The Screen Guide

This program explores the events and places behind Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, performed by the SBS Youth Orchestra. Tragically, Napoleon's folly of 1812 proved to be a harbinger of what was to follow 130 years later: on the same ground where 80,000 men lost their lives in a single day, trenches were again being dug, as Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.