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Wikipedia article




'Soldiers of Freedom' 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



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 Wadysaw 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 Br-Komorowski and defeat of the Polish patriots; the entry of Soviet and Polish armies into Warsaw.

Cast



*Mikhail Ulyanov - 'Marshal Zhukov'

*Yevgeny Matveyev - 'Leonid Brezhnev'

*Vasily Lanovoy - 'Andrei Grechko'

*Stefan Getsov - 'Georgi Dimitrov'

*Viktor Avdyushko - 'Marshal Ivan Konev'

*Bohus Pastorek - 'Klement Gottwald'

*Horst Preusker - 'Wilhelm Pieck'

*Yakov Tripolsky - 'Joseph Stalin'

*Lubomir Kabakchiyev - 'Palmiro Togliatti'

*Boris Belov - 'Maurice Thorez'

*Peter Stefanou - 'Todor Zhivkov'

*Vladlen Davydov - 'Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky'

*Kroly Ujlaky - 'Jnos Kdr'

*Mikls Benedek - Gen. 'Ludvk Svoboda'

*Anton Gorchev - 'Dobri Dzhurov'

*Violeta Bahchevanova - 'Roza Dimitrova'

*Valentin Kazancki - 'Winston Churchill'

*Stanisaw Jakiewicz - 'Franklin D. Roosevelt'

*Naum Shopov - 'Tzar Boris III'

*Fritz Diez - 'Adolf Hitler'

*Gerd Michael Henneberg - 'Wilhelm Keitel'

*Horst Gill - 'Otto Gnsche'

*Pavel Popandov - 'Tzano Velchev'

*Valentin Gadzhokov - 'Atanas Hadzhiyanchev'

*Zlatko Pavlov - 'Zdravko'

*Nikolai Ouzounov - 'Tzvyatko'

*Zbigniew Jzefowicz - 'Piotr Jaroszewicz'

*Edward Linde-Lubaszenko - 'Edward Gierek'

*Jerzy Turek

*Constantin Fugain - 'Nicolae Ceauescu'


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