A film about the Southern Front of the Estonian War of Independence in the summer of 1919.
"Stay safe, my home beach", "Once I slept in the park" and "Landesveer, you don't know it" are played in the background.
Content description of the Media Library:
It starts with views of Tallinn, a warship with the English flag in the harbor, Viru street, the tricolor on the Pika Hermann tower, views of Toompea, Suur-Kloostri tn. gate, "Kuldjala tower", Soldiers' sports exercises on the "goat" and on the rails in front of the barracks. Exercises for riders - riding in the saddle with the back in front. A military column moving along a city street: horsemen, artillery carriages, infantrymen. Line inspection [Tartus?], soldiers lined up at Tartu Raeplats, soldiers at Tartu railway station. Armored train No. 2, with artillery platform "Kalew." Armored train No. 3 with artillery platform "Uncle Tom." A broken railway track, views from a moving train, an armored train cannon firing, shell explosions, an armored car firing, a "Maxim" heavy machine gun on the roof of an armored train, a procession of war refugees on horses, the transport of the wounded, a military hospital [Danish Red Cross military hospital in Valga?]. The film ends with war ruins: [Orthodox church], the ruins of a settlement, [Riga - Pskov road bridge “Olga” (see photo collection 4- 3460; 26.07.1919)].
Restored by artificial intelligence.
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Original: www.meediateek.ee/auvik/view?...
24 апр 2023
