Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara (1971)

Awards
- 1 win total

Nikolay Olyalin

Tsvetaev

Mikhail Ulyanov

Gen. Zhukov

Larisa Golubkina

Zoya

Bukhuti Zakariadze

Stalin
(as Bukhuti Zaqariadze)

Vasiliy Shukshin

Gen. Konev

Nikolay Rybnikov

Gen. Panov

Vladislav Strzhelchik

Gen. Antonov

Yevgeni Burenkov

Gen. Vasilevsky

Anatoliy Romashin

Gen. Shatilov

Pyotr Shcherbakov

Gen. Telegin

Ivan Pereverzev

Gen. Chuykov

Vladlen Davydov

Gen. Rokossovsky

Sergei Kharchenko

Gen. Vatutin

Dmitri Franko

Gen. Rybalko

Nikolay Rushkovskiy

Gen. Moskalenko

Peter Sturm

Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model

Herbert Körbs

General Heinz Guderian

Director
- Yuriy Ozerov
Writers
All cast & crew
Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

User reviews5

Featured review

10/10

One of the absolute best war movies ever !

One of the best WAR movies I have ever seen, it ranks on top of my list with "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN", "CROSS OF IRON", "WINDTALKER","COME AND SEE" etc... It's about the kursk-salient battle, the biggest tank battle of WW2. When I saw this movie in a small west german cinma (Bielefeld 1970), I was very impressed about every careful researched historical detail in this awesome and in the west absolutely unknown movie. The movie is also in color, with good special effects. The military hardware, tanks, planes and infantry weapons are historically correct. The acting was good, and there was not a boring minute in the whole movie. It takes you right into the action, after a brief but comprehensive introduction.

videoflk
Oct 18, 2002
Permalink

Photos7

More like this

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Official submission of Soviet Union for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 46th Academy Awards in 1974.

Goofs
In the Battle of Kursk, German Tiger tanks are shown firing on the move. Tanks did not yet have stabilized guns in WWII and generally stopped to fire because otherwise they would not have been able to hit anything.

Alternate versions
In the United States, Columbia Pictures released a version that removed approximately 75% of the footage, resulting in a running time of just under two hours and titled "The Great Battle". Columbia's release prints were only available in 35mm anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1).