[Brezhnev Biography]

[Brezhnev Biography]

Rejissyor: [Soviet Union]. Leonid Brezhnev with all sorts of mid-1970s world leaders: Castro, Willy Brandt, Ceaucescu, Erik Honecker, Pinochet, etc. ; at t/c 02:24:51:04, official signing of the August 1975 HELSINKI ACCORDS Human Rights Treaty involving Brezhnev, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, Marshal Tito & other world leaders. The film is basically a puff piece about how beloved Brezhnev is by his people, also containing excellent archival footage of 1910s to 1940s industrial Soviet Union (factories, steel mills, tractors in fields, etc. etc.) 05:31:17:18 05:31:24:23 LS PAN over industrial structure w/ large pipes / Russian sign on building 05:34:06:25 05:34:12:19 "LS large explosion / large text superimposed ""1941"" + date in Russian " 05:34:12:20 05:34:14:09 AIR TO AIR LS Nazi planes dropping bombs 05:35:15:22 05:35:19:11 MS Russian soldier lifting two children out of makeshift bomb shelter 05:35:32:02 05:35:45:04 MS Brezhnez carrying red flowers hugging kissing senior Russian woman w/ head wrapped in scarf + young boy + man / people taking pictures + watching 05:36:31:02 05:36:34:16 LS plane falling from sky leaving trail of black smoke / plane exploding 05:36:48:23 05:37:01:02 CU disembodied hand putting down passport + 3 medals / 1 w/ Soviet sickle + hammer / hands wrapping up medals 05:37:23:14 05:37:26:00 LS World War II German plane burning in a field 05:37:26:01 05:37:29:22 CU young Brezhnev in military uniform 05:38:12:09 05:38:20:00 MS Pan Brezhnev placing flowers on steps of memorial 05:38:20:01 05:38:22:01 CU flame of WWII Soviet Memorial 05:41:31:04 05:41:33:18 CU VS Russian workers applauding 05:43:17:02 05:43:21:27 PAN down tree w/ autumn colors / ZO LS row of 4 Soviet style concrete high-rise apartment buildings 05:43:21:28 05:43:28:18 AERIAL FISH EYE over large soviet city / Moscow ? / large concrete buildings 05:43:28:18 05:43:33:00 CU POV shot moving through field of wheat against blue sky w/ white clouds 05:43:33:01 05:43:35:04 LS rising out of field of wheat / 6 harves

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