Eternal Memory

Videos and films

ID:: 62519
Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
Date:: 1988
Genre:: Amateur film
Technique:: 16 mm film
Duration:: 00:08:37 min
Color:: black and white
Creator: Dmytro Kozel
Collection: Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description: The film contains an amateur documentary report on the commemoration of those who fell in World War II:

1) 00:00:16 - 00:04:31 — The ceremony of reburial of the remains of fallen soldiers. A mass grave. Pioneer salute. Men place a list of names into a burial urn and carry it away. A rally with flags follows a truck. Pioneers gather at the monument. A funeral procession with wreaths and the urn arrives at the cemetery. Veterans lay wreaths. Wreaths are presented from the board of the collective farm, as well as from pioneer and Komsomol organizations. Speeches by officials. General and close-up shots of the audience.

2) 00:04:32 - 00:08:32 — Rally at the eternal flame. Laying of wreaths. Official speeches. The honor guard. Participants of the ceremony. Shots of the list of fallen soldiers and a sculptural composition. Children near the eternal flame.
Language:: -