
Produced by the Soviet Union to justify its 1939-40 Winter War campaign in Finland, this outstanding documentary---more than any other such cinematic record---visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two weeks after their capture, and as filmed by Red Army combat photographers onsite, directed by Vasili Belayev.
Crew

Vasili Belayev
Director
Nikolay Komarevtsev
Director

Leonid Varlamov
Director

Valeri Solovtsov
Director

Yefim Uchitel
Director of Photography

Vladimir Yeshurin
Director of Photography
Nikolay Blazhkov
Camera Operator
Boris Burt
Camera Operator
Grigoriy Donets
Camera Operator
Pavel Palley
Camera Operator
German Shulyatin
Camera Operator

Semyon Shkolnikov
Camera Operator
Fyodor Ovsyannikov
Camera Operator
Sergey Fomin
Camera Operator

Viktor Dobronitsky
Camera Operator

Solomon Kogan
Camera Operator
Dmitriy Astradantsev
Music