Liberation (film series)

Liberation is a five-part soviet feature film series, released 1969-71, describing the main battles on the Eastern Front of WWII from Kursk to Berlin, as seen through the eyes of both the leaders and the common soldiers. Directed by Yuri Ozerov and Julius Kuhn, screenplay by Ozerov, Yuri Bondarev and Oscar Kurganov.

Adolf Hitler

• "Outstanding! With the first shot!"

-The very first spoken words in the films(Part I).

• "Prepare, prepare and again - Prepare!"

-Part I.

• "In Russia, we've raised an impenetrable barrier on the Dniepr!"

-Part II.

• "Churchill will never land in Normandy!"

-Part III.

• "Küstrin? Sixty kilometers from Berlin? This is betrayal. Infidelity!!! And betrayal!!!"

-Part IV.

• "Guderian, I think the state of your health requires that you'll resign!"

-Part IV.

Joseph Stalin

• "And what if our defenses won't stand in the face of the German onslaught, as they've done more than once, in 1941 and 1942? Can you guarantee that?"

-Part I.

• "Comrade Stalin, the Red Cross approached us again regarding Yakov..."

"I won't trade a Field-Marshal for a soldier!"

-Antonov and Stalin, Part I.

• "When could that operation begin?"

"No earlier than 20 November, Comrade Stalin."

"Kiev must be taken until 6 November, the eve to the anniversary of the Great October Revolution."

-Stalin and Antonov, Part II.

Georgy Zhukov

• "It would all begin in 0300... If you believe the prisoner."

-Part I.

• "Transmit: we demand an unconditional surrender. The ceasefire will start in fifteen minutes. Prisoners would be taken in the Brandenburg Gate. To all, we guarantee their life. To all... we guarantee their life."

-Part V.

Mikhail Katukov

• "If I would have believed in God, I would have crossed myself right now."

-Part I.

Captain Tzvetaev

• "Well, on the field lay ominous silence, as they write in the novels."

-Part I.

• "Orlov, your teeth hurt?"

-Part I.

Lt. Colonel Lukin

• "Again your teeth, Orlov?"

-Part II.

Major Orlov

• "I can't give birth to soldiers, understand? If someone talks about retreat, shoot him! Retreat to where?! If you'll run away, don't bother to stop until you reach Siberia. And if you have problems with that, go somewhere the soldiers won't see and shoot yourself! But shut up!

-Part II.

• "I congratulate you, Comrade General! Victory! Victory!"

-The last words spoken in the films, part V.

Sergeant Dorozhkin

• "Well, comrades, you're all free. You can go zu Hause! Zu Hause!"

-part IV.

• "Comrade Captain, I can't swim!"

-part V.

General Andrey Vlasov

• "What has remained of Europe? A strip of Russian soil, it's fate already sealed. Today, German troops broke the Soviet frontline in the so-called 'Kursk salient', and ten Soviet Armies have been encircled in a ring of fire. Bolshevik Russia will not withstand such a colossal blow anymore."

-In Sachsenhausen, Part I.

General Walter Model

• "I've heard that among Russian soldiers there's a common saying: where Zhukov is, there begins the offensive. Is that correct?"

-Part I.

• "Mein Führer, the Russians positioned four Tank Armies near my sector. I'm convinced they'll attack my front, in northern Ukraine."

-Part III.

• "In war, the is only one logic: the will to be victorious!"

-Part III.

Benito Mussolini

• "To kill me now would only make the difficulties greater."

-Part II.

• "This is the only successful operation ever carried out by the Italian General Staff."

-Part II.

Dialog

• "Where is your commanding officer?"

(Wolny spouts a string of Polish words).

"Have you understood him?"

"No, Comrade General!"

"Well, I did!"

-Katukov, his adjutant and Jan Wolny. Part I.

• "But, Comrade General, the battalions are engaged in heavy fighting!"

"There is heavy fighting every day in this war, Comrade Colonel. The battalions are to give the enemy the impression that the main crossing will be here, in this false bridgehead. The main blow would be struck in the southern one. Clear? Order the battalions to hold out to the last man."

-Golubov and Barsukov, Part II.

• "Are you the Soviet or the German commandant of Berlin?"

-German housewife answering Goebbels on the phone, Part V.

• "Excuse me, where's the toilet here?"

-Soviet telephone operator to Goebbels in the Führerbunker, Part V.

External links

• Liberation on IMDb.