| Soldiers of Freedom | |
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 Original Bulgarian film poster | |
| Directed by | Yuri Ozerov[1] |
| Written by | Oscar Kurganov |
| Starring | Mikhail Ulyanov Yevgeny Matveyev Vasily Lanovoy |
| Cinematography | Igor Slabnevich |
| Music by | Yuri Levitin |
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Release date |
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Running time | 599 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Soldiers of Freedom (Russian: Солдаты свободы, romanized: Soldaty svobody) is a four-part 1977 film epic directed by Yuri Ozerov and starring Mikhail Ulyanov, Yevgeny Matveyev, Vasily Lanovoy. It is a World War II historical drama and the sequel to 1970-71's Liberation.
Plot
[edit]The film reflects the following events of World War II: the capitulation of Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army as a result of the failed assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942; the preparation for revolt in Slovakia; negotiations of the Polish communists with Władysław Sikorski's government over their joint struggle against fascism; the creation of a National Committee of the Domestic Front in Bulgaria and preparation by underground workers-communists for armed revolt; expansion of the guerrilla (partisan) movement; the failure of a German attempt to destroy People's Liberation Army of Josip Broz Tito; one of the largest military operations, Bagration; the beginning of the liberation of Poland; creation of the Polish National Government in Lublin; the Warsaw Uprising; the capitulation of Bór-Komorowski and defeat of the Polish patriots; the entry of Soviet and Polish armies into Warsaw.
Cast
[edit]- Mikhail Ulyanov as Marshal Zhukov
- Mircea Șeptilici as judge[2]
- Yevgeny Matveyev as Leonid Brezhnev[3]
- Vasily Lanovoy as Andrei Grechko
- Stefan Getsov as Georgi Dimitrov
- Viktor Avdyushko as Marshal Ivan Konev
- Bohus Pastorek as Klement Gottwald
- Horst Preusker as Wilhelm Pieck
- Yakov Tripolsky as Joseph Stalin
- Lubomir Kabakchiyev as Palmiro Togliatti
- Boris Belov as Maurice Thorez
- Peter Stefanou as Todor Zhivkov
- Vladlen Davydov as Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
- Károly Ujlaky as János Kádár
- Miklós Benedek as Gen. Ludvík Svoboda
- Anton Gorchev as Dobri Dzhurov
- Violeta Bahchevanova as Roza Dimitrova
- Valentin Kazancki as Winston Churchill
- Stanisław Jaśkiewicz as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Naum Shopov as Tzar Boris III
- Fritz Diez as Adolf Hitler
- Gerd Michael Henneberg as Wilhelm Keitel
- Horst Gill as Otto Günsche
- Pavel Popandov as Tzano Velchev
- Valentin Gadzhokov as Atanas Hadzhiyanchev
- Zlatko Pavlov as Zdravko
- Nikolai Ouzounov as Tzvyatko
- Zbigniew Józefowicz as Piotr Jaroszewicz
- Edward Linde-Lubaszenko as Edward Gierek
- Jerzy Turek
- Constantin Fugașin as Nicolae Ceaușescu
References
[edit]- ^ "«Баррандов» в роли «Красного Голливуда»". Archived from the original on 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
- ^ "Mircea Șeptilici". kino-teatr.ru.
- ^ Фёдор Раззаков. Солдаты свободы. К 30-летию выхода на экраны киноэпопеи Юрия Озерова Archived 2018-02-07 at the Wayback Machine // Газета «Советская Россия», 12 апреля 2007 года
External links
[edit]- Soldiers of Freedom at IMDb
- Soldiers of Freedom at the Kino-teatr.ru (in Russian)
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