The Fall of Berlin (1945)
Overview
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.
Cast
Leonid Khmara
Narrator (voice)
Vasily Chuykov
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Hermann Göring
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Adolf Hitler
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Benito Mussolini
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Joseph Stalin
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Georgi Zhukov
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