Фронтовой кинооператор · 1946

Front-line Cameraman

Maria Slavinskaya · 20 min · Soviet Union

A tribute to Soviet cameraman Vladimir Sushchinsky, killed in the liberation of Breslau in 1945, featuring his funeral and final footage by fallen colleagues. The film honors the 252 front-line cameramen of the Central Documentary Film Studio, one in five of whom died while recording the war, leaving behind millions of meters of film and hundreds of newsreels as a lasting record of the conflict.

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Production companies

Central Studio of Documentary Films

Cast

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  Leonid Khmara

  Narrator (voice)

• Vladimir Sushchinskiy

  Self (archive footage)