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The Fall of Berlin

1945-06-17
4.5
ru 70m
DocumentaryWar
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.

Director

Yuli Raizman

Camera Operator

Konstantin Vents

Writer

Mykola Shpykovskyi

Original Music Composer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Editor

Elizaveta Svilova

Editor

Irina Setkina

Status

Released

Countries

  • Soviet Union

Companies

  • Central Studio of Documentary Films