The Third Blow

Третий удар

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.

Director

Ihor Savchenko

Screenplay

Arkadi Perventsev

Status

Released

Release date

26/04/1948

Original language

Russian