Soldiers of Freedom

{{Short description|1977 film by Yuri Ozerov}} {{Infobox film | name = Soldiers of Freedom | image = Soldiers_of_Freedom.jpg | alt = | caption = Original Bulgarian film poster | director = Yuri Ozerov<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.radio.cz/ru/rubrika/mozaika/barrandov-v-roli-krasnogo-gollivuda |title=«Баррандов» в роли «Красного Голливуда» |access-date=2019-07-31 |archive-date=2018-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707105457/http://www.radio.cz/ru/rubrika/mozaika/barrandov-v-roli-krasnogo-gollivuda |url-status=live }}</ref> | producer = | writer = Oscar Kurganov | starring = Mikhail Ulyanov<br>Yevgeny Matveyev<br> Vasily Lanovoy | music = Yuri Levitin | cinematography = Igor Slabnevich | editing = | studio = Mosfilm | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1977}} | runtime = 599 minutes | country = Soviet Union | language = Russian | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Soldiers of Freedom''''' ({{langx|ru|Солдаты свободы|Soldaty svobody}}) is a four-part 1977 film epic directed by Yuri Ozerov and starring Mikhail Ulyanov, Yevgeny Matveyev, Vasily Lanovoy. It is a World War II historical drama and the sequel to 1970-71's ''Liberation''.

==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''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mircea Șeptilici|url=https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/euro/267570/works/|work=kino-teatr.ru}}</ref> *Yevgeny Matveyev as ''Leonid Brezhnev''<ref name="sovross">''Фёдор Раззаков''. [http://sovross.ru/articles/15/519 Солдаты свободы. К 30-летию выхода на экраны киноэпопеи Юрия Озерова] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207163532/http://sovross.ru/articles/15/519}} // Газета «Советская Россия», 12 апреля 2007 года</ref> *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''

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0076736}} *[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/6636/annot/ ''Soldiers of Freedom'' at the Kino-teatr.ru] {{in lang|ru}}

Category:1977 films Category:1977 war films Category:1970s war drama films Category:1970s historical drama films Category:1977 Soviet films Category:1977 Russian-language films Category:Soviet war drama films Category:Soviet historical drama films Category:Soviet epic films Category:Soviet World War II films Category:Mosfilm films Category:Films set in 1942 Category:Films set in 1943 Category:Films set in 1944 Category:Films set in 1945 Category:Films directed by Yuri Ozerov Category:Czech resistance to Nazi occupation in film Category:Films set in Yugoslavia during World War II Category:Cultural depictions of Joseph Stalin Category:Cultural depictions of Leonid Brezhnev Category:Films about Adolf Hitler Category:Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill Category:Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt Category:Cultural depictions of Georgy Zhukov Category:Cultural depictions of Josip Broz Tito Category:Films about Polish resistance during World War II Category:Works about the Warsaw Uprising Category:Russian-language war drama films Category:Russian-language historical drama films Category:1970s epic films