The Third Blow

On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.

Director: Ihor Savchenko

Cast: Ivan Pereverzev, Mark Bernes, Mikhail Astangov, Nikolai Bogolyubov, Yuri Lavrov, Sergei Martinson, Aleksey Dikiy, Viktor Stanitsyn

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