Show Drama War & Politics
The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.
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Vyacheslav Ezepov Evgeny Novikov Yakov Tripolskiy Bruno Freindlich Vladimir Tkachenko Victor Zozulin Anatoly Nikitin Leonid Evtifiev Viktor Shulgin Aleksandr Voyevodin Petr Glebov Vitaliy Rozstalny Juozas Budraitis Achim Petry Igor Klass Emmanuil Vitorgan Nikolay Zasukhin Leonid Kulagin Stepan Mikoyan Lev Prygunov Gennady Sayfulin Mikhail Ulyanov Vladimir Troshin Aleksandr Filippenko Erwin Knausmüller Irina Shmeleva Irina Gubanova Kostiantyn Stepankov Gennadi Frolov Nikolay Ivanov Vasili Korzun Aleksandr Goloborodko Nikolay Kryuchkov Rostislav Yankovsky Andrey Martynov Dmitriy Orlovskiy Vladimir Ferapontov Nikolai Volkov Ml. Aleksandr Martynov Boris Shcherbakov Valeri Yurchenko Romualds Ancāns Vladimir Kuznetsov Yuri Kuzmenko Alexander Pankratov-Chorny Vladimir Shirokov Boris Gusakov Yuri Gusev Vladimir Zemlyanikin Igor Kashintsev Vadim Ledogorov Mikk Mikiver Olegar Fedoro Valeriy Barinov Vyacheslav Gurenkov Yana Druz Klavdiya Kozlyonkova Victor Glushchenko Ivan Agafonov Vyacheslav Tikhonov Artyom Karapetyan Daniil Netrebin Sergey Beloshnikov Inna Vykhodtseva Oleg Shtefanko Leonid Yevtifyev
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