The Fall of Berlin

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The Fall of Berlin (1945)

Directed by Yuli Raizman, Elizaveta Svilova

Documentary, War · 1h 10m

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.

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Cast

Leonid Khmara Narrator (voice)
R
Rudolf Boettger Self Vasily Chuykov Self Hermann Göring Self Adolf Hitler Self (archive)
W
Wilhelm Keitel Self Benito Mussolini Self (archive)
C
Carl Spaatz Self Joseph Stalin Self
H
Hans-Erich Voss Self
H
Helmuth Weidling Self Georgi Zhukov Self

Crew

Director
Yuli Raizman, Elizaveta Svilova
Writer
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Original Music Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Editor
Elizaveta Svilova, Irina Setkina, Tatyana Likhachyova
Producer
Iosif Khmelnitsky

Details

Original title
Берлин
Release date
1945-06-17
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Documentary, War
Original language
RU
Spoken languages
German, Russian
Countries
Soviet Union
Production
Central Studio of Documentary Films