Berlin: The Downfall 1945 Asian Cinema Shin Saburi plays Wataru Hirayama

Shin Saburi plays Wataru Hirayama

Extraordinary stories about Soviet children’s experiences in the Second World War

the lives of these four actors

and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who

sounds like it could have been recorded by a psychedelic rock band in Los Angeles in 1969

Berlin: The Downfall 1945 Asian Cinema Shin Saburi plays Wataru HirayamaThe Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing