Soldiers of Freedom

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 as Marshal Zhukov

Mircea Șeptilici as judge

Yevgeny Matveyev as Leonid Brezhnev

Vasily Lanovoy as Andrei Grechko

Stefan Getsov as Georgi Dimitrov

Viktor Avdyushko as Marshal Ivan Konev

Bohus Pastorek as Klement Gottwald

Horst Preusker as Wilhelm Pieck

Yakov Tripolsky as Joseph Stalin

Lubomir Kabakchiyev as Palmiro Togliatti

Boris Belov as Maurice Thorez

Peter Stefanou as Todor Zhivkov

Vladlen Davydov as Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky

Károly Ujlaky as János Kádár

Miklós Benedek as Gen. Ludvík Svoboda

Anton Gorchev as Dobri Dzhurov

Violeta Bahchevanova as Roza Dimitrova

Valentin Kazancki as Winston Churchill

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Naum Shopov as Tzar Boris III

Fritz Diez as Adolf Hitler

Gerd Michael Henneberg as Wilhelm Keitel

Horst Gill as Otto Günsche

Pavel Popandov as Tzano Velchev

Valentin Gadzhokov as Atanas Hadzhiyanchev

Zlatko Pavlov as Zdravko

Nikolai Ouzounov as Tzvyatko

Zbigniew Józefowicz as Piotr Jaroszewicz

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko as Edward Gierek

Jerzy Turek

Constantin Fugașin as Nicolae Ceaușescu