The Fall of Berlin

Jan 21, 1950

2h 47m

★ 4.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Marshal Iosef Visarionovic Stalin

Mikhail Gelovani

Party official

Aleksei Gribov

Party official

Maksim Shtraukh

Factory Superintendent Kumchinsky

Nikolai Bogolyubov

MRs Ivanov - Alexei's mother

Sofiya Giatsintova

Gen. Chujkov

Boris Tenin

Gen. Rokossovsky

Boris Livanov

Gen. Ivan Koniev

Sergei Blinnikov

Gen. Antonov

Andrei Abrikosov

Gen. Krebs

Vladimir Kenigson

General Brauchitsch

Nikolai Plotnikov

Veriko Anjaparidze

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