M. Gelovani, M. Shtraukh, A. Gribov, N. Ryz͡hov, G. Belov, R. Simonov, G. Pasechnik, A. Khanov, B. Andreev, B. Tenin, B. Libanov. Originally released as a motion picture in 1949. Special features include slide show with accompanying scholarly commentary.
Heroic Joseph Stalin inspires the troops to defeat a cowering Hitler in this no-expense-spared dramatization of the fall of Berlin in 1945. Presented to Stalin as a 70th-birthday gift but pulled from circulation in 1953, the film was made on Agfacolor stock removed from Germany by the Red Army.
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