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The Fall of Berlin (1945)

The Fall of Berlin (1945)

War Documentary
Release Date: 1945, June 17
Directors: Yuli Raizman, Elizaveta Svilova
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Central Studio of Documentary Films
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Leonid Khmara, Joseph Stalin, Hermann Göring, Georgi Zhukov, Wilhelm Keitel, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov, Carl Spaatz, Hans-Erich Voss, Helmuth Weidling

Overview:

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.