The Third Blow

War, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Ihor Savchenko

Status Released

Release Date 1948-04-26

Storyline

On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.