The Third Blow (1948)

4.3/10 • 106 min • War History

Overview

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.

Cast

Ivan Pereverzev

General Yakov Kreizer

Mark Bernes

Sailor Chmega

Mikhail Astangov

General Erwin Jaenecke

Nikolai Bogolyubov

Kliment Voroshilov

Yuri Lavrov

Myustegib Fagil

Sergei Martinson

Adolf Hitler

Aleksey Dikiy

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin

Viktor Stanitsyn

F. I. Tolbukhin

Mikhail Romanov

Alexey Antonov

Vladimir Batalov

Arzhanov, soldier of general Nevzorov's corps

Yurii Shumskyi

Marshal Vasilevskiy

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