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The Fall of Berlin (1950) [N/A]

Release Date:
January 21, 1950

Original Title:
Падение Берлина

Alternate Titles:
La chute de Berlin
Падение Берлина

Genres:
Drama | War

Production Companies:
Mosfilm

Production Countries:
Soviet Union

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 167

Overview from TheMovieDB

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

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Costume Design:
Valentin Perelyotov

Director:
Mikheil Chiaureli

Director of Photography:
Leonid Kosmatov

Editor:
Tatyana Likhachyova

Executive Producer:
Victor Tsirgiladze

Makeup Artist:
Vladimir Yakovlev

Original Music Composer:
Dmitri Shostakovich

Production Design:
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Aleksei Parkhomenko

Screenplay:
Mikheil Chiaureli

Writer:
Pyotr Pavlenko

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