Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

1971

2h 5m

6.0(100 votes)

War

Drama

Overview

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.

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95 members

Acting

Николай Олялин

Tsvetaev

Acting

Лариса Голубкина

Zoya

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Борис Зайденберг

Orlov

Acting

Михаил Ульянов

Zhukov

Acting

Владлен Давыдов

Rokossovsky

Acting

Евгений Буренков

Vasilevsky

Acting

Владислав Стржельчик

Antonov

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Василий Шукшин

Konev

Acting

Сергей Харченко

Vatutin

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Евгений Колчинский

Chernyakhovsky

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Viktor Kosenko

Meretskov

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Writing

Валерий Карен

Bagramyan

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Acting

Клеон Протасов

Shtemenko

No Image

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Владимир Заманский

Batov

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Николай Рыбников

Panov

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ბუხუტი ზაქარიაძე

Stalin

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Stanisław Jaśkiewicz

Roosevelt

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Юрий Дуров

Churchill

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Fritz Diez

Hitler

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Erich Thiede

Himmler

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Horst Giese

Goebbels

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Gerd Michael Henneberg

Keitel

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Hannjo Hasse

Kluge

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Peter Sturm

Model

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H. Scheltzke

Fromm

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Hinrich Köhn

Remer

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Alfred Struwe

Stauffenberg

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Wilfried Ortmann

Olbricht

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Hans-Edgar Stecher

Haeften

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Werner Wieland

Beck

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Otto Dierichs

Witzleben

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Евгений Шутов

partisan, father

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Виктор Вахлин

partisan, son

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Лев Прыгунов

Jacques, pilot

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Владимир Разумовский

Zaitsev, pilot

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Wieńczysław Gliński

'Blacksmith'

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Maciej Nowakowski

Aleksander Zawadzki

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Tadeusz Schmidt

Berling

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Erno Bertoli

French pilot

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J.-P. Izhezhen

French pilot

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B. Raffali

French pilot

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A. Sentonz

French pilot

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B. White

English ambassador

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Артём Карапетян

narrator (voice)

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Владимир Анисько

Unknown Role

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Елизавета Алексеева

Unknown Role

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О. Аленников

Unknown Role

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Ирина Азер

Tanechka

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Виктор Байков

Vyacheslav Molotov

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Александр Барушной

Alan Brooke

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Владимир Богаткин

Unknown Role

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Николай Боголюбов

Kliment Voroshilov

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Виктор Волков

Unknown Role

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Вячеслав Воронин

Unknown Role

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Пётр Глебов

Rotmistrov

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Алексей Глазырин

Panteleimon Ponomarenko

Acting

Валентин Грачёв

Anatoliy Golbov

Acting

Николай Гресь

Unknown Role

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Юрий Емельянов

Unknown Role

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Владимир Кашпур

Unknown Role

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Анатолий Кузнецов

Unknown Role

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С. Кузмичёв

Unknown Role

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Yulian Kozlovskiy

Unknown Role

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Николай Лебедев

Unknown Role

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Сергей Малишевский

Unknown Role

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Григорий Михайлов

Unknown Role

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Георгий Рыбаков

Unknown Role

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Николай Серебренников

Unknown Role

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Александр Смирнов

Unknown Role

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С. Содейко

Unknown Role

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Анатолий Соловьёв

Unknown Role

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Александр Титов

Unknown Role

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Евгений Фельгенгауэр

Unknown Role

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А. Шкаровский

Unknown Role

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Fred Alexander

Elyesa Bazna

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Max Bernhardt

Unknown Role

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Production

Manfred Bendik

Unknown Role

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Paul Berndt

Unknown Role

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Regina Beyer

Unknown Role

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Ralf Böhmke

Adolf Hamann

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Horst Gill

Otto Günsche

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Erich Gerberding

Ernst Busch

Acting

Werner Dissel

Alfred Jodl

Directing

Rolf Losansky

Unknown Role

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G. Maynokat

Unknown Role

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Jiří Papež

Unknown Role

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Rolf Ripperger

Unknown Role

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Ulrich Teschner

Unknown Role

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F. Efechner

Unknown Role

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R. Hyman

Unknown Role

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Ernst-Georg Schwill

Unknown Role

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Willi Schrade

Unknown Role

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Николай Погодин

(uncredited)

Acting

Herbert Körbs

(uncredited)

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Fritz Ernst Fechner

(uncredited)

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