The Battle of Stalingrad

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The Battle of Stalingrad

1949

3h 3m

3.4(8 votes)

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A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.

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Михаил Астангов

Adolf Hitler

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Николай Черкасов

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Алексей Дикий

Josef Stalin

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Борис Ливанов

Lt. Gen. Rokossovsky

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Василий Меркурьев

Col. Gen. Voronov

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Николай Симонов

Lt. Gen. Churkov

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Владимир Гайдаров

Gen. Von Paulus

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Борис Смирнов

Lieutenant Kaleganov

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Виктор Станицын

Gen. Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin / Winston Churchill

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Борис Добронравов

Stalin's old comrade

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Владимир Уральский

Potapov, worker

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Николай Колесников

Andrey Ivanovich Yeremenko

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Максим Штраух

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov

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Виктор Хохряков

Georgiy Maksimilianovich Malenkov

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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beriya

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Николай Дорохин

Nikita Khrushchev

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Владимир Соловьёв

Mikhail Ivanovich Kaligin

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Юрий Толубеев

Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhdanov

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Николай Рыжов

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich

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Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan

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Михаил Державин

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov

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Gavriil Belov

Party delegate

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Юрий Шумский

Gen. Aleksand Mikhailovich Vasilevsky

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Василий Орлов

Gen. Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov

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Sergey Brzhevskiy

Gen. Aleksandr Ilyich Rodimtsev

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Николай Плотников

Gurov

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Леонид Князев

Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov

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Владимир Головин

Gen. Nikolay Fyodorovich Vatutin

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Алексей Краснопольский

Gen. Nikolay Ivanovich Trufanov

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Михаил Названов

Col. Ivan Ilyich Lyunikov

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Николай Крючков

Lieutenant Ivanov

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Александр Антонов

Lieutenant Popov

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Nikolay Rayevskiy

Kerr

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Константин Михайлов

Ambassador William Averell Harriman

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Павел Массальский

American journalist

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Николай Комиссаров

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

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Борис Свобода

Field Marshal Alfred Jodl

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Владимир Всеволодов

Gen. Schmidt

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Евгений Калужский

Col. Wilhelm Adam

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Nikolay Nikolayevskiy

Col. Wilhelm Adam

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Vladimir Chernyavskiy

Gen. Kurt Zeitler

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Ростислав Плятт

Gen. Hermann Goth

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Пётр Аржанов

Gen. Stanescu

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Юрий Левитан

Narrator (voice)

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Александр Крюков

Bit part (uncredited)

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Mikhail Garkavi

Bit part (uncredited)

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Semyon Khmelnitskiy

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Poskrebyshev (uncredited)

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Николай Хрящиков

Bit part (uncredited)

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Софья Пилявская

Woman with child (uncredited)

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Андрей Пунтус

Boyets (uncredited)

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Semen Svashenko

Tank commander (uncredited)

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Зоя Толбузина

Medsestra (uncredited)

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Михаил Воробьёв

Bit part (uncredited)

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Виктор Бубнов

(uncredited)

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Фёдор Григорьев

Nikita Khrushchev

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