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.

Genres

Cast

Leonid Khmara

Narrator (voice)

Hermann Göring

Self

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive)

Joseph Stalin

Self

Georgi Zhukov

Self