About Moscow and Muscovites

Documentary on the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students which was held from 31 July to 15 August 1955 in Warsaw.

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.

A documentary almanac about the life of the Soviet capital during the period of the extensive construction of socialism. The film shows the transformation of the external appearance of Moscow, the construction of new avenues, metro lines, residential buildings for workers, and the formation of a new way of life for a worker. There are also shots in the film that depict the leaders of the working proletariat: vols. I. Stalin, S. Kirov, S. Ordzhonikidze and others.