Liberation: The Fire Bulge

Status:
Released
Production:
DDL Cinematografica
Aired:
1970-05-07
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
Drama
War
Characters

Nikolay Olyalin
Tsvetaev

Larisa Golubkina
Zoya

Boris Zajdenberg
Capt. Orlov

Sergey Nikonenko
Sashka

Vsevolod Sanayev
Lukin

Vladimir Samoylov
Gromov

Yuri Kamornyj
Vasilev

Valeriy Nosik
Dorozhkin

Jan Englert
Janek Wolny

Viktor Avdyushko
Maksimov

Igor Ozerov
Leontyev

Mikhail Ulyanov
Gen. Zhukov

Vladlen Davydov
Gen. Rokossovsky

Evgeni Burenkov
Gen. Vasilevsky

Sergei Kharchenko
Gen. Vatutin

Vladislav Strzhelchik
Gen. Antonov

Mykola Rushkovsky
Gen. Moskalenko

Dmytro Franko
Gen. Rybalko

Konstantin Zabelin
General Mikhail Katukov

Bukhuti Zakariadze
Josef Stalin

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz
Roosevelt
Yury Durov
Churchill

Fritz Diez
Adolf Hitler

Ivo Garrani
Mussolini
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Siegfried Weiß
Erich von Manstein

Hannjo Hasse
General Fieldmarshal Günther von Kluge

Peter Sturm
Generaloberst Walter Model

Florin Piersic
Otto Skorzeny

Artyom Karapetyan
Narrator (voice)

Tõnu Aav
German officer in a concentration camp

Voldemārs Akurāters
Captain William Stewart

Aleksandr Barushnoy
Alan Brooke

Viktor Baykov
Vyacheslav Molotov

Nikolai Bogolyubov
Kliment Voroshilov

Georgi Burkov
Sergeant

Werner Dissel
Alfred Jodl

Yuriy Dubrovin
messenger sent to Leontyev

Nikolay Eryomenko
Josip Broz Tito

Olev Eskola
Arthur von Christman

Horst Giese
Bruno Fermella
Horst Gill
Otto Günsche

Pyotr Glebov
Pavel Rotmistrov

Ioseb Gogichaishvili
Yakov Dzhugashvili

Valentin Grachyov

Cezary Julski
Roman Khomyatov
German translator who shot Major Maximov

Yuriy Kireev
orderly
Hans-Hartmut Krüger
General Hans Krebs
Hans Ulrich Laufer
Gustav Schmidt

Yuri Leonidov
Major, commander of an infantry battalion from the Rybalko army

Fred Mahr
Sepp Dietrich

Heino Mandri

Yury Martynov
Gromov's adjutant

Peter Marx
Theodor Busse

Grigory Mikhaylov
Mikhail Malinin

Ivan Mykolaichuk
Savchuk
Yuri Pomerantsev
General Andrei Vlasov
Kleon Protasov
Sergei Matveevich Shtemenko
Viktor Shakhov
Gorokhov

Pyotr Shcherbakov
Gen. Telegin

Valerian Vinogradov

Yuri Vyshinsky

Vladimir Protasenko
Nikolai Vatutin