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IT'S SENSATIONAL!
A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Moscow (October 1941 – January 1942), when Red Army forces repelled the German advance on the capital. Shot by numerous frontline cameramen, it combines harrowing footage of combat and civilian suffering with scenes of Nazi atrocities, framed against themes of Russian heroism and cultural survival. Originally released under the title Defeat of the German Armies Near Moscow, the English-language version, narrated by Edward G. Robinson, was retitled Moscow Strikes Back. The film won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Warning: contains graphic images.
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The original title is Razgrom nemetskikh voysk pod Moskvoy.
Interesting to watch a Russian "documentary" from WWII. I think I never had. Of course in the end it is the same kind of propaganda and morale booster everyone else did. I know the Russians re-enacted stuff after battles for their movies. You see a lot of battle scenes but no actual battles. They show only captured or dead Germans. The camera is always steady, the pictures always sharp. A lot of the time it is filmed from very high angles in the open, probably from some kind of podest. But the biggest give away was a scene where you saw paratroopers jumping from planes with the narration claiming they were dropped behind enemy lines. And next you see them actually land so I guess the camera jumped behind enemy lines before ?? ;-) But as I said that's the kind of things all parties did. But you need keep in mind this is propaganda not documentation.