Front-line Cameraman
Front-line Cameraman
20 minutes
1946
HD
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.
Genres War, Documentary
Stars Leonid Khmara, Vladimir Sushchinskiy
Directors Vladimir Sushchinskiy, Maria Slavinskaya, Semiramida Pumpyanskaya, Zinaida Ginzburg, Vladimir Sushchinskiy
Front-line Cameraman