1941. Moscow.Children's memoirs. (2010)

Moscow, Victory Park, stele, working fountains.

There are children, teenagers and young people in the frame.

Children walk in the park with their parents.

In the frame of Victory Park, the stele on Poklonnaya Hill, the building of the Victory Museum is visible, a panorama of the numbers on the granite slab "1941".

Chronicle of the 30-40s - a child swinging on an iron gate.

B/w photo - Catherine Palace in Lefortovo.

Various old b/w photos - apartments in a former palace, group pictures of people.

The old b/w photo shows actor Lev Durov at the age of 11 (in 1941).

A collage of different photographs by Durov.

Durov's apartment, bookshelves.

Durov is sitting in an armchair, talking about his childhood, the war years, and so on.

The chronicle of 1941 - German planes are flying.

Says Durov.

The chronicle of 1941 is a German soldier, at the train station relatives see off Soviet soldiers, trucks with soldiers are traveling, infantrymen are marching along the road.

Moscow, 1941. in the frame of a city street, a tram is traveling, people are getting off the subway, Gorky Street.

In the b/w photo there is a cart with sparkling water, children and adults nearby.

Various old photos - people in the stands of the stadium, women handing over primuses for repairs, a cocktail bar.

Chronicle of 1941 - a woman with a stroller, the windows of restaurants and shops are filled with sandbags, people in a restaurant, people and transport on the streets of Moscow, the Moscow River, a boat is sailing, the Kremlin, the Bolshoi Theater are in the frame.

Funerals appear against the background of the chronicle.

Says Durov.

A photo from Durov's family archive shows his father in the frame.

Says Durov.

Chronicle of 1941 - battle, explosions, shots, a tank is burning, dead soldiers are in the frame.

Says Durov.

Chronicle 1941 - German soldiers, tanks are coming, a soldier on a tree is looking through binoculars.

B/w shooting - Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, clock.

Chronicle 1941 - people on the streets of Moscow, buying newspapers, standing in line, reading the press, riding trams, etc.

Group b/w photos of school graduates.

The photos show young people, teenagers with rifles, in factories, clearing rubble, etc.

Says Durov.

Chronicle of 1941 - the building of the clinical hospital named after

Burdenko, the doctors are performing an operation, the medical staff is bandaging the wounded.

Says Durov.

Chronicle 1941 - Moscow, artillery pieces, German planes in the sky, pilots in the cockpit, bombs are dropped on the ground, explosions are visible, guns are firing upwards, Destroyed buildings in Moscow, ruins, rubble, women crying, boys playing with fragments.

Says Durov.

Chronicle 1941 - teenagers climb the stairs to the roof.

Sparks from incendiary bombs, bombs are extinguished in containers with water, dropped from the roof to the ground.

Says Durov.

The b/w photo shows Durov with friends.

Says Durov.

Books-memoirs of Lev Durov.

Says Durov.

The chronicle of 1941 - a German soldier, planes, dogfight, a plane with a swastika is on fire.

B/w photo - a downed German plane on a square in Moscow.

Chronicle 1941 - People in the subway, on escalators, waiting out an air raid underground, children sleeping in the subway, children playing and walking in courtyards, playing football, classics, etc.

Says Durov.

Group b/w photo.

Chronicle 1941 - summer Moscow, tram rides, five-storey houses in the frame, etc.

Photos of bread cards appear on the background of the chronicle.

B/w photos - bread is given out by cards.

Says Durov.

Fruits on a platter.

Says Durov.

The old b/w photo shows actor Lev Durov at the age of 11 (in 1941).

Durov wipes his eyes with a handkerchief and continues to talk.

Close-up of children's eyes in b/w photos.

Says Durov.

Chronicle 1941-1942 - winter, there is a column of German tanks, tanks enter the village.

B/w photos - military Moscow, militias, soldiers, guns, hedgehogs, artillery installations on roofs, girls with logs, tram, tanks, destroyed buildings, the Kremlin, etc.

Says Durov.

Portrait of Lev Durov.

Says Durov.

Chronicle of 1941 - balloons in the sky, searchlights, the Kremlin, Red Square, etc.

Sheets with charcoal drawings - on the theme of military Moscow.

Chronicle 1941 - residents of Moscow read the Resolution of the State Defense Committee, in the frame of the house streets, anti-tank fortifications, sandbags, passing columns with military, soldiers are marching, residents of the city are working on the creation of fortifications, militia with documents at the recruiting office, the militia are marching, Red Square.

Says Durov.

Chronicle of 1941-1942 - winter, Germans near Moscow, in the frame columns with German soldiers, tanks.

Shots of fighting - artillery guns are firing, explosions are heard, a pilot in the cockpit of an airplane, a cannonade of explosions, planes are flying, tanks are driving, infantry in white masks are running, troops on skis, captured Germans, etc.

Says Durov.

Close-up of Durov's face in the photo.

Says Durov.

Chronicle 1941-1942 - a German soldier, playing a gramophone, Moscow, teenagers skiing, people on the streets of a winter city, trucks driving, people on the street watching and buying books, the Bolshoi Theater building in the frame, etc.

There are German prisoners in the b/w photo.

Says Durov.

There are German prisoners in the b/w photo.

Chronicle 1941-1942 - residents of Moscow carry New Year's trees, New Year's toys in shops, a large New Year tree, children lead round dances, children celebrate the new year in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, happy faces of children in the frame.

Chronicle of 1942 - winter, military Moscow, residents on the streets of the city, traffic in the center.

Says Durov.

Moscow, summer, greenery, park, elderly couples dancing.

Group children's b/w photo.

Elderly couples are dancing.

Group b/w photo (school graduation).

Elderly couples are dancing.

Various b/w photos of children from the Second World War.

Park, elderly couples dancing.

Children's photos from the Second World War alternate with shots in the park, where elderly couples are dancing on the dance floor.

Chronicle of the 30-40s - a child swinging on an iron gate.