The Fall of Berlin (1950)

Original title

Падение Берлина

Directed by

Mikheil Chiaureli

Genre

war film, epic film, propaganda film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 31m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Soviet film covers World War II from the German invasion through the fall of Berlin. It portrays Joseph Stalin as the central strategist and hero guiding the Soviet victory.

grandiosetriumphantsolemnheroicepic-scalepatrioticstagedreverential

What happens

The Fall of Berlin (Russian: Падение Берлина, romanized: Padeniye Berlina) is a 1950 Soviet two-part epic war and propaganda film. It was produced by Mosfilm Studio and directed by Mikheil Chiaureli, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Pyotr Pavlenko, and a musical score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. Portraying the history of the Second World War with a focus on a highly positive depiction of the role Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (played by Mikheil Gelovani) played in the events, it is considered one of the most important manifestations of Stalin's cult of personality, and a noted example of Soviet realism. After De-Stalinization, the film was banned in the Eastern Bloc for several decades. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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