Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault

"Liberation – Part 5: The Last Assault" (1971) — watch online on iFILM. May 1945: Soviet infantry push through Berlin's subway tunnels and rubble-filled streets toward the city center. Captain Neustroev's company is assigned to raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.

Ozerov filmed this final installment on location in East Berlin — in a central district condemned for demolition, where buildings could be blown up without restriction. The wrecked facades in the frame are not sets. Mikhail Ulyanov, Vasily Shukshin, and Mikhail Nozhin lead the cast.

The series ends not on a single climactic moment but on accumulation — block by block, floor by floor, the battle's cost comes into full view. Stream "Liberation: The Last Assault" (1971) online on iFILM.