The Mannerheim Line

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 74 min
  • Premiere: 1940. December 18.

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.

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Camera

Semyon Shkolnikov

Camera Operator

Grigoriy Donets

Camera Operator

Fyodor Ovsyannikov

Camera Operator

Pavel Palley

Camera Operator

German Shulyatin

Camera Operator

Boris Burt

Camera Operator

Yefim Uchitel

Director of Photography

Nikolay Blazhkov

Camera Operator

Sergey Fomin

Camera Operator

Viktor Dobronitsky

Camera Operator

Solomon Kogan

Camera Operator

Vladimir Yeshurin

Director of Photography

Directing

Vasili Belayev

Director

Leonid Varlamov

Director

Nikolay Komarevtsev

Director

Valeri Solovtsov

Director

Sound

Dmitriy Astradantsev

Music

Camera

Semyon Shkolnikov

Camera Operator

Grigoriy Donets

Camera Operator

Fyodor Ovsyannikov

Camera Operator

Pavel Palley

Camera Operator

German Shulyatin

Camera Operator

Boris Burt

Camera Operator

Yefim Uchitel

Director of Photography

Nikolay Blazhkov

Camera Operator

Sergey Fomin

Camera Operator

Viktor Dobronitsky

Camera Operator

Solomon Kogan

Camera Operator

Vladimir Yeshurin

Director of Photography

Directing

Vasili Belayev

Director

Leonid Varlamov

Director

Nikolay Komarevtsev

Director

Valeri Solovtsov

Director

Sound

Dmitriy Astradantsev

Music