"Liberation: The Direction of the Main Strike" - film (1971). Actors and roles

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A lot of films have been shot about the Great Patriotic War, which show the cost of our country's victory in the terrible battle against fascism. One of these films is the epic "Liberation", directed by Yuri Ozerov.

Epic "Liberation"

Work on the film "Liberation: Direction of the Main Strike" lasted for six years, four countries took part in the filming: the USSR, Italy, Poland and Germany. The script for the film was created by writers Yuri Bondarev and Oscar Kurganov. Most of the film crew are people who went through the war: both the director and the cameraman, and both screenwriters and editors. The film epic "Liberation" consists of 5 films: "Arc of Fire" (1968), "Breakthrough" (1969), "Direction of the Main Strike" (1970), "Battle for Berlin" (1971), "Last Assault" (1971).

Liberation: Directionmain strike

"The direction of the main blow" is the third part of the epic movie. The events of the film begin on the third day of the November conference in Tehran, in which Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill take part. The main outcome of the meeting was the decision to open a second front by May 1944. In the spring of 1944, at Stalin's headquarters, it was decided to launch an offensive operation, choosing the wooded and swampy places of Belarus for the offensive. This decision was based on the fact that through Belarus the shortest way to Berlin. The operation, at the suggestion of the commander in chief, was called "Bagration". The command of the operation, which began on June 23, was entrusted to Marshal Zhukov and Generals Vatutin and Rokossovsky. An offensive began on several fronts, and by August 29, 1944, Belarus was completely liberated from German troops. A group of German officers, realizing that the war is lost, is trying to remove Hitler by carrying a briefcase with a bomb into the hall where the meeting is being held. Their attempt ended in failure, the plot was exposed, and the conspirators were shot.

Actors in the film

Selection of actors for the roles in the film "Liberation: The Direction of the Main Strike" (1971) was not an easy task, because all the prototypes of the characters were alive, it was important for them how they would look on the screen. The director was required not only to find an actor for the main role, but also to obtain consent from the prototype for this actor to play him in the epic. However, in the film"Liberation: The Direction of the Main Strike" (1971) the actors are excellently chosen, and the roles are superbly played. The troops of the Belarusian Military District, a group of Soviet troops in Germany, the B altic Fleet and the Polish troops took part in the mass and battle scenes.

Real historical characters in the movie

There are 28 real historical characters in the film "Liberation: The Direction of the Main Strike". Let's start with the main characters - Stalin and Hitler.

The role of Joseph Vissarionovich went to the Georgian actor Bukhuti Zakariadze. Many critics were not happy with the choice of the director, as, in their opinion, there was no portrait resemblance to the leader, but Buhuti played the role perfectly, creating the image of a man under whose leadership one of the bloodiest wars in history was won.

Ozerov had no doubts who to invite for the role of Hitler in the 1971 film "Liberation: The Direction of the Main Strike" - German actor Fritz Dietz. Fritz did not agree for a long time, as he was already tired of this role, which he played several times in the theater and in the cinema. It took intervention at the level of heads of state to get the consent of the artist. Dietz believed that this role simply haunts him all his life. By the way, Fritz Dietz himself was an anti-fascist.

Famous clown and trainer Yuri Durov got the role of Churchill. This is not his first film work, in 1968 he starred in the film "Parade-alle" as a trainer. Durov played Churchill twice: in the epic"Liberation" and in the 1993 film "Tragedy of the Century".

The role of Zhukov was played by the already popular actor Mikhail Ulyanov. Ulyanov initially refused the role outright, and only after the director assured that his candidacy was approved by the marshal himself, he decided to act.

Stanisław Yaskevich, a popular actor in Poland, played the role of US President Roosevelt in the 1971 film "Liberation: The Direction of the Main Strike". The same role went to him in the 1977 film "Soldiers of Freedom".

Other actors and roles

Nikolai Olyalin - actor in the film "Liberation: Direction of the Main Strike" (1971), who played the role of Captain Tsvetaev. It was his first film work. The role turned out to be so convincing that the front-line soldiers treated Olyalin as a comrade-in-arms. He not only played a role, but lived it on the screen.

Many viewers remember the role of Jacques, a French pilot from the Normandie-Niemen squadron, who died in the first air battle. This role was played by Lev Prygunov, already known by that time from the films "Outpost of Ilyich" and "I'm going into a thunderstorm." The artist is still acting in films.

German actor Alfred Struve was invited to play the role of the main conspirator Colonel Stauffenberg, who led Operation Valkyrie.

There are many more interesting acting works in the film: Larisa Golubkina as Zoya, Vladlen Davydov as Rokossovsky, Vasily Shukshin as Konev, Nikolai Rybnikov as Panov. It is impossible to tell about everyone.

Thanks to the high professionalism of the actors, the excellent script and the talented director and camera work, the epic "Liberation" has become one of the best films about the war, unparalleled in world cinema.