Liberation

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Yuri OZEROV

Юрий ОЗЕРОВ

Youri OZEROV

USSR / Italy, 1970, 477 mn

Colour, fiction

Liberation

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Освобождение

La Libération

Osvobozhdenie

Directed by : Yuri OZEROV (Юрий ОЗЕРОВ)

Writing credits : Yuri BONDARYEV (Юрий БОНДАРЕВ), Oskar KURGANOV (Оскар КУРГАНОВ), Yuri OZEROV (Юрий ОЗЕРОВ)

Cast

Yuri BOGOLYUBOV (Юрий БОГОЛЮБОВ) ...Interprète de Molotov à Teheran

Barbara BRYLSKA (Барбара БРЫЛЬСКА)

Georgi BURKOV (Георгий БУРКОВ) ...Sergent

Nikolay EREMENKO sr. (Николай ЕРЕМЕНКО ст.)

Pyotr GLEBOV (Пётр ГЛЕБОВ)

Mikhail GLUZSKY (Михаил ГЛУЗСКИЙ) ...Riajentsev

Vladimir KASHPUR (Владимир КАШПУР)

Mikhail KOKSHENOV (Михаил КОКШЕНОВ)

Leonid KURAVLIOV (Леонид КУРАВЛЕВ)

Anatoli KUZNETSOV (Анатолий КУЗНЕЦОВ)

Daniel OLBRYCHSKI (Даниэль ОЛЬБРЫХСКИЙ) ...Henri

Ivan PEREVERZEV (Иван ПЕРЕВЕРЗЕВ)

Anatoli ROMASHIN (Анатолий РОМАШИН) ...Général Chatilov

Vladimir SAMOYLOV (Владимир САМОЙЛОВ) ...Gromov

Vsevolod SANAEV (Всеволод САНАЕВ) ...Loukine

Vasili SHUKSHIN (Василий ШУКШИН) ...marshal Ivan Konev

Roman TKACHUK (Роман ТКАЧУК) ...Général-Major Epitsev

Mikhail ULYANOV (Михаил УЛЬЯНОВ) ...Zhukov

Cinematography : Igor SLABNEVICH (Игорь СЛАБНЕВИЧ)

Production design : Aleksandr MYAGKOV (Александр МЯГКОВ)

Music : Yuri LEVITIN (Юрий ЛЕВИТИН)

Sound : Yevgeniya INDLINA (Евгения ИНДЛИНА), Yevgeni KASHKEVICH (Евгений КАШКЕВИЧ), Yuri MIKHAILOV (Юрий МИХАЙЛОВ)

Production : Mosfilm, Dino de Laurentis

Release date in Russia : 1971

Note :
A five-film saga about the Second World War :
- The Fiery Shaft-bow (Огненная дуга / Ognennaya duga)
- Breakthrough (Прорыв / Proryv)
- Direction of the main blow (Направление главного удара / Napravlenie glavnogo udara)
- The Battle for Berlin (Битва за Берлин / Bitva za Berlin)
- The Final storming (Последний штурм / Posledniy shturm)

DVD with subtitles

Editeur : Bach Films. 2017. Titre : La Libération.

Bonus : entretien avec Ada Ackerman à propos : - des films (1) 13 mn 21 (2) 6 mn 38 (3) 8 mn 10 (4) 8 mn 28 et (5) 7 mn 34 - de La Grande Guerre Patriotique dans le cinéma russe (20 mn 55) - Le Cycle de La Libération (23 mn 01)

Plot synopsis

The epic tells us about the heroic battle at Kursk Bulge, crossing of the Dnieper by Soviet Army, capture of Kiev and Teheran meeting of allies.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru

Commentaries and bibliography

A five-film saga about the Second World War :

- The Fiery Shaft-bow :
The battle of Kursk, the largest armored battle in the history of warfare. The Soviet tank corps delivers the Nazis army its first major defeat of the war.

- Breakthrough :
The Soviet army's assault against the occupying fascist armies in 1944. The events of the film begin with the crossing of the Dniepr River.

- Direction of the main blow :
"Operation Bagration," the largest military assualt undertaken by the Soviet army in the autumn of 1944. The goal of the operation was to liberate Belorussia and open the way for the Soviet armies to begin moving west towards Berlin.

- The Battle for Berlin :
The events of the spring of 1945: the Soviet Union launches the largest military campaign of the war against Berlin while the Allies encounter little resistance on the Western front.

- The Final storming :
the storming of Berlin and of the Reichstag. The first signs of victory are celebrated in the streets of a devastated city.

Selected in the following festivals :

- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2015

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

Photos and videos

Film 1 and film 2 with English and French subtitles : Click here

Film 3, film 4 and film 5 with English and French subtitles : Click here

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