The Fall of Berlin
movie
Released June 17, 1945
Genres:
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
as
Narrator (voice)
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Rudolf Boettger
as
Self
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Vasiliy Chuikov
as
Self
Hermann Göring
as
Self
Adolf Hitler
as
Self (archive)
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Wilhelm Keitel
as
Self
Benito Mussolini
as
Self (archive)
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Carl Spaatz
as
Self
Joseph Stalin
as
Self
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Hans-Erich Voss
as
Self
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Helmuth Weidling
as
Self
Georgi Zhukov
as
Self
Crew
Yuli Raizman
as
Director
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Konstantin Vents
as
Camera Operator
Mykola Shpykovskyi
as
Writer
Dmitri Shostakovich
as
Original Music Composer
Elizaveta Svilova
as
Editor
Irina Setkina
as
Editor
Tatyana Likhachyova
as
Editor
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Iosif Khmelnitsky
as
Producer
Mikhail Poselskiy
as
Camera Operator
Elizaveta Svilova
as
Director
Roman Karmen
as
Camera Operator
Mykola Shpykovskyi
as
Assistant Director