1945 Spring of Victory 1985, 1985.

Uniform title
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Description
online resource (video file 0:31:51) : Sound, Black and White.

Availability

Available Online

Details

Director
Script
Sponsoring body
Production company
Digitizer
Series
  • The Second World War & the Rise of Fascism
  • Socialism on Film. Wars & Revolutions
Compiled/​Created
1985, 1985.
Summary note
Archive compilation of the final year of the Second World War. The film opens with the 1944 battle for Budapest and the march on Hitler’s headquarters at Rastenburg. It also covers the Soviet capture of Gdansk, crossing the Vistula and Oder rivers, the liberation of Vienna, and the meeting of US and USSR troops on the River Elbe at Torgau. The second half of the documentary looks at the Yalta conference and the battle for Berlin, including the capture of the Reichstag. It concludes with moving scenes of soldiers returning home and the June 1945 Red Square Victory Parade.
Notes
  • Archive Reference: N-507005.
  • Sponsored by Soviet Central Television.
Creation/​Production credits
  • Contributors: Drobashenko, Sergei.
  • Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
Original version
Reproduction of: Весна победы USSR, 1985.
Source of description
Description based on online resource (viewed on 16 June, 2017).
Other title(s)
Socialism on film. Module I, Wars and revolutions.
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