Osvobozhdenie

original title:
Osvobozhdenie
other titles:
A Grande Batalha; Befreiung; Ildbuen; La batalla de Berlín; Suuri läpimurto; Taistelu Berliinistä; Libération; Apeleftherosi; I megali mahi; Felszabadítás; L'armata rossa alla liberazione dell'Europa; Yoroppa no Kaihou; Wyzwolenie; Tanklarin savasi; The Great Battle; Liberation
country / year of production:
Soviet Union / 1969
original length:
470 min. , color
premiere:
July 1969, Moscow Film Festival, Moskau
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Julius Kun , Yuri Nikolayevich Ozerov
film script:
Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev , Oskar Kurganov , Yuri Nikolayevich Ozerov
producer:
Lidija Kanarejkina
cinematographer:
Igor Mikhailovich Slabnevich
editor:
Ye. Karpova
composer:
Yuri Abramovich Levitin
cast (role):
Nikolay Vladimirovich Olyalin (Tsvetayev) , Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina (Zoya) , Boris Ilyich Zajdenberg (Orlov) , Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (Sashka) , Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (Lukin) , Nikolay Vladimirovich Olyalin , Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina , Boris Ilyich Zajdenberg , Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko , Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev
more:
plot synopsis:
Reconstruction of all famous battles of the Red Army, the last days of Hitler and the conqueat of Berlin.
keywords:
authenticity , liberation , siege , communism
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
remarks:
This film had millions of spectators in the former U.S.S.R. and the Eastern Bloc. Later it was shown every 9th of May on Soviet TV as part of the official celebrations for (World War II) Victory Day. The epic covers all major victories of the Soviet Army in WWII, including the Stalingrad Battle and the Battle of Berlin, the assault on the Reichstag, and erecting the Red Banner over its ruins.

Part of a series:
Part 1: Ognennaya Duga (The Bulge of Fire, 1969)
Part 2: Proryv (The Breakthrough, 1969)
Part 3: Napravleniye Glavnogo Udara (The Direction of the Main Strike, 1970)
Part 4: Bitva za Berlin (The Battle for Berlin, 1971)
Part 5: Posledny Shturm (The Last Assault, 1971)
availability:
VHS NTSC