Soldiers of Freedom

Soldiers of Freedom (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
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

 * Mikhail Ulyanov - Marshal Zhukov
 * Mircea Septilici - judge
 * 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