The Third Blow
6.6
On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.
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Ivan Pereverzev
General Yakov Kreizer
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Mark Bernes
Sailor Chmega
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Mikhail Astangov
General Erwin Jaenecke
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Nikolai Bogolyubov
Kliment Voroshilov
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Yuri Lavrov
Myustegib Fagil
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Oleksa Dovbush
Sergei Martinson
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Aleksey Dikiy
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
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Viktor Stanitsyn
F. I. Tolbukhin
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Mikhail Romanov
Alexey Antonov
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Vladimir Batalov
Arzhanov, soldier of general Nevzorov's corps
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Yurii Shumskyi
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Benya Krik
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Ihor Savchenko Director · Arkadi Perventsev Writer Mikhail Kirillov Cinematographer
First release April 26, 1948 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Kievskaya Kinostudiya
Production
Dovzhenko Film Studios
Production
Kievskaya Kinostudiya
Production
Russia · Russia
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Languages
Original title
Третий удар
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · April 26, 1948
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
XC
January 21, 1949 · Theatrical
October 3, 1954 · TV · ČST
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