Overview
On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Mikhail Kirillov
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Arkadi PerventsevWriter
- Original title
- Третий удар
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 26, 1948
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Ivan PereverzevGeneral Yakov Kreizer
Mark BernesSailor Chmega
Mikhail AstangovGeneral Erwin Jaenecke
Nikolai BogolyubovKliment Voroshilov
Yuri LavrovMyustegib Fagil
Sergei MartinsonAdolf Hitler
Aleksey DikiyIosif Vissarionovich Stalin
Viktor StanitsynF. I. Tolbukhin
Mikhail RomanovAlexey Antonov
Vladimir BatalovArzhanov, soldier of general Nevzorov's corps
Yurii ShumskyiMarshal Vasilevskiy
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