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Russian | Падение Берлина |
Directed by | Mikheil Chiaureli |
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Produced by | Viktor Tsirgiladze |
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Cinematography | Leonid Kosmatov |
Edited by | Tatiana Likhacheva |
Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
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Distributed by | Amkino (United States) |
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Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
The Fall of Berlin (Russian: Падение Берлина, romanized: Padeniye Berlina) is a 1950 Soviet war and propaganda film, in two parts separated in the manner of a serial.[1] It was produced by Mosfilm Studio and directed by Mikheil Chiaureli, with a script written by 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.