Summary
On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.
Good for
- Friends night
- Teens
- Thought-provoking
Skip it if
- You want something to laugh at
- Graphic violence bothers you
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 66GoodWatch 55
IMDb6.6
Running time
1 h 46 min
A typical length for war movies, −12 min on the typical 118
typical 118106Half of all war movies run 103–135 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1948
April 26, 1948
78 years ago
Genres
WarHistoryLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
Rated
No age rating yet.
What's in it
- ViolenceStrong
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesMild
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightIntergenerationalPartner WatchPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
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Ivan PereverzevGeneral Yakov Kreizer
Mark BernesSailor Chmega
Mikhail AstangovGeneral Erwin Jaenecke
Nikolai BogolyubovKliment Voroshilov
Yuri LavrovMyustegib Fagil
Sergei MartinsonAdolf Hitler
Aleksey DikiyIosif Vissarionovich Stalin
Viktor StanitsynF. I. Tolbukhin
Mikhail RomanovAlexey Antonov
Vladimir BatalovArzhanov, soldier of general Nevzorov's corps
Yurii ShumskyiMarshal Vasilevskiy
Directing · 6
- Ihor Savchenko Director
- Isaak Shmaruk Assistant Director
- Sulamif Tsybulnik Second Assistant Director
- A. Golovanov First Assistant Director
- Ya. Okrent Second Assistant Director
- Viktor Konarsky First Assistant Director
Writing · 1
- Arkadi Perventsev Writer
Production · 3
- L. Nezguretskiy Executive Producer
- Leonid Koretskiy Executive Producer
- Naum Vaintrob Executive Producer
Camera · 5
- Mikhail Kirillov Director of Photography
- Aleksey Mishurin Camera Operator
- Yuriy Razumov Camera Operator
- A. Koloshin Camera Operator
- Oleksandr Pyshchykov Camera Operator
Editing · 1
- Varvara Bondina Editor
Sound · 4
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Music
- Natan Rakhlin Conductor
- Oleksandr Babiy Sound Director
- N. Mina Sound Director
Art · 2
- Levan Shengelia Production Design
- Morits Umanskiy Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 3
- Yekaterina Gakkebush Costume Design
- Anton Andzhan Makeup Artist
- L. Gorokhovskiy Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 5
- Vladimir Nikitchenko VFX Artist
- P. Prikhodko Pyrotechnic Supervisor
- B. Lerner VFX Director of Photography
- Ivan Nikitchenko VFX Artist
- N. Suprun Pyrotechnic Supervisor
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