Film
The Turning Point
SU- Director
- Fridrikh Ermler
- Year
- 1945
The film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For five months, the city resisted the Nazi offensive. Surrendering Stalingrad to the enemy would have meant losing the war, but holding on to the city seemed almost impossible.
Top cast
Mikhail Derzhavin
General Muravyov
Pyotr Andriyevsky
General Vinogradov
Yuriy Tolubeev
Lavrov
Andrei Abrikosov
General Krivenko
Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
General Panteleyev
Nikolai Korn
General-major
S. Rakhmanin
Chied of front intelligence
Mark Bernes
Minutka, driver
Vladimir Maryev
Lieutenant Fyodorov
Pavel Volkov
Stepan
Mikhail Devyatkin
General Studentsov (uncredited)
Galina Iniutina
Liza Muravyova (uncredited)
Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Bon Klaus
Nikolai Stepanov
Stepan's comrade (uncredited)
Fedor Fedorovski
(uncredited)
Lidiya Shtykan
Nyura (uncredited)
Alexey Yan
Arrested german officer (uncredited)
Directed by
Fridrikh Ermler
Written by
Boris Chirskov
Produced by
Sergey Vasilev