The Fall of Berlin (film)
The Fall of Berlin is a 1950 Soviet war and propaganda film, in two parts separated in the manner of a serial. It was produced by Mosfilm Studio and directed by Mikheil Chiaureli, with a script written by Pyotr Pavlenko and a musical score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. Portraying the history of the Second World War with a focus on a highly positive depiction of the role Soviet leader Joseph Stalin played in the events, it is considered one of the most important manifestations of Stalin's cult of personality, and a noted example of Soviet realism. After De-Stalinization, the film was banned in the Eastern Bloc for several decades.
A 1950 poster of the film.
Vladimir Savelyev and Marie Nováková as Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
Mosfilm is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production Dersu Uzala and War and Peace.
A 2024 stamp of Russia dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Mosfilm, featuring its post-2012 logo
Old Mosfilm logo
Entrance sign to Mosfilm Studios in Mosfilmovskaya Street.
Entrance to Mosfilm Studios with a large clapperboard sign at left