The Third Blow
1948, Russian. Directed by Ihor Savchenko.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Ihor SavchenkoDirector
- Ivan PereverzevGeneral Yakov Kreizer
- Mark BernesSailor Chmega
- Mikhail AstangovGeneral Erwin Jaenecke
- Nikolai BogolyubovKliment Voroshilov
- Yuri LavrovMyustegib Fagil
- Sergei MartinsonAdolf Hitler
- Aleksey DikiyIosif Vissarionovich Stalin
- Viktor StanitsynF. I. Tolbukhin
- Mikhail RomanovAlexey Antonov
- Vladimir BatalovArzhanov, soldier of general Nevzorov's corps
- Yurii ShumskyiMarshal Vasilevskiy
Details
- Released
- 26 April 1948
- Original title
- Третий удар
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Arkadi Perventsev
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The Third Blow runs 106 minutes (1h 46m).
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The Third Blow isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 26 April 1948. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Third Blow?
The Third Blow (1948) was directed by Ihor Savchenko and stars Ivan Pereverzev, Mark Bernes, Mikhail Astangov.