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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221189-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Russia,USSR
Location: Gatchna,Leningrad
TC Begins: 00:42:04
TC Ends: 00:52:44
Duration: 00:10:40
900 Unforgettable Days (1964) Pt 5 of 5 00:42:40 Army’s artillery factory, people work on producing rockets, bombs, grenades. Tank on street. Animated map w/ Soviet command attack plans. Troops load ships w/ equipment, tanks & leave. 00:43:44 15Jan44 Leningrad goes over to offensive. Large artillery & big ships guns on battleships pointed at enemy, artillery in winter fields fired, explosions. Young boys watch w/ binoculars. People watch from bridge over river. 00:45:02 Bombers in air, drop bombs, soldiers on ground watch. Bombers in formation. Line of tanks on road. Lots of shooting of rockets, soldiers into battle on foot, on tanks across snowscape. War prisoners taken. Generals in field consulting. Street fighting continues. 00:47:50 900th day. Soviet Army breaks thru to Gatchna on 26Jan44, intense fight in burning city, soldiers hang out flag in high tower. Tanks & troops past dead. 00:48:19 Troops greeted back w/ cheering & waving crowds. Scenes of battlefield w/ wire, pillboxes & dead bodies. Wrecked equipment, tanks. Captured Nazi prisoners led thru Leningrad, people watch. Big line of tanks. Soviet flag on pole, birds fly in the sky. 00:50:23 Leningrad in festive mood. Golden spire on Admiralty building sparkled, monument of Peter The Great appears from protective covers, famous statue of horses put back in place, warning signs on walls covered over. Modern shots of Leningrad w/ new blocks of houses & apartments. Busy street w/ traffic & people. High angle shots of restored city. Monument - tank onto post & field w/ gravestones. Pedestrians & street activity w/ traffic. 00:52:13 Credits WWII Russian Front; Battle of Leningrad; Siege of Leningrad; POWs; Fighting;