One Day of War

1h 20min

War

Documentary

A Soviet documentary chronicling a single day of the Great Patriotic War—June 13, 1942, the 356th day of the conflict. Filmed simultaneously across all fronts and the home front by 160 newsreel cameramen, and edited by Mikhail Slutsky at the Central Studio of Documentary Films, it offers a sweeping portrait of total war. Released in October 1942, the project captured the Soviet struggle against the German invaders in a single, coordinated day of filming.

Cast

William S. Gailmor

William S. Gailmor

Narrator (English version) (voice)
Yuriy Levitan

Yuriy Levitan

Narrator (voice)

Release date

22nd Oct 1942

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Pусский