The Third Blow (1948)
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.
- Released
- 1948-04-26
- Genres
- War, History
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ihor Savchenko
- TMDB rating
- 4.3/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Ivan Pereverzev as General Yakov Kreizer
- Mark Bernes as Sailor Chmega
- Mikhail Astangov as General Erwin Jaenecke
- Nikolai Bogolyubov as Kliment Voroshilov
- Yuri Lavrov as Myustegib Fagil
- Sergei Martinson as Adolf Hitler
- Aleksey Dikiy as Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
- Viktor Stanitsyn as F. I. Tolbukhin
- Mikhail Romanov as Alexey Antonov
- Vladimir Batalov as Arzhanov, soldier of general Nevzorov's corps
- Yurii Shumskyi as Marshal Vasilevskiy
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