among the ruins; they are taking out water from an ice-hole.
Fascists are searching the arrested person.
A child is preparing something in the street.

A panorama of the beach and impringing wave.
Passers-by in the street.
A panorama of an English lesson: A.A. Popkova in the class, a senior high class student is speaking at the blackboard.
V.S. Nozhkin is playing war songs with the button accordion indoors; speaking.
The newsreel of 1941-1945.
Soviet soldiers are helping children to get out of the cellars.
A soldier is putting a hat on a boy.
A picture of rewarding a boy-soldier; boys-sailor, guerrilla warroir and others.
Soldiers are walking along the field.
Refugees are walking along the frozen river.

B.K. Kiselev is speaking.
A panorama of Kiselev’s room interior, a jacket with orders.
Hands with an order.

The newsreel of 1941-1945.

A railway station, a depot.
A train is running.
Soldiers are going into assault.
Wartime pictures of B.K. Kiselev’s.
Whip-round for plane constructions: money, valuable things and bonds are being collected.
Airplanes in the airdrome.

Source description 4: The newsreel of 1941-1945:
Europe liberation: infantry is walking; explosions.
An airdrome, pilots next to the plane.

L.N. Apikov is speaking.
L.V. Khachkuruzova.
A picture of the Khachkuruzovs.
A panorama of a prison building.
A panorama of L.V. Khachkuruzova in the prison’s court speaking about her father’s death.
The newsreel of 1941-1945:
The dead bodies are lying.
Women are crying.
The interrogation of the people accused of mass executions: Ilyasov, Kerimov, Gazhiev answering questions.
Pictures of the dead.
The table with evidence.
The judges.
The accused are sitting.

The Monument to the Victims of Fascist Occupation, flowers at the monument.
A building, gates.
P.F. Bezuglov is speaking in the yard.
A panorama of the prison building.
A picture of the prison and the dead.
L.V. Khachkuruzova is laying flowers to the Monument.
P.F. Bezuglov at the Monument.
A panorama of a small girl sleeping in a pram.
A woman with a child in the park.
A panorama of people on the bench.
An elderly woman is sitting.
A panorama of women with children in the street.
They are tying the bow of the girl .
V.S. Nozhkin is speaking.
Hands are sorting out the pictures.
The newsreel of 1941-1945:
Women are crying.
A panorama of a picture of young Nozhkin’s .
The newsreel of 1941-1945:
A train with soldiers is running.
Burned railway carriages.
People are getting out of the train.
A destroyed depot.

A summer landscape.
People are getting out of the train.
Passengers are at the platform.

Source description 5: The newsreel of 1941-1945:
Ruins.
The wounded are being helped.

L.N. Apikov is in a bus; speaking.
A picture of young Apikov.
A panorama of A.N. Apikov in the yard.
B.K. Kiselev is talking to doctors in the hospital yard.
The hospital yard, patients are playing dominoes.
A panorama of a veteran on crutches.
L.N. Apikov is working and telling about himself.
A picture of young Apikov.
A.F. Agafonov at home is telling about his work
A panorama of Agafonov’s book “Ya vernus s pobedoy, mama! [“Mother, I Will Come Back with Victory!”].
A panorama of a writing table.
L.V. Khachkuruzova is speaking.
A panorama of the room and the portrait of her father on the wall.
The teacher A.A. Popkova is speaking in the yard and lulling her granddaughter.
A panorama of Popkova’s pupils.
P.F. Bezuglov is telling about himself in the street.
A panorama of Rostov-on-Don.
The newsreel of 1946-1950.
The destroyed Rostov-on-Don; city streets.
Women are working at the construction.
Women are carrying a sculpture.

The pictures of the film heroes: B. K. Kiselev, V.S. Nozhkin, A.A.Popkova, L.V. Khachkuruzova, L.N. Apikov, P.F.Bezuglov.

Directors: Skitovich V.

Operators: Ermolaev L.

Script writers: Shaposhnikov M.

Composers: Kasparov U.

Announcer: Zakharchenko V.