1959 SOVIET UNION, POLAND, FINLAND, GERMANY TRIP " A LOOK BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN " (SILENT) 61544

This movie, entitled "A look behind the Iron Curtain: USSR 1959 " was produced either by the Maupin Tour Company, (known today as Maupintour) or by someone who went on a Maupin Tour. The film provides a glimpse of what a tourist could expect if booking a USSR trip in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
0:26 The journey begins in Helsinki, Finland 
0:28 Arrival at the newly-opened Helsinki Vantaa Airport
0:40 Port of Helsinki
0:47 Finnish soldiers with their Stahlhelms
1:02 Pan to the busy street by the port. Helsinki City Hall. Port Authority and the Uspenski cathedral
1:22 Esplanadi park
1:28 Monument to Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the Finnish poet
1:40 Central Helsinki
1:56 The Three Smiths Statue
2:00 A drunk, being arrested by the police
2:10 Central Helsinki around Mannerheimmintie
2:25 Maupintour bus, going from Helsinki, through Leningrad and Moscow to Warsaw
2:29 Finnish countryside to the Soviet border
3:22 Market in the Finnish city of Hamina, near the Soviet border
3:56 Road signs in Russian
4:18 Card: Leningrad : window to the West
4:47 Nevsky in Saint Petersburg
4:52 Soviet Army soldiers looking at an open-top Moskvitch 402
5:05 Nevsky in Saint Petersburg.
5:47 The Arch of the Army Headquarters seen from the rear
6:03 Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Paul at Nevsky
6:20 Saint Isaac's Cathedral
6:29 Military academy cadets
6:40 The Hermitage Museum
7:00 Palaces and parks of the Suburban Imperial Saint Petersburg - Pushkin/Tsarskoye Selo/Peterhof etc.
7:46 A kindergarten group visits the palaces.
8:14 Card : Novgorod
8:24 Port of the Novgorod city and Yuriev Monastery
9:37 The Novgorod Kremlin.
9:50 City watering truck
10:10 Moskvitch riverboat. Demyansk city Various Volga river views.
12:39 Card: Moscow  … Mother of all Russians 
12:50 Vorobiovy Gory subway viaduct and pan onto the Luzhniki stadium and Moscow river.
13:25 Sokolniki Central Park. Crowds at the park. Red banners with slogans.
14:14 1959 International Expo in the Soviet Union, USA pavilion
15:00 Crowds, same location. A Lebanese flag in the middle.
15:38 Saint Basil's cathedral, crowded streets.
16:00 Red Square, people queuing for Lenin's Mausoleum
16:20 Facades of the GUM Department store.
17:53 The Kremlin Armory Museum
17:55 Inside the Kremlin. Spasskaya tower at 18:55
18:30 The Kremlin Park
19:47 Arbat and Manezhnaya place, Hotel Moscow, Tchaykovski street.
20:50 Khrushchev Housing program condos under construction
21:28- Parked cars Volga GAZ-21, Pobeda and Moskvitch models 401 and 402.
22:16 House on the Embankment
22:30 Municipal cleaning truck
22:31 Various views of the Volga river. More condos under construction. Kremlin seen from the river.
24:38 VDNKh – All-Union expo grounds
26:42 More construction sites
27:38 driving to Saint Petersburg
28:04 People, having spread hay for drying on the highway, are sitting in the midst of it.28:54 Card: Smolensk 
29:09 A Belorussian poster about increase in meat production
29:40 More people drying grain on the highway pavement.
29:59 bus breakdown  ?
30:10 Nacha river in Belarus
30:24 Card: Minsk, capitol of White Russia 
30:41 People and sights of Minsk. Francisz Baguszeich place.
31:06 A memorial to Joseph Stalin at the October Square, demolished 3rd of November 1961
31:14 Life in Minsk.
31:20 A curious toddler looks at the bus
31:21-32:55 Minsk Central Stadium, now National Olympic Dynamo Stadium. A football / soccer team training.
32:59 People playing table tennis
33:31 Card: USSR 1959, The end.  »
34:01 Card: Warsaw, Poland Strange contrast to Russian drabness 
34:15 Main street
34:46 One of the Stalin's high-rises – Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
34:59-35:31 Aerial view of Warsaw from the Palace
35:31-37:00 People and streets of Warsaw
37:00 Taking the airplane to Berlin, landing at the now-closed Berlin Tempelhof
37:22 Card: West Berlin  : Oasis in the Red desert 
37:30 Kurfürstendamm street sign
37:37 A typical Berliner doubledecker bus
37:40 Berlin's flag and symbol. The Bear Meadow, followed by shots of the Berlin Zoo
39:15-39:40 Children's playground by Sarotti
39:40-40:07 Panorama of Berlin
40:07-40:12 Funkturm Berlin or Berlin Radio Tower, a former radio tower, built in 1926
41:55 Driving on Autobahn
42:00-42:42 Hamburg
42:43-50:15 German countryside and lakeside scenery, picturesque villages.
43:47 A modernized Medieval castle on a mountaintop
44:45 An open gondola-type aerial lift
50:15 Arrival at Munich. Munich cathedral
51:41 People feeding pigeons
52:10-52:55 A local football/soccer match
52:55-end Some more of the famous German Autobahn and villages

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