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A five part WW2 epic drama that gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945.Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.The first part deals with the 1943 great tank Battle of Kursk.The second part... Read all. Director.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Yuriy Ozerov
- 1970-05
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Film I: The Fire Bulge
After the Soviets are alerted to the imminent German offensive in Kursk, they launch a preemptive artillery strike, delaying the enemy. The battalion of Lieutenant Colonel Lukin – led by officers Tzvetaev, Orlov, and Maximov – participates in the battle, as well as the tank of Lieutenant Vasiliev. In KZ Sachsenhausen, Yakov Dzhugashvili refuses Andrei Vlasov's offer to exchange him for Friedrich Paulus. Meanwhile, in Kursk, the Germans advance. Maximov flees, but finally turns back and choose...
Film II: Breakthrough
After the Allied landing in Sicily, Mussolini is arrested on the King's orders. In Warsaw, the Polish Resistance bombs a German cinema. Mussolini is rescued by Otto Skorzenyand his commandos. The Red Army reaches the Dnieper. Lukin's regiment crosses it, presumably as the division's vanguard; unbeknownst to them, they are merely a ploy to mislead the enemy. The regiment is cut off without reinforcements and wiped out. Lukin is killed. Tzvetaev leads the survivors back to their lines. On Stali...
Film IV: The Battle of Berlin
Stalin orders to hasten the Vistula-Oder offensive in order to relieve the Allies. Karl Wolff is sent to negotiate with the Americans. Zhukov rejects Stavka's order to take Berlin, fearing an attack on his flank. In Yalta, Stalin notifies Churchill and Roosevelt that he knows of their secret dealings with the enemy. Saying that trust is the most important thing, he tears apart the picture showing Allen Dulles and Wolff. Zhukov's forces cross the Oder and approach Berlin. The Soviets capture a...
Others
1. Ivo Garrani as Benito Mussolini. 2. Erno Bertoli as Pierre Pouyade. 3. Florin Piersic as Otto Skorzeny. 4. B. White as Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen.
Background
Yuri Ozerov studied at GITIS when he was conscripted into the Red Army in 1939. Ozerov later told his wife that during the Battle of Königsberg, he swore that one day "he would tell the story of the great army that fought in the war". After demobilization, he became a director in the Mosfilmstudios. In the 1960s, both the Soviet government and military command were dismayed and disgruntled by several Western films about World War II which made no reference to the Red Army's participation in i...
Development
The work on the series commenced in 1966. German film scholar Ralf Schenk noted that "virtually all means were made available... for Ozerov"; Lars Karl estimated the project's budget was equivalent to US$40 million. The director was also closely supervised – the series had to meet the approval of General Alexei Yepishev, the Chief of the Armed Forces' Political Directorate, as well as that of Mikhail Suslov. Lazar Lazarev, a member of the Soviet Filmmakers' Association, wrote "Liberation ...w...
Casting
A major obstacle facing the producers was that most of the Soviet leadership took part in the war; Many high-ranking officers and politicians were portrayed in the films with their wartime ranks, and the actors depicting them had to receive the models' blessing. Ozerov lengthily dwelt on the question who would be cast as Zhukov, until the Marshal himself aided him, telling he thought about the star of The Chairman. Thus, Mikhail Ulyanov received the role. Ivan Konev was irritated by Yuri Legh...
Distribution
The Fire Bulge and Breakthrough were released together in 2,202 prints on 7 May 1970 (including more than 200 prints in 70 mm), two days before the 25th anniversary of Victory Day. Richard Stites reported that the Communist Party instructed all its members to purchase tickets. 56.1 million people watched the first, of which 56 million returned after the intermission for the second. Those figures were lower than expected, as popular pictures about the war which did not enjoy such promotion had...
Awards
The Fire Bulge/Breakthrough was screened outside the competition in the 1970 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and Yuri Ozerov received a special prize of the Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship Society. The readers of the journal Sovietsky Ekran, the State Committee for Cinematography's official publication, chose The Direction of the Main Blowas the best film of 1971. Ozerov, Bondarev, Cinematographer Igor Slabnevich and Art Director Alexander Myaghkov were all awarded the Lenin Prize in...
Critical response
In accordance with government endorsement, the Soviet press excessively promoted the Liberation, and war veterans published columns praising its authenticity. The Soviet Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary cited it as correcting the "falsification of history" presented in The Longest Day. The films were noted for the scales of the production: Mira and Antonín J. Liehm cited it alongside Waterloo and War and Peace as foremost among Soviet "monumental films, which, with the expenditure of immense a...
The Fire Bulge on YouTube, Breakthrough on YouTube, Direction of the Main Blow part I on YouTube and part II on YouTube, The Battle of Berlin on YouTube and The Last Assault on YouTubeon Mosfilm's...Stills related to Liberation[permanent dead link] on RIA Novosti's photographs archive.1970. Освобождение 2: Прорыв. Directed by Yuri Ozerov. A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - “Liberation”. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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A five part WW2 epic drama that gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945.Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.The first part deals with the 1943 great tank Battle of Kursk.The second part details the September 1943 Lower Dnieper Offensive.The third part ...
Osvobozhdenie: Proryv is a film directed by Yuri Ozerov with Larisa Golubkina, Bukhuti Zaqariadze, Vasili Shukshin, Nikolai Rybnikov .... Year: 1970. Original title: Osvobozhdenie: Proryv. Synopsis:META_DESC_FILM_PROVIDERS see Osvobozhdenie: Proryv how where
Osvobozhdenie: Ognennaya duga: Directed by Yuriy Ozerov. With Nikolay Olyalin, Larisa Golubkina, Boris Seidenberg, Sergey Nikonenko. The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II.
A five part WW2 epic drama that gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945.Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.The first part deals with the 1943 great tank Battle of Kursk.The second part details the September 1943 Lower Dnieper Offensive.The third part ...
