Film based on reconstruction of Stalingrad, Soviet Union after World War II attack. Soviet bi-plane in flight over Stalingrad. Aerial views of city. Co-pilot of biplane uses a camera. Damaged buildings of city. Damage caused to Stalingrad showing destroyed buildings and monuments. Destroyed pillboxes. Wrecked equipment at Volga River banks.
Opening scene shows Russian soldiers in ruins of Stalingrad, with captured German combat films. A soldier hold up a film and looks at some of the images, upon which the scene changes to the captured German film, itself, showing German troops in the midst of destroyed and damaged Soviet buildings, during the Battle of Stalingrad, in World War 2. . A German field artillery piece fires, and black smoke rises from the area. A formation of German Messerschmitt Bf 109s is seen. Then bombs are shown dropping from a bomber (unseen). German Tiger tanks advance across a plain. German artillerymen look through binoculars. A periscopic binocular is on a tripod nearby. A German soldier, standing at a height, next to a smoke stack, observes huge fires burning in the distance. A German officer leads several hatless German soldiers. Scene switches to post-siege, as Soviet troops are dealing with aftermath. A mortuary team in protective clothing is disposing of the body of a fallen German soldier. A group of wounded Russian soldiers is being moved in a wagon, by medics. Civilians in Stalingrad read notices posted on a bulletin board. Soviet workmen probe rubble (perhaps for survivors). A buried shell explodes sending white smoke aloft. A destroyed anti-aircraft gun sits in rubble, with destroyed and damaged buildings in background. Skeletons of buildings are all that is left in some places. A hand written sign is posted addressed to "Mama!" (Addendum) Interestingly the narrator is speaking in Korean about the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, implying the source might be a Soviet-made propaganda film for ethnic Koreans.
Film based on reconstruction of Stalingrad, Soviet Union after World War II attack. Soviet workers at a railroad station. Men wave to a leaving train. Workers work in a factory. Packets on conveyor belt. Soviet women at work. Factory workers and machine shop workers unite at the railroad station to built Stalingrad. Soviet troops at railroad station. Soviet women take care of their children. Men fix a glass on a window.
Film based on reconstruction of Stalingrad, Soviet Union after World War II attack. Soviet workers and technicians work to rebuilt State Electric Station. Workers work on a big steel frame structure. Technicians work at various instruments. Stacks of electric station emit smoke.
Reconstruction of Stalingrad, Soviet Union after World War II attack. Ruins of Stalingrad. Exteriors of a building. Woman works at home. Female telephone operators at work. Soviet girls arrive at university to attend classes. Soviet children attend classes. Soviet children attend classes. Russian newspapers being printed at a press. A sword is made by workers. Soviet Marshal Semen Mikhailovich Budennyi presents the same sword to city officials. U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union William Averell Harriman presents a memento to Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Foreign Minister of Soviet Union Vyacheslav Molotov.
Soviet female engineer inspects the Moscow Metro train. Soviet female engineer as she inspects the train. Train leaves a station. Female engineer in train. Train running underground. Friends of female engineer greet her as train arrives at a station.