The Fall of Berlin

Overview

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.

Top Cast

Leonid Khmara

Narrator (voice)

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Rudolf Boettger

Self

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Vasiliy Chuikov

Self

Hermann Göring

Self

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive)

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Wilhelm Keitel

Self

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive)

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Carl Spaatz

Self

Joseph Stalin

Self

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Hans-Erich Voss

Self