On the Way to Berlin

On the Way to Berlin (Russian: На пути в Берлин) is a 1969 Soviet World War II film directed by Mikhail Yershov.

On the Way to Berlin
Russian: На пути в Берлин
Directed by	Mikhail Yershov
Written by	Yuriy Chulyukin Kirill Rapoport Boris Vasilev
Starring	Vasiliy Krasnov Nikolay Trofimov Gennadi Karnovich-Valua Stepan Krylov Yuri Fisenko
Cinematography	Viktor Karasyov Nikolai Zhilin
Edited by	Lyudmila Pechieva
Music by	Venyamin Basner
Release date	1969 (1969)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

The movie is based on Two in the Steppe, a story by the famous Soviet veteran writer Emmanuil Kazakevich and war diaries by Konstantin Simonov. 1942. A military tribunal is investigating the actions of an arrested inexperienced young lieutenant Ogarkov. Officer Ivan Sinyayev, who was on a mission together with Ogarkov, thinks that Ogarkov showed cowardice. The military court sentences Ogarkov to be shot. Private Dzhurabayev is to guard the detainee until the execution of the sentence. Suddenly the Germans enter the village, breaking through the defenses. Dzhurabayev takes the only right decision - to break through to his troops together with Ogarkov. And now a guard and a prisoner are walking along the military roads, engaging in random battles as equals. They cover themselves with the same overcoat, eat from the same tin. A silent, impossible friendship develops between them...

Cast

• Vasiliy Krasnov as Aleksey Petrov
• Nikolay Trofimov as Ivan Zaytsev
• Gennadi Karnovich-Valua as Sergey Konovalov
• Stepan Krylov as Council of War Member
• Yuri Fisenko as Tolya
• Sergey Dvoretskiy as Volodya Kravchenko
• Geliy Sysoev as Krutikov
• Nikolay Kuzmin as Gabidullin
• Pavel Pervushin as Pyotr Lukich
• Mikhail Yekaterininsky as Leonid Sergeyevich
• Nikolai Fyodortsov as Battalion Commander (as Nikolay Fedortsov)

External links

• On the Way to Berlin at IMDb