Carmen was a participant in four wars,? traveled halfway around the world with a movie camera, filming such important events of the pre-war years as the launch of Volkhovstroy, the first tractor in the fields? state farm "Giant," the construction of the Dnieper, battles in Spain, an expedition to search for Levanevsky. During the Great Patriotic War? the operator captured on film the battles near Moscow, besieged Leningrad, the battles in Stalingrad, the assault on Berlin, the signing of the surrender of Nazi Germany.