The Fall of Berlin

Synopsis

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

Yuli Raizman

Director

Elizaveta Svilova

Director

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

Yuli Raizman

Director

Elizaveta Svilova

Director

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