Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.

Nikolay Olyalin

(Tsvetaev)

Larisa Golubkina

(Zoya)

Boris Zajdenberg

(Orlov)

Mikhail Ulyanov

(Zhukov)

Vladlen Davydov

(Rokossovsky)

Evgeni Burenkov

(Vasilevsky)

Vladislav Strzhelchik

(Antonov)

Vasiliy Shukshin

(Konev)

Sergei Kharchenko

(Vatutin)

Evgeny Kolchinsky

(Chernyakhovsky)

Viktor Kosenko

(Meretskov)

Valeriy Karen

(Bagramyan)

Klyon Protasov

(Shtemenko)

Vladimir Zamanskiy

(Batov)

Nikolai Rybnikov

(Panov)

Bukhuti Zakariadze

(Stalin)

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz

(Roosevelt)

Yury Durov

(Churchill)

Fritz Diez

(Hitler)

Erich Thiede

(Himmler)

Horst Giese

(Goebbels)

Gerd Michael Henneberg

(Keitel)

Hannjo Hasse

(Kluge)

Peter Sturm

(Model)

H. Scheltzke

(Fromm)

Hinrich Köhn

(Remer)

Alfred Struwe

(Stauffenberg)

Wilfried Ortmann

(Olbricht)

Hans-Edgar Stecher

(Haeften)

Werner Wieland

(Beck)

Otto Dierichs

(Witzleben)

Yevgeni Shutov

(partisan, father)

Victor Vakhlin

(partisan, son)

Lev Prygunov

(Jacques, pilot)

Vladimir Razumovskiy

(Zaitsev, pilot)

Wieńczysław Gliński

('Blacksmith')

Maciej Nowakowski

(Aleksander Zawadzki)

Tadeusz Schmidt

(Berling)

Erno Bertoli

(French pilot)

J.-P. Izhezhen

(French pilot)

B. Raffali

(French pilot)

A. Sentonz

(French pilot)

B. White

(English ambassador)

Artyom Karapetyan

(narrator (voice))

Vladimir Anisko

Elizaveta Alekseeva

O. Alennikov

Iren Azer

(Tanechka)

Viktor Baykov

(Vyacheslav Molotov)

Aleksandr Barushnoy

(Alan Brooke)

Vladimir Bogatkin

Nikolai Bogolyubov

(Kliment Voroshilov)

Viktor Volkov

Vyacheslav Voronin

Pyotr Glebov

(Rotmistrov)

Aleksey Glazyrin

(Panteleimon Ponomarenko)

Valentin Grachyov

(Anatoliy Golbov)

Nikolai Gres

Yuri Yemelyanov

Vladimir Kashpur

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

S. Kuzmichev

Yulian Kozlovskiy

Nikolai Lebedev

Sergey Malishevskiy

Grigory Mikhaylov

Georgi Rybakov

Nikolay Serebrennikov

Aleksandr Smirnov

S. Sodeiko

Anatoliy Solovyov

Aleksandr Titov

Evgeny Felgenhauer

A. Shkarovsky

Fred Alexander

(Elyesa Bazna)

Max Bernhardt

Manfred Bendik

Paul Berndt

Regina Beyer

Ralf Böhmke

(Adolf Hamann)

Horst Gill

(Otto Günsche)

Erich Gerberding

(Ernst Busch)

Werner Dissel

(Alfred Jodl)

Rolf Losansky

G. Maynokat

Jiří Papež

Rolf Ripperger

Ulrich Teschner

F. Efechner

R. Hyman

Ernst-Georg Schwill

Willi Schrade

Nikolay Pogodin

((uncredited))

Herbert Körbs

((uncredited))

Fritz Ernst Fechner

((uncredited))