Soldiers of Freedom

1977 film by Yuri Ozerov

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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 (1977)

Running time

| 599 minutes
Country| Soviet Union
Language| Russian

Soldiers of Freedom (Russian: 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

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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

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* Mikhail Ulyanov \- Marshal Zhukov
* Mircea Șeptilici \- judge[1]
* 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

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1. ^ "portfolio".

## External links

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

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Films directed by Yuri Ozerov

* Arena of the Bold (1953)
* Son (1955)
* Kochubey (1957)
* High Road (1959)
* Liberation (1970-1971)
* Visions of Eight (1973)
* Soldiers of Freedom (1977)
* O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981)
* Battle of Moscow (1985)
* Stalingrad (1990)
* Angels of Death (1993)

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