

The Fall of Berlin
1950-01-21 · Runtime unavailable · ★ 5.0
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
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- Directors
- Mikheil Chiaureli
- Production companies
- Mosfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
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- Released
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Mikheil GelovaniI. V. Stalin
Maksim ShtraukhMolotov
Aleksei GribovVoroshilov
Nikolai RyzhovKaganovich
Gavriil BelovKalinin
Ruben SimonovMikoyan
Vladimir LyubimovMarshal Vasilyevsky
Sergei BlinnikovMarshal Konev
Boris LivanovMarshal Rokossovsky
Fyodor BlazhevichMarshal Zhukov
Konstantin BartashevichGeneral Sokolovsky
Andrei AbrikosovGeneral Antonov
Boris TeninLieutenant General Chuikov
Mikhail SidorkinMajor General Shtemenko
Boris AndreyevAleksei Ivanov
Marina KovalyovaNatasha Rumantseva
Yurii TymoshenkoKostya Zaychenko
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