The Fall of Berlin (1945)
Берлин
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.
- Date of release
- 1945-06-17
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Director
- Yuli Raizman, Elizaveta Svilova
Casting
- Leonid Khmara — Narrator (voice)
- Rudolf Boettger — Self
- Vasily Chuykov — Self
- Hermann Göring — Self
- Adolf Hitler — Self (archive)
- Wilhelm Keitel — Self
- Benito Mussolini — Self (archive)
- Carl Spaatz — Self
- Joseph Stalin — Self
- Hans-Erich Voss — Self
- Helmuth Weidling — Self
- Georgi Zhukov — Self
Interesting facts
Fall of Berlin – 1945, The Fall of Berlin, or just Berlin is a Soviet documentary film about the Battle of Berlin, titled in Russian Битва за Берлин 1945 г., literally The Battle for Berlin – 1945. The film was directed by Yuli Raizman and Yelizaveta Svilova.
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