- Country: East Germany, Poland, Soviet Union
- Genres: Drama, History, Romance
- Release: 1971-11-01
- Director: Yuriy Ozerov
- Writers: Yuri Bondarev , Oskar Kurganov , Yuriy Ozerov
- Language: Russian | German | Italian | Polish | English | French
- Stars: Mikhail Nozhkin , Nikolay Olyalin , Mikhail Ulyanov , Larisa Golubkina , Bukhuti Zakariadze , Vasiliy Shukshin , Nikolay Rybnikov , Vladislav Strzhelchik , Yevgeni Burenkov , Anatoliy Romashin
- Runtime: 125 min
- Awards: 1 win
- AKA: Befreiung III. Teil. Die Hauptstoßrichtung (Germany) , Išlaisvinimas (Lithuania) , La direccion del golpe principal (Argentina) , Libertação 3 - A Direção do Ataque Principal (Brazil) , The Great Battle (United States of America) , Освобождение: Направление главного удара , Osvobozeni , La Bataille de Berlin (France, French Republic) , La direccion del golpe principal (Mexico) , Освобождение: Направление главного удара (Russian Federation) , Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara , Liberation , Osvobozhdenie: Napravleniye glavnogo udara , Eliberare a III-a parte - Obiectivul principal (Romania) , Liberation (Thailand) , Taistelutanner (Finland) , Tankların savaşı (Turkey) , Liberation (Canada) , Wyzwolenie III: Kierunek głównego uderzenia (Poland) , Απελευθέρωσις (Greece) , Befreiung , La batalla de Berlin (Spain) , Liberation (Egypt) , The Direction of the Main Blow , La Bataille de Berlin (Belgium) , Ildbuen (Denmark) , La direccion del golpe principal (Colombia) , 解放3:主攻方向 (China) , ヨーロッパの解放 (Japan) , La grande battaglia (Italy) , Yôroppa no kaihou dai sanbu - Dai houi gekimetu sakusen (Japan)
- Plot:
This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union’s war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.
- IMDB:tt0198811
Liberation Cast · · · ALL
Yuriy Ozerov
Director
Mikhail Ulyanov
Maršál Žukov
Fritz Diez
Hitler
Nikolay Olyalin
Cvetajev
Vladlen Davydov
Gen. Rokossovsky
Yevgeni Burenkov
Gen. Vasilevsky
Mikhail Nozhkin
Yartsev
Larisa Golubkina
Zoya
Bukhuti Zakariadze
Stalin
Vasiliy Shukshin
Gen. Konev
Nikolay Rybnikov
Gen. Panov
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Gen. Antonov
Anatoliy Romashin
Gen. Shatilov
Pyotr Shcherbakov
Gen. Telegin
Ivan Pereverzev
Gen. Chuykov
Dmitri Franko
Gen. Rybalko
Tõnu Aav
German officer in a concentration camp
Viktor Avdyushko
Maximov
Iren Azer
Tanechka
Paul Berndt
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim / Arthur Axmann
Viktor Bortsov
Grigory Oriol
Barbara Brylska
Helena
Georgiy Burkov
Russian soldier
Otto Dierichs
Erwin von Witzleben
Werner Dissel
Alfred Jodl
Yuriy Dubrovin
messenger sent to Leontyev