Soldiers of Freedom

Soldiers of Freedom
Soldiers of Freedom
	Original Bulgarian film poster
Directed by	Yuri Ozerov
Written by	Oscar Kurganov
Starring	Mikhail Ulyanov; Yevgeny Matveyev; Vasily Lanovoy
Cinematography	Igor Slabnevich
Music by	Yuri Levitin
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	1977;
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

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

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

^ "«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

Soldiers of Freedom at IMDb
Soldiers of Freedom at the Kino-teatr.ru (in Russian)

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[1] "«Баррандов» в роли «Красного Голливуда»". Archived from the original on 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2019-07-31.

[2] "Mircea Șeptilici". kino-teatr.ru.

[sovross-3] 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

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