The Fall of Berlin

4.5 / 10

(10 votes)

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.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Documentary,

War

Duration:

70 minutes

Year:

1945

Director:

Yuli Raizman

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Company:

Central Studio of Documentary Films

Cast:
Leonid Khmara

Narrator (voice)

Rudolf Boettger

Self

Vasiliy Chuikov

Self

Hermann Göring

Self

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive)

Crew:
Yuli Raizman

Director

Konstantin Vents

Camera Operator

Mykola Shpykovskyi

Writer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Original Music Composer

Elizaveta Svilova

Editor