The Fall of Berlin

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, Elizaveta Svilova

Cast: Leonid Khmara, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Keitel, Benito Mussolini, Carl Spaatz

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