Liberation (film series)

Liberation is a film series released in 1970 and 1971 and directed by Yuri Ozerov. It is a dramatised account of the liberation of the territory of the Soviet Union and the later defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, and it focuses 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. The script was written by Yuri Bondarev and Oscar Kurganov. The films were shot in the wide-format NIKFI process on 70 mm film, and the series was a co-production among the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Italy and Yugoslavia. It is known in Russian as Osvobozhdenie, in German as Befreiung and in Polish as Wyzwolenie, which reflects that international reach.