The Fall of Berlin

The Fall of Berlin 1945

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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.

  • Released: 1945-06-17
  • Runtime: 66 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary, War
  • Stars: Leonid Khmara, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Wilhelm Keitel, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Georgi Zhukov, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov, Carl Spaatz, Helmuth Weidling, Hans-Erich Voss
  • Director: Yuli Raizman