The read
It runs a compact 1h 10m.
Synopsis
A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany’s capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts captured the battle and its aftermath, supplemented with seized German footage. The film records the destruction of Berlin and the symbolic collapse of Hitler’s regime, standing as both a historical chronicle and a work of Soviet wartime cinema.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Yuli RaizmanDirector
- Mykola ShpykovskyiWriter
- Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
- Elizaveta SvilovaDirector
Cast
- Leonid KhmaraNarrator (voice)
- Rudolf BoettgerSelf
- Vasily ChuykovSelf
- Hermann GöringSelf
- Adolf HitlerSelf (archive)
- Wilhelm KeitelSelf
- Benito MussoliniSelf (archive)
- Carl SpaatzSelf
- Joseph StalinSelf
- Hans-Erich VossSelf
- Helmuth WeidlingSelf
- Georgi ZhukovSelf