Front-line Cameraman

Front-line Cameraman — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 31, 1946
• Runtime
• 20 min
• Genres
• War, Documentary
• Director
• Maria Slavinskaya

Front-line Cameraman — Cast

Leonid Khmara Narrator (voice)

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Vladimir Sushchinskiy Self (archive footage)