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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.

Status: Released
Released Date: 1945-06-17
Runtime: 70 mins
Director: Yuli Raizman, Elizaveta Svilova
Writer: Mykola Shpykovskyi
Spoken language: Deutsch, Pусский
Genres: Documentary, War
Original title: The Fall of Berlin
Production Companies: Central Studio of Documentary Films
Production Countries: Soviet Union