Liberation: The Fire Bulge
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
Nikolay Olyalin
Tsvetaev
Larisa Golubkina
Zoya
Boris Zajdenberg
Capt. Orlov
Sergey Nikonenko
Sashka
Vsevolod Sanayev
Lukin
Vladimir Samoylov
Gromov
Yuri Kamornyj
Vasilev
Valeriy Nosik
Dorozhkin
Jan Englert
Janek Wolny
Viktor Avdyushko
Maksimov
Igor Ozerov
Leontyev
Mikhail Ulyanov
Gen. Zhukov
Vladlen Davydov
Gen. Rokossovsky
Evgeni Burenkov
Gen. Vasilevsky
Sergei Kharchenko
Gen. Vatutin
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Gen. Antonov
Mykola Rushkovsky
Gen. Moskalenko
Dmytro Franko
Gen. Rybalko
Konstantin Zabelin
General Mikhail Katukov
Bukhuti Zakariadze
Josef Stalin
Stanisław Jaśkiewicz
Roosevelt
Yury Durov
Churchill
Fritz Diez
Adolf Hitler
Ivo Garrani
Mussolini
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Siegfried Weiß
Erich von Manstein
Hannjo Hasse
General Fieldmarshal Günther von Kluge
Peter Sturm
Generaloberst Walter Model
Florin Piersic
Otto Skorzeny
Artyom Karapetyan
Narrator (voice)
Tõnu Aav
German officer in a concentration camp
Voldemārs Akurāters
Captain William Stewart
Aleksandr Barushnoy
Alan Brooke
Viktor Baykov
Vyacheslav Molotov
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Kliment Voroshilov
Georgi Burkov
Sergeant
Werner Dissel
Alfred Jodl
Yuriy Dubrovin
messenger sent to Leontyev
Nikolay Eryomenko
Josip Broz Tito
Olev Eskola
Arthur von Christman
Horst Giese
Bruno Fermella
Horst Gill
Otto Günsche
Pyotr Glebov
Pavel Rotmistrov
Ioseb Gogichaishvili
Yakov Dzhugashvili
Valentin Grachyov
Cezary Julski
Roman Khomyatov
German translator who shot Major Maximov
Yuriy Kireev
orderly
Hans-Hartmut Krüger
General Hans Krebs
Hans Ulrich Laufer
Gustav Schmidt
Yuri Leonidov
Major, commander of an infantry battalion from the Rybalko army
Fred Mahr
Sepp Dietrich
Heino Mandri
Yury Martynov
Gromov's adjutant
Peter Marx
Theodor Busse
Grigory Mikhaylov
Mikhail Malinin
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Savchuk
Yuri Pomerantsev
General Andrei Vlasov
Kleon Protasov
Sergei Matveevich Shtemenko
Viktor Shakhov
Gorokhov
Pyotr Shcherbakov
Gen. Telegin
Valerian Vinogradov
Yuri Vyshinsky
Vladimir Protasenko
Nikolai Vatutin
Igor Slabnevich
Director of Photography
Yuri Ozerov
Director
Yuri Bondarev
Writer
Bohdan Czeszko
Story Consultant
Zbigniew Załuski
Story Consultant
Oskar Kurganov
Writer
Yuri Ozerov
Writer
Dino De Laurentiis
Producer
Lidija Kanarejkina
Producer
Yuriy Levitin
Original Music Composer
Ekaterina Karpova
Editor
Aleksandr Myagkov
Production Design
Dilyara Ozerova
Costume Design
Zbigniew Kociuba
Assistant Director
Julius Kun
Assistant Director