Front-line Cameraman Poster

Front-line Cameraman

20.00% | December 31, 1946 | War, Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Vladimir Sushchinskiy
Camera Operator
Maria Slavinskaya
Director
Semiramida Pumpyanskaya
Assistant Director

Cast

Leonid Khmara
Leonid Khmara
Narrator (voice)
Vladimir Sushchinskiy
Vladimir Sushchinskiy
Self (archive footage)

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