Just released: "The Fall of Berlin" ( International Historic Films). Produced in 1949 for Stalin's 70th Birthday, and it shows. The director feared for his life, but turned out a lavish and self-serving slice of revisionist cinema for Uncle Joe . You are not left to wonder what Stalin's true feelings were about about the Western Allies...Churchill in particular. Stalin is projected as a kindly father-figure to his people, and the architect of the final victory, rather than the murdering despot he really was...who cost the Soviets dearly in 1941, when he was too parallyzed with fear to react to the German invasion. The part that really got my goat in this movie was when one of Stalin's aides runs into the room to announce "The Americans have refused to attack Berlin!" I will watch ANY movie about WWII once!
Jim