Liberation (film series)

Liberation
Original film poster
Directed by	Yuri Ozerov
Screenplay by	Yuri Bondarev Oscar Kurganov Yuri Ozerov
Produced by	Lidia Kanareikina
Starring	Nikolay Olyalin Larisa Golubkina Boris Seidenberg
Narrated by	Artyom Karapetian
Cinematography	Igor Slabnevich (70 mm)
Edited by	Ekaterina Karpova
Music by	Yuri Levitin
Production companies	Mosfilm DEFA-Babelsberg ZF-Start (films I, II) Zespoły Filmowe (III-V) Avala Film (I) Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
Release dates	I, II: 7 May 1970 III: 31 July 1971 IV, V : 5 November 1971
Running time	477 minutes (original) 445 minutes (remastered 2002 version) Part I: 88 minutes Part II: 85 minutes Part III: 122 minutes Part IV: 79 minutes Part V: 71 minutes
Countries	Soviet Union East Germany Poland Yugoslavia Italy
Languages	Russian, German, English, Polish, Italian, French, Serbo-Croatian

Liberation (Russian: Освобождение, translit. Osvobozhdenie, German: Befreiung, Polish: Wyzwolenie) is a film series released in 1970 and 1971, directed by Yuri Ozerov and shot in wide-format NIKFI process (70 mm). The script was written by Yuri Bondarev and Oscar Kurganov. The series was a Soviet-Polish-East German-Italian-Yugoslav co-production.

The films are a dramatized account of the liberation of the Soviet Union's territory and the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, focusing on five major Eastern Front campaigns: the Battle of Kursk, the Lower Dnieper Offensive, Operation Bagration, the Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin.