The Third Blow

The Third Blow (1948)

Третий удар

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.

Date of release
1948-04-26
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 46m
Genres
War, History
Director
Ihor Savchenko

Casting

Interesting facts

The Third Blow is a Soviet 1948 war film directed by Igor Savchenko.

Production

The film's title was derived from the third of Stalin's ten blows, the Crimean Offensive of spring 1944, which served as the setting for the story.

The Third Blow was the first of the 'Artistic Documentaries', a series of large-scale Soviet screen productions which were meant to present the official interpretation of the USSR's history, especially the history of the Second World War. As all the artistic documentaries concerned with the war, The Third Blow consisted mainly of battle scenes, strewn with staff meetings of the Red Army's generals and Stalin.

The film, in compliance with Stalin's cult of personality, presented the Soviet leader in a highly favorable manner, centering on his role as the supreme commander. Aleksei Dikiy, who performed his role, was reportedly Stalin's favorite for depicting himself.

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