| Liberation | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Liberation_(film_series).jpg) Original film poster | |
| Directed by | Yuri Ozerov |
| Screenplay by | Yuri Bondarev Oscar Kurganov Yuri Ozerov |
| Produced by | Lidia Kanareikina |
| Starring | Nikolay Olyalin Larisa Golubkina Boris Seidenberg |
| Narrated by | Artyom Karapetian |
| Cinematography | Igor Slabnevich (70 mm) |
| Edited by | Ekaterina Karpova |
| Music by | Yuri Levitin |
Production companies | Mosfilm DEFA-Babelsberg ZF-Start (films I, II) Zespoły Filmowe (III-V) Avala Film (I) Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica |
Release dates | I, II: 7 May 1970 III: 31 July 1971 IV, V : 5 November 1971 |
Running time | 477 minutes (original) 445 minutes (remastered 2002 version) Part I: 88 minutes Part II: 85 minutes Part III: 122 minutes Part IV: 79 minutes Part V: 71 minutes |
| Countries | Soviet Union East Germany Poland Yugoslavia Italy |
| Languages | Russian, German, English, Polish, Italian, French, Serbo-Croatian |
Liberation (Russian: Освобождение, translit. Osvobozhdenie, German: Befreiung, Polish: Wyzwolenie) is a film series released in 1970 and 1971, directed by Yuri Ozerov and shot in wide-format NIKFI process (70 mm). The script was written by Yuri Bondarev and Oscar Kurganov. The series was a Soviet-Polish-East German-Italian-Yugoslav co-production.
The films are a dramatized account of the liberation of the Soviet Union's territory and the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, focusing on five major Eastern Front campaigns: the Battle of Kursk, the Lower Dnieper Offensive, Operation Bagration, the Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin.