Soldiers of Freedom
{{Short description|1977 film by Yuri Ozerov}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Soldiers of Freedom
| image = Soldiers_of_Freedom.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Original Bulgarian film poster
| director = Yuri Ozerov
| producer =
| writer = Oscar Kurganov
| starring = Mikhail Ulyanov
Yevgeny Matveyev
Vasily Lanovoy
| music = Yuri Levitin
| cinematography = Igor Slabnevich
| editing =
| studio = Mosfilm
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1977}}
| runtime = 599 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Soldiers of Freedom ({{langx|ru|Солдаты свободы}}) 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 - Marshal Zhukov
- Mircea Șeptilici - judge{{Cite web |title=portfolio |url=https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/euro/267570/works/}}
- 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
- Károly Ujlaky - János Kádár
- Miklós Benedek - Gen. Ludvík Svoboda
- Anton Gorchev - Dobri Dzhurov
- Violeta Bahchevanova - Roza Dimitrova
- Valentin Kazancki - Winston Churchill
- Stanisław Jaśkiewicz - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Naum Shopov - Tzar Boris III
- Fritz Diez - Adolf Hitler
- Gerd Michael Henneberg - Wilhelm Keitel
- Horst Gill - Otto Günsche
- Pavel Popandov - Tzano Velchev
- Valentin Gadzhokov - Atanas Hadzhiyanchev
- Zlatko Pavlov - Zdravko
- Nikolai Ouzounov - Tzvyatko
- Zbigniew Józefowicz - Piotr Jaroszewicz
- Edward Linde-Lubaszenko - Edward Gierek
- Jerzy Turek
- Constantin Fugașin - Nicolae Ceaușescu
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0076736}}
- [http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/6636/annot/ Soldiers of Freedom.Kino-teatr.ru] {{in lang|ru}}
{{Yuri Ozerov}}
Category:1970s war drama films
Category:1970s historical drama films
Category:1970s Russian-language films
Category:Soviet war drama films
Category:Soviet historical drama films
Category:Soviet World War II films
Category:Films directed by Yuri Ozerov
Category:Czech resistance to Nazi occupation in film
Category:Films set in Yugoslavia during World War II
Category:Cultural depictions of Joseph Stalin
Category:Cultural depictions of Leonid Brezhnev
Category:Films about Adolf Hitler
Category:Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill
Category:Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Category:Cultural depictions of Georgy Zhukov
Category:Cultural depictions of Josip Broz Tito
Category:Films about Polish resistance during World War II
Category:Works about the Warsaw Uprising
Category:Russian-language war drama films
Category:Russian-language historical drama films
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